Islamist Perfidy and Western Naivety: Which Is More Lethal?
This is political correctness gone crazy. I really am sick and tired of trying to “understand” the people who are trying to kill us. The radical jihadis are certainly not trying to “understand” the West and their only solution to everything is the extermination of the infidels. This doesn’t sound very open-minded to me, so I wonder why we should try to embrace these nuts, as if by being nice to them it will convince them to leave us alone. The Muslims don’t like us and the West certainly doesn’t like them and it has been this way for centuries. Even as far back as 1800, only a few years after this nation was formed, the Jefferson administration sent US Navy warships to fight Muslim Barbary State pirates that were threatening American merchant trade. So this animosity between the United States and Islam goes way back and it’s certainly not going to be resolved with bambi in the White House. The only time the West has gotten anywhere with Islam is when it showed pure, substantial, military force. Say what you will about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Muslim leaders in that part of the world know that fighting the United States (especially when it’s motivated as it was in Afghanistan right after 9/11) can be a losing proposition. Even when we do eventually leave Iraq and Afghanistan, Muslims in that part of the world will think twice before taking on the United States militarily. Washington, as well as the West, is losing sight of this historical lesson and they do so at their own peril.
