Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:03:34 PM
Are we losing the war against Islamo-Nazism? No. But if we don't exhibit the political will to fight this evil then we just might.
And an element of that political will means that we have to stop dancing around the issue of what must be done to win this war. Andrew McCarthy notes, in his comment about the
Benazir Bhutto assassination,
"Jihadists are not going to be wished away, rule-of-lawed into
submission, or democratized out of existence. If you really want
democracy and the rule of law in places like Pakistan, you need to kill
the jihadists first. Or they’ll kill you, just like, today, they killed
Benazir Bhutto."
Instead of openly declaring war against the Islamo-Nazi Jihadists our politicians dance around the subject with talk of democratization. This is like talking about negotiation in the midst of the Palestinian war to destroy Israel. Democratization won't work, today, because the people who are popular, in places like Pakistan, are the jihadists. As McCarthy writes,
"A recent CNN
poll
showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden. ...
President George Bush, the face of a campaign to bring democracy ... to
the Islamic world, registered nine percent."
...
"Popular elections have not reformed Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in
Lebanon. Neither will they reform a place where Osama bin Laden wins
popular opinion polls and where the would-be reformers are bombed and
shot at until they die."
McCarthy goes on:
"Whether we get round to admitting it or not, in Pakistan [in Gaza, in Lebanon, in etc.], our quarrel
is with the people. Their struggle, literally, is jihad. For them,
freedom would mean institutionalizing the tyranny of Islamic
fundamentalism."
Did we pretend that we weren't at war with Germans or Japanese during WWII? I don't think so. So why now do we pretend that we are not at war with the people who show so so overwhelmingly support Islamo-Nazi Jihadist regimes?