A WAKE-UP CALL!
This letter appeared today in a Jonah Goldberg post on NRO's "The Corner." It is a warning. Unfortunately, the idea that Democrats will heed this warning are slim to none. The idea that Americans, in general, will heed this warning are even slimmer, if that is possible. They will be far more interested in protecting the delicate sensibilities of political correctness than they will be interested in protecting us from terrorists and extremists. These are dangerous times and to not understand our enemy is foolish and, in my humble opinion, catastrophic. I know that those who infest the fever swamps do not believe we face any danger. They leave comments here and all over the blogosphere accusing the President and our leaders of scare mongering. They live in their safe little worlds and think that because they can still go hang out at the Mall or buy their iPods, that all is safe. Those who actually know better and see the danger for what it is are not speaking up loudly enough. They have turned the enemy of all of us into political campaign rhetoric and this is as dangerous as the denial of the swampers is. Extremists don't care whether you voted a (D), an (R), an (I) an (L) a (G) or didn't vote at all. When they are ready, all are at the same risk. And dead is dead no matter who you campaigned for or who you voted for.
I served a quarter century in the AF (retired colonel) and a quarter century in the pages of National Review. Here’s what I think.
I believe good Democrats and good Republicans believed this war was going to end if their party won on election day. The Dems believed they'd end the war through withdrawal; the GOPers believed they'd end it through victory. They're both wrong. This war is going to go on for a long, long time.
It seems to me that Americans believe wars end when we say they end. Whether we win (WWII), lose (Vietnam), or draw (Korea), our wars have ended when we said they ended. The defeated Germans, victorious North Vietnamese, or stalemated North Koreans never came after America when hostilities ended. But the jihadists are coming, no matter what happens in Iraq. Make no mistake.
I was 21, and just about to start a 27-year relationship with the pages of NR, when the Iranian hostage crisis happened. I remember all the pronouncements from US leaders that they, and the American people, would have to get acquainted with the Quran to understand what all this revolutionary stuff was about. Now, all these years, I find that virtually no one in America has read the Quran or other holy books on the life of Mahommad. They have no idea that what we're seeing on TV—the Army of God (Hezbollah) attacks Israel; the regular practice of beheading; the spread of Sharia law; the brutalization of women; and the worldwide practice of actual jihad, not spiritual jihad, springs directly from those sacred texts, word for word.
I invite you to try a test with friends and family. I've done this with about 15 people in the last couple of weeks. Ask them to put the following three names in history, in the order in which they appeared: Jesus, Mohammad, Moses. I have been shocked at how many put Mohammad before Jesus, and even before Moses. I think the reason this happens is because Muslim countries look so much older on television! Now how could Americans understand Jihad, the Crusades, the relationship between the Bible and the Quran, or any thing they might hear that the Quran directs, without even understanding the historical sequence of the prophets?
With the Democrat victory, I hear a sigh of relief across the country that now we can bring this whole thing to a close. It is an illusion. Until we get into the animating texts of Islam, and do so publicly, loudly, and consistently, we will invite more violence, and abet the silence of moderate Muslims of goodwill around the world.I believe the leadership of this debate is the most urgent task to ever face the brave staff of National Review. You already led the debate on Communism, but then you remember Communism had few real adherents in Communist countries. Radical Islam has tens of millions of true believers. This will be harder.
Watch and learn.
Playlist: Obsession: Exposing Radical Islam
We
can pretend it doesnt exist, but that wont help. We can pretend it's
not our problem, but That wont help either. It's 1938 and Hitler wants
the Sudetenland. Do we give it to him...Again?
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Part 2 of the landmark Documentary film...How Radical Islamist Clerics are imbuing Arab Culture with Jihad
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Part
3 of the Documentary. Peeling another layer off the onion. Arab
Muslims, Ex-Muslims and Historians delve into the Radical Islamic
influence on the Media.
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