While Agree with much, if not most, of what you're saying, I think you're not quite getting at all of the terrorism thing.
It's a fine line, moreso because of the PC tendency to need to not say anything bad about anyone in particular. There was *one* attack on US soil. If that were it, I think you'd be on target. But it wasn't. There have been attacks in England, Madrid, Indonedia... Iraq, whose terrorist attacks were previously held at bay only by that strongman Saddam Hussein. Then there's Lebanon, not just Hezbollah attacking Israel but terror attacks in the country itself. Not to mention Gaza and the West Bank. Oh, and I almost forgot Egypt. Go back a few more years and we have Yemen, and Italy. There is ONE thing that links all these acts, and it's not a tenuous link.
Exhortations to terror are being spouted by imams, are being shouted in houses to worship. They're being repeated by the official state-sponsored media of theocratic nations. Should we attack all these countries? Of course not. But should we pretend that they are our friends? THAT would be dangerous. The vast majority of terrorist action in the world today *is* Islamic terrorism. Sure, I wish it weren't so, but it's the fact, and we ignore it at our peril.
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Date: 2008-01-30 04:54 pm (UTC)It's a fine line, moreso because of the PC tendency to need to not say anything bad about anyone in particular. There was *one* attack on US soil. If that were it, I think you'd be on target. But it wasn't. There have been attacks in England, Madrid, Indonedia... Iraq, whose terrorist attacks were previously held at bay only by that strongman Saddam Hussein. Then there's Lebanon, not just Hezbollah attacking Israel but terror attacks in the country itself. Not to mention Gaza and the West Bank. Oh, and I almost forgot Egypt. Go back a few more years and we have Yemen, and Italy. There is ONE thing that links all these acts, and it's not a tenuous link.
Exhortations to terror are being spouted by imams, are being shouted in houses to worship. They're being repeated by the official state-sponsored media of theocratic nations. Should we attack all these countries? Of course not. But should we pretend that they are our friends? THAT would be dangerous. The vast majority of terrorist action in the world today *is* Islamic terrorism. Sure, I wish it weren't so, but it's the fact, and we ignore it at our peril.