Shock and awe does work, unless the ancient laws of human existence have somehow magically been suspended.
Shock and awe has not been used in Pakistan, or many other places in the so called WOT. Pakistan’s efforts in that regard have been feckless at best, and even under Musharaf, our pressure to encourage him to fight seriously were constantly flouted and subverted. I accept that America, due to a grave misunderstanding of Islam, brought about largely by liars like Eteraz and other Muslim apologists who refuse to acknowledge the centrality of Islam to everything that’s going wrong in the Islamic world, has fought at cross purposes for our own goals to defeat Islamic terrorism. When we simultaneously urged Musharaf to fight the strands of fascism in Pakistan, and then chastised him for cracking down brutally on those fascists in his midst, our strategy was (and will remain) doomed to ultately fail. But it’s a grave distortion to blame us for the hideousness of Islam and the nastiness of engenders in the world. To the extent that we are guilty, it’s from our continuing ignorance, and our naive willingness to listen to the same army of Muslim deceiver who have led us so catastrophically astray for more than three decades. Eteraz is in that camp.
In short, as long as Islam remains intact, the terror will continue, and our war will never achieve success. But of course you’ll never hear that from the agents of Islam…
My criticism against Eteraz and his ilk is that they invest huge amounts of energy misleading Westerners about Islam. They peddle the lie that Islam isn’t the problem, and that political solutions, if allowed to proceed, will eventually lead us out of the valley of shadows.
How well has this recipe worked in Egypt? Turkey? Kuwait? Afghanistan? UK? Malaysia? Indonesia? Israel? Gaze? West Bank? Pakistan?
In virtually EVERY venue where Muslims are given access through the democratic political process, they have exploited the opportunity and chosen to install more anti-democratic Islam as a result. How is that good? How could that ever be construed as good, when we’re increasingly learning what Islam entails?
Eteraz’s clever apologetics and deflections are always done under the guise of enlightening us. The centrality of the tenets of Islam are cleverly and always obscured in his narrative, as he repeats above.
Back to the point: Shock and awe properly applied against the power centers of fascist Islam most definitely would degrade their capacity to wage Jihad. Imams who preach Jihad should be captured or killed on the battlefield Madrassas and Mosques which preach Jihad should be destroyed. The snakes who fund Islamic Jihad across the globe should be hunted down and neutralized somehow. This would work.
Our worst mistake in this war has been attempting to “win their hearts and minds” while simultaneously allowing all of the mechanisms of Islamic Jihad to remain intact.
Shock and awe worked nicely to permanently destroy Nazi and Japanese supremacism. A commensurately larger shock and awe will be necessary if we ever hope to see the end of the nightmares Islam is unleashing on the world. That’s the ugly truth. We have not yet begun to properly wage this war we have not yet named the enemy.
Propagandists like Eteraz are doing their damndeet to make sure that we remain confused about what must be done, remain confused about the nature of Islam. As long as we remain confused, Islam will continue to strengthen, and will ultimately become triumphant. I’m convinced that is his personal Jihad to serve his beloved Islam.
We are the only genuine losers when we listen to this cancerous army of Islamic agents, agents who have utterly infiltrated critical strata in the West whispering their sweet poisons into our willing ears.
