THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume V, Issue # 9, January 11, 2003
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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NEW CENTURY, NEW YEAR, NEW WARS
By Alan Caruba
Does anyone recall the celebration of the new millennium and century in 2000? Oh, brave New World! We would put war behind us, united by global communications, the Internet, expanding trade. And then came September 11, 2001.
An attack on the World Trade Center had, of course, occurred earlier in 1993, but had been dismissed as the work of a handful of Islamic lunatics. The war in which we find ourselves engaged began much, much earlier. Some may trace it to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979. The Islamic government imposed on Iran back then is now being opposed by a new generation of Iranians. That is a hopeful sign.
One can go back to the establishment of Israel in 1948, a Western and democratic nation created in the midst of Islamic authoritarian states and attacked on the day it declared its sovereignty. No people are more hated by Muslims than Jews. And now, daily, Chris- tian martyrs join Israeli ones. The Jihad, of course, intends to bring both Christians and Jews under the tender mercies of Islam. And it should be noted that Hindus in India also have been murdered by Islamic terrorists and are the objects of the Islamic design for complete domination of the entire world by Muslims, who will extinguish all those who oppose their grand design, permitting the existence of "peaceful" and "cooperative" (i.e., subservient, collaborationist, quisling) non-Muslims, but only as members of society whose legal status and rights are subordinate and inferior to those of Muslims.
One can go further back in time to the League of Nations following World War One. It carved up the former Ottoman Empire, creating states like Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, and putting them under the mandate of the British and French. History teaches that the decisions of the League of Nations led inevitably to World War Two. Sixty million died in that titanic struggle between authoritarianism and freedom. And still people talk about the United Nations as if it, too, will end wars. It will not! It can not. Why not? Because, among the member-states of the United Nations, are many of the states threatening their neighbors.
I would argue that war is a natural condition of mankind. In the brief history of socalled civilization, it has been war and war and war that has determined the success or failure of nations and movements. Peace has only been the brief intervals of time between wars, large and small.
So we greet 2003 on the brink of yet another war. This time, it is a war to effect a regime change in Iraq. History suggests this is a wise move. The spread of weapons of mass destruction has left the world less safe than ever before.
Parenthetically, this is the problem that North Korea represents. Like Iraq, North Korea is under the domination of a single dictator. The North Korean political regime and economic system are testimony to the failure of Communism at a most basic level--its failure even to feed the people it rules. The notion the U.S.A. can "negotiate" any kind of "peace" with North Korea's current dictator is ludicrous. Perhaps a military action, such as the destruction of North Korea's nuclear facilities, will be required to bring down this Communist house of cards.
But first, Iraq. It is a supreme irony that our action against Iraq will, in, fact protect Saudi Arabia, the nation that furnished the key players of al-Qa'ida and the former Taliban. Saudi Arabia is a nation that provides us the oil we need to power our economic engine, while, at the same time, funding thousands of mosques and schools worldwide that militate against the West. And it does this with our dollars!
We will prevail in Iraq. No one doubts that. The unknown factor is how our actions will affect the future of other Middle Eastern states. The unknown factor is whether we will energize or undermine the global Islamic jihad? I predict it will be the latter.
The only thing we know for sure, then, is that America will be at war again in the tradi- tional sense of tanks, artillery, planes, bombs, and troops. The other thing we know is that America is no longer invulnerable to attack in our cities or anywhere else in our homeland.
It is not just a new century and a new year in which this war will be waged. It is also a different world in which we will wage war. It is war that must, as always, be waged against nation-states. The notion that we are waging war on something as nebulous as "terrorism" or the "shadowy" al-Qa'ida does not address the fundamentals of war, nor does it address the reality that this is a religious war being waged by fanatics in the name Allah. Realistically, it is also a war about who controls the world's second largest reserve of oil. There is nothing wrong in that.
Oil is a factor, too, in another possible military action waiting around the corner. Vene- zuela has been taken over by a Fidel Castro wannabe. In time, we will turn our attention to him as well and, if need be, we will liberate the Venezuelans who are currently in the streets protesting Communism in the backyard of the U.S.A.
The support this current generation of Americans has shown for our President to do whatever is necessary to fight the forces of evil in the world is encouraging.
Welcome to 2003! Welcome to the new wars that must be fought!
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History
The Middle East & the Arabs
The Threat of Radical Islam
More on the Threat of Radical Islam
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
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center (www.anxietycenter.com). He is the author of A POCKET GUIDE TO MILITANT ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VS. THE UNITED STATES, both available from the National Anxiety Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maple- wood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2003 Alan Caruba
Reprinted with Permission of Alan Caruba
Reprinted from ACaruba@AOL.Com
January 9, 2003
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