Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Video Reveals the Enemy

The video of terrorists rigging explosives in and around children in a Russian school underscores the pure evil of fanatical Islam. No one is too innocent nor deed too dirty for these demons from hell. Hate is their reason, hate is their motivation and hate is what they want the rest of us to see. They want the world to know in no uncertain terms that if they had a nuclear weapon they would use it. They would fight to get in line to be the one to strap it on their backs and the losers of that contest would rejoice in the subsequent slaughter. This is the new reality. It is consistent and persistent. This is not a nut case and his buddy blowing up a building in Oklahoma. Nor is it the occasional lone gunman shooting up an office. This is the new fascism. These guys want to pick up in fear generation where the Nazis left off. Either join them or die.

So we have two choices. We can win or we can lose. Personally I choose win. I don’t know or pretend to know how that will happen. I choose win because the other choice is unacceptable. There will be no negotiation. This will be a battle to the finish. Even though the scale of death is not comparable to 9/11, the Russians now know what we have known. And that is, simply put; there is no getting out of this fight. So we can either bring it to them or wait for them to bring it to us. I prefer the former because the latter is going to happen anyway. If the civilized world wants an important cause to unite us all, this is it.

The people of every country on earth will have to decide how to react. Spain is attempting appeasement. France and Germany got in line behind Spain. Good luck to all of them. They are going to need it. We have to decide the same issues here in the United States. If we can get past the mid-70’s we might be able to discuss it.