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Volume VIII, Issue # 154, August 16, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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ISLAMISM & THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT:
IRAN'S STRATEGY RELIES ON WESTERN COWARDICE
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE LATEST ISRAELI "CEASE FIRE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT: THE "CEASE FIRE" CONSIDERED IN THE
BROADER CONTEXTS OF ISLAMIC HISTORY, THE MODERN RESURGENCE OF MILITANT ISLAM, & THE LONGTERM
STRATEGY OF THE ISLAMISTS IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST --
WESTERN LEADERS' MISPERCEPTIONS & DELUSIONS THAT ARE VERY LIKELY TO CAUSE THE EVENTUAL DEFEAT &
DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR THOSE NATIONS THAT COMPRISE
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: UNITE, CONFRONT, DEFEAT, & TOTALLY DESTROY THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM, OR FACE
THE DECLINE, FALL, & EVENTUAL ERADICATION OF THE WEST & ITS CULTURE, INCLUDING CONSTITUTIONAL
DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE & BASIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES & BELIEFS
FULL STORY:
Among the Syrians, Iranians and their surrogates known as Hezbollah, this
latest “cease fire” with the Israelis will only be a time of reorganization
and rearming. To those in the West, it is a time of naive and baseless
“hope” for a result that has never been and will never be. And this false
hope is sure to be shattered whenever the Islamists choose once again to
assert themselves.
Many Westerners consider Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to operate somewhere
between fanaticism and insanity. And, among Iran’s leaders, he is certainly
not the first to give such an impression. When American Embassy workers were
first taken hostage in Tehran in November of 1979, the United States
government and its allies were quick to invoke such invective against the
villainous and insane Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni and his equally villainous and insane minions.
Threatening unspeakable brutality against the hostages throughout the
remaining year of the Carter Presidency, the Iranians nonetheless became
absolutely serious about negotiating a peaceable end to the crisis from the
very moment Ronald Reagan was elected to succeed Jimmy Carter.
Hardly the “crazies” they had been portrayed to be, the Iranian Islamists suddenly
became very rational and desirous of a settlement. Nor did they show any
inclination to achieve the martyrdom so greatly esteemed in their religion.
In the end, the hostages were released at the very moment Reagan was sworn
in as President of the U.S.A.. No coincidence there.
Twenty-seven years later, the status quo still holds in every respect. Hamas
and Hezbollah still wantonly murder Israelis, and they still revel in plans
to destroy Western infidels. And, in a pattern that has been unbroken since
the modern resurgence of Islamism, or militant Islam, their successes and failures are
determined solely by the willingness of Westerners to accommodate them.
Israel easily could have moved in an unrestrained manner and vanquished
those Islamists of Hezbollah who provoked Israel's wrath by terrorizing its
cities and murdering its citizens. Among those who desire true peace in the
region, it is understood that this is the exact course they should have
taken.
Yet, fearing diplomatic repercussions, Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli
Prime Minister, chose to pull his punches right from the beginning of this
most recent conflict. In so doing, he lost his strategic edge, while ensuring
that the protracted nature of the conflict would result in the very
condemnation he had so inordinately feared. Now, he seeks to cut his losses
by engaging in yet another meaningless “cease fire.”
Israeli restraint and capitulation has never garnered anything but an
increase in the confidence, and thus the aggressiveness, of its mortal
enemies. So, to expect anything different this time around, as key leaders
and diplomats in the West are currently promising, indicates a degree of
“wishful thinking” that itself borders on the insane.
Abu Heija, a writer for the Hamas publication Al-Risala, expresses the
popular sentiment among Israel’s foes very plainly, stating that Israel’s
willingness to abide by the “cease fire,” constitutes a “victory” for
Hezbollah, and thus signals a “go-ahead” for new attacks from Hamas.
Should any rational individual be surprised by such a response from Israel’s
sworn enemies? Has that tiny nation ever reaped any other reaction from its
continued efforts to mollify or “buy” the good will of its mortal enemies
through such ludicrous efforts as the giveaway of strategically critical
lands?
Despite the almost juvenile wishes of those appeasers in the West, the grim
“blessing” of this latest agreement is only that Israel will soon have
another chance to properly deal with its enemies. This “cease fire” is no
more likely to hold than its innumerable predecessors.
Therefore, Israel had better use the finite, intervening time to prepare for
its next engagement, in order to ensure that the outcome is resolute and
decisive. It can be absolutely certain that its enemies are doing exactly
that.
In the short term, if Israel intends to enter into such clashes to a limited
degree, only to eventually back out from them, it would be far better to
simply learn to live with the periodic incursions and random killings
perpetrated by those who hope to annihilate Israel.
But, even if such cowardly thinking prevails, the situation will never
dissipate into eventual calm. Militant Islam, if left unchecked, will
invariably continue to metastasize, just as it always has. Such a reality
bodes especially ill, considering that Iran now verges on the threshold of
nuclear capability.
This conflict will end only when the current multitude of Islamist terrorist
organizations are reduced to the status and capabilities of localized crime
rings, governments which support them are deposed, and any who remain
sympathetic to them are made to realize that it is in their own best
interests to guarantee that such evil entities never rise again.
The stage has been set. Ahmadinejad and the dark forces he represents will
relentlessly advance on the rest of civilization, if allowed any latitude to
do so. Those who remain in denial do not understand what it is that
motivates him and his kind.
Like Osama Bin Laden before him, Ahmadinejad does not believe that the West
possesses sufficient resolve to stand him down. And, in this most recent
engagement, the West has given him little reason to contemplate otherwise.
Despite all of the myopic moralizing of the usual critics of Israel and America,
neither retreat, nor isolationism, nor the phony stability of a
“stalemate” present viable solutions. The only options for those nations
that comprise Western Civilization are to confront and defeat this enemy, or
to face their own eventual eradication.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Israel --The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
The Middle East & the Problem of Syria
The Middle East & the Problem of Iran
Islamism & Jihadism -- Radical Islam & Islamic Terrorism
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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