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by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
The World Situation and Militant Islam
The following letter was purportedly written by a father to his sons,
May 19, 2004
THE WORLD SITUATION - A LETTER TO MY SONS
Dear Tom, Kevin, Kirby and Ted,
As your father, I believe I owe it to you to share
some thoughts on the present world situation. We have over the years discussed a
lot of important things, like going to college, jobs and so forth. But this really
takes precedence over any of those discussions. I hope this might give you a longer
term perspective that fewer and fewer of my generation are left to speak to.
To be
sure you understand that this is not politically flavored, I will tell you that since
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led us through pre and WWII (1933 - 1945) up to and including
our present President, I have without exception, supported our presidents on all
matters of international conflict. This would include just naming a few in addition
to:
President Roosevelt - WWII:
President Truman - Korean War 1950;
President Kennedy
- Bay of Pigs (1961);
President Kennedy - Vietnam (1961);
Eight presidents (5 Republican
& 4 Democrat) during the cold war (1945 -1991);
President Clinton's strikes on Bosnia
(1995) and on Iraq (1999) .
So be sure you read this as completely non-political
or otherwise you will miss the point. Our country is now facing the most serious
threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine
(which includes WWII).
The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that
there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who
realize what losing really means.
First, let's examine a few basics
1. When did the
threat to us start?
Many will say September 11th, 2001. The answer as far as the
United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following
attacks on us: Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983; Beirut,
Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983; Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
First New York World Trade Center attack 1993; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers
Military complex 1996; Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania US
Embassy 1998; Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000; New York World Trade Center 2001; Pentagon
2001. (Note: during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks
worldwide.)
2. Why were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms.
The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush
#1, Clinton and Bush #2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there
were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents
Ford or Carter.
3. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by
Muslims.
4. What is the Muslim population of the World?
25%
5. Isn't the Muslim Religion
peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the
predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial
leadership of Hitler (who claimed to be Christian), that made no difference. You
either went along with the administration or you were eliminated. There were 5 to
6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish
priests – see: http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm). Thus, almost the same number
of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the 6 million holocaust Jews who were
killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities.
Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing
anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world -
German, Christian or any others. The same is true with the Wahhabe Sect of Militant
Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way - their
own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The point here is that just like
the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how
many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the Militant
Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing - by their own pronouncements
- killing all of us infidels. I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you
do if the choice was shut up or die?
6. So who are we at war with?
There is no way
we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Militant Muslim terrorists.
Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be
fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you
are fighting.
So with that background, now to the two major questions:
1. Can we
lose this war?
2. What does losing really mean?
If we are to win, we must clearly
answer these two pivotal questions. We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous
as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not
fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean? It would appear
that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing
the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far
from the truth as one can get.
What losing really means is:
We would no longer be
the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily
increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us
quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us over
the past 18 years.
The plan was clearly to "terrorist attack" us until we were neutered
and submissive to them. We would of course have no future support from other nations
for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see we are impotent and
cannot help them. They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time.
It will be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't
matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
Spain did it because the Militant Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them
to withdraw their troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain
is finished. The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they
might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that
they can't resist the Militant Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already
be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast.
See the attached
article on the French condition by Tom Segel. If we lose the war, our production,
income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who
would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by the Militant Muslims. If we
can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else? The Militant Muslims fully know what
is riding on this war and therefore are completely committed to winning at any cost.
We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost. Why do I
go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple -- until we recognize the
costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts
into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to win.
So, how can we lose
the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by imploding. That is,
defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose and really
digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is
no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can
win.
Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and
death seriousness of this situation.
President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary
of Transportation. Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim
men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling.
Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war. For the duration
we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed
to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we
will most certainly lose all of them permanently.
And don't worry that it is a slippery
slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WW2 and immediately restored them
after the victory and, in fact, added many more since then. Do I blame President
Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can
maintain all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil rights during this
conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war.
Get them out of your head. Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or
the Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose.
I hasten to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just
don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression
to the enemy that we are divided and weakening, it concerns our friends, and it does
great damage to our cause.
Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians
and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war perhaps exemplifies best
what I am saying. We have recently had an issue involving the treatment of a few
Muslim prisoners of war by a small group of our military police. These are the type
prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings,
cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their
own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein. And just a few years ago these
same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason.
They are also the same type enemy fighters who recently were burning Americans and
dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still more recently
the same type enemy was, and is, providing videos to all news sources internationally,
of the beheading of an American prisoner they held.
Compare this with some of our
press and politicians who for several days have thought and talked about nothing
else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners - not burning them, not dragging
their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating"
them. Can this be for real?
The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment
of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension
and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death
struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can. To
bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes
us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned - totally oblivious to what is
going on in the real world.
Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal
strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people
are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude
of the situation we are in and into which the Militant Muslim terrorists have been
pushing us for many years. Remember, the Militant Muslim terrorist's stated goal
is to kill all infidels. That translates into all non-Muslims - not just in the United
States, but throughout the world. We are the last bastion of defense.
We have been
criticized for many years as being 'arrogant'. That charge is valid in at least one
respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart,
that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both
hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world. We can't. If
we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other
free country in the World will survive if we are defeated.
And finally, name any
Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought,
freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone - let alone everyone,
equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single
way that contributes to the good of the World.
This has been a long way of saying
that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to
the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Militant Muslim leaders
will allow history books to be written or read. If we don't win this war right now,
keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less.
They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach
little by little on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting
among themselves over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken
them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?
Democracies
don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead,
they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece.
And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide, that
they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they
are in power. They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then
start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses.
Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?
I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there
is no way that we can lose. I believe that after the election, the factions in our
country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in and will unite to
save our country. It is your future we are talking about. Do whatever you can to
preserve it.
Love,
Dad