The Iranians are backing every pony in this race, for what they want is chaos, and chaos is easy to create. We are pursuing a strategy based on creating order. Creating order in the Middle East is like pushing mud uphill.
It rather looks as if the only way Iraq can be ruled is the way Saddam ruled it: Rule by terror, artificial famine, mass murder, and mass state sponsored rape.
As I wrote when the attack on the Taliban was launched, it is easy to destroy our enemies, wherever they may be, but state building is hard, no one knows how to build states, and in recent time the trend is for states to fail. I recommend we abandon state building, and focus on destroying our enemies – including those enemies located in Saudi Arabia, Britain, and Germany.
The choice is not peace with defeat, or victory with endless and expensive war, rather the choice is what kind of endless war we shall fight. This war has been running from the massacre of the Jews of Medina by Muhammad, to the present day, with a brief one hundred and thirty year interruption from 1830 to 1960 caused by colonialist victory over the middle east. To keep the Middle East quiet during that colonial period required mass murder on a very large scale in the most troublesome spots and the frequent and credible threat of mass murder. Islam is a problem. The original message and example of Mohammed was that Muslims must pursue domination and exercise theocratic state power, thus solutions based on tolerance and separation of Church and State are inherently unworkable. We can only coexist with those versions of Islam that accept separation of Church and State – which very few do. Islam is not just another religion, just as the Communists were not just another political party.
If we are reluctant to commit genocide, and therefore unable to credibly threaten genocide, we cannot stop Islam from fighting us, thus must find ways to fight Islam that are less expensive than the way we are doing it now.
Yes, the enemy is Islam. Not radical Islam, not Islamofascism. “Moderate” Islam does exist, but is an insignificant minority, subject to almost as much repression by mainstream Islam as Christians, Jews, and apostates.
