"Preemptive
military action" or retaliation
By Charles A. Morse
web
posted September 2, 2002
Radical Islamists are in complete control of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya,
and a handful of smaller states where a breakneck effort is underway to
acquire chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. They have exported their
radical revolution by supporting terror and propaganda in moderate Islamic
states, insurgencies in Russia, China, the Philippines, the Balkans, and
sub-Saharan Africa, and with the influence that huge worldwide financial
investments bring to bear. The Islamists are aiding in the mass murder
of innocent civilians in Israel, India, Pakistan, and Africa. Genocide
against Christians has been going on for years in southern Sudan. Terrorists
are lying in wait to attack in the U.S. and Europe where infiltration
is reported to be extensive.
The raison d'être of this Islamist movement is a call for the death
of Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and anyone else who refuses to
submit to the scimitar. The only non-Muslims tolerated by these Islamists
are those who have submitted to Sharia, or Islamic law, and who have therefore
accepted dhimmi status as second-class citizens. The Koran commands the
believing Muslim to engage in Jihad, or war, against any nation, which
has refused to submit. The word Islam means submission.
Like the Nazis and Communists before them, the Islamists seek to establish
a world order with themselves in charge. They believe, like their totalitarian
predecessors, that they possess a superior truth, which entitles them
to exercise absolute power over others. With that same sense of insufferable
righteousness, they are attempting, by use of force and violence, to usher
in a bizarre utopia. They are actually in a stronger position than the
Nazis were in terms of financial recourses, hard and soft-core following
amongst Muslims, and an over-all global reach. They share with the Nazis
a fanatical penchant for murder of those whom they perceive as standing
in the way of their ultimate goal.
Vice
President Richard V. Cheney eloquently spoke of a "pre-emptive military
action" against Iraq by the U.S. in an August 29th speech to Korean
War veterans in San Antonio. The truth is that such a military action
would be more retaliatory than pre-emptive since the US has been under
attack by Islamists for over two decades culminating in the Sept. 11th
attack on the twin towers and Pentagon. The radical Islamist Iranian regime
of Ayatollah Khomeni launched the war against America in 1980 when the
American embassy was seized in Teheran and American citizens were held
hostage for over a year. President Jimmy Carter's weak-kneed response
to this assault on American sovereignty set the stage for today's crisis.
Since that time, the Islamists have grown steadily bolder and more audacious
in their attack against the US. The Clinton Administration did nothing
of substance in response to the first World Trade Center bombing, the
bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the bombing of the American
Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania or the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.
Islamists took note of the fact that the US was humiliated and bloodied
in Somalia. Evidence suggests that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were
Islamist agents when they blew up the Murrah building in Oklahoma City.
When McVeigh was picked up, according to U.S.News (8/29), he had several
Iraqi's phone numbers in his pocket and Nichols had reportedly been in
contact with Ramsi Yousef and the Abu Sayyef terrorists in the Philippines.
Senator John Kerry (D MA) has stated on TV that in his opinion terrorists
destroyed TWA Flight 800.
Since Sept. 11th, the radical terrorist threat has grown unabated. The
liberation of Kabul from the Islamist Taliban, a truly bright moment,
was met with celebrations and dancing in the streets. Similar scenes accompanied
the end of World War II and the collapse of Communism. All the world over
its easy to see, people everywhere just want to be free (Rascals). America
would not only be acting in its self-interest by stopping the scourge,
but would be acting in the interest of freedom everywhere. May the spirit
of Kabul spread to Baghdad, Teheran, and Damascus. 
Chuck Morse hosts a radio program on Salem Radio/WROL in Boston.

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