Fighting a losing battle
April 25th 2007 04:36
"I believe myself that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense — and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows — that this war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything, as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday." US Senator Harry Reid
Over the past week the US Republican party has pounced on those statements as being anti-American and unpatriotic. What is unfortunate is that he may have more of a point than what they would want to have any of us believe. When a foreign army has to resort to building a wall around a section of the city to stop the insurgents creating more havoc speaks volumes about the efforts of the multi-national forces to try and keep peace in a country that has quickly become mired in what could be an escalation of a civil war.
It no longer matters why the US convinced the rest of the world to go into Iraq. Whether it was the threat of WMD's or how evil Saddam was. The fact is we are there now in a situation that involves more than just trying to create peace in Iraq. The multi-national forces are not just up against a rag tag bunch of militants who want them out of there for their own means and ends but are fighting an ideology that is being planted in young minds far away from the battlefields. This is a new kind of war for which the US was totally unprepared for. If the "enemy" had fought together as a traditional army as opposed to individual attacks then the US and the rest of the forces would have claimed victory, packed up their stuff years ago and the world would be holding hands and singing "Kumbya" in unison.
The US has put the rest of the world in such a position that they have opened up the Middle East to radical Muslims who see this as a new place to set up base and control the region. Once you control the region you control the oil. Once they control the wealth then anything is possible. If the US pulls out tomorrow then they leave the world on the brink of disaster.
The theatre of war in Iraq is the visible part. Nobody seems to be talking about the silent war that is just as dangerous and will not be felt possibly for many years to come. It is happening all over the world and yet nobodys saying a word. It will be of immense danger to the west, more dangerous than the present war in Iraq if the world continues to live in ignorant bliss.
If you cast your eyes to Africa and in particular Sudan, Somalia, Morocco and Nigeria you will see that the radicals have their foot planted firmly in those countries and have either taken power or are fighting for it, and in some former secularist or Christian countries in the Middle East they have already fallen into hardline Islamic hands. If it can happen in those places, why is it impossible to believe that it won't happen here in the west?
In Europe and the US it's a little different as the moderate Muslims have slid in and demanded their rights to live the way they want including taking away the rights of the other religions to live the way they have for centuries (does anybody remember Christmas before it was hijacked and packaged as just another festive season?). This is like whilst the father stands out the front keeping out his daughters boyfriend whilst her other friends are sneaking in the back.
I don't mean to sound alarmist nor do I mean to come across as anti-Islamic (just anti radical muslim) but there is a danger that eventually the western world will wake up to a world that is no longer our own.
Over the past week the US Republican party has pounced on those statements as being anti-American and unpatriotic. What is unfortunate is that he may have more of a point than what they would want to have any of us believe. When a foreign army has to resort to building a wall around a section of the city to stop the insurgents creating more havoc speaks volumes about the efforts of the multi-national forces to try and keep peace in a country that has quickly become mired in what could be an escalation of a civil war.
It no longer matters why the US convinced the rest of the world to go into Iraq. Whether it was the threat of WMD's or how evil Saddam was. The fact is we are there now in a situation that involves more than just trying to create peace in Iraq. The multi-national forces are not just up against a rag tag bunch of militants who want them out of there for their own means and ends but are fighting an ideology that is being planted in young minds far away from the battlefields. This is a new kind of war for which the US was totally unprepared for. If the "enemy" had fought together as a traditional army as opposed to individual attacks then the US and the rest of the forces would have claimed victory, packed up their stuff years ago and the world would be holding hands and singing "Kumbya" in unison.
The US has put the rest of the world in such a position that they have opened up the Middle East to radical Muslims who see this as a new place to set up base and control the region. Once you control the region you control the oil. Once they control the wealth then anything is possible. If the US pulls out tomorrow then they leave the world on the brink of disaster.
The theatre of war in Iraq is the visible part. Nobody seems to be talking about the silent war that is just as dangerous and will not be felt possibly for many years to come. It is happening all over the world and yet nobodys saying a word. It will be of immense danger to the west, more dangerous than the present war in Iraq if the world continues to live in ignorant bliss.
If you cast your eyes to Africa and in particular Sudan, Somalia, Morocco and Nigeria you will see that the radicals have their foot planted firmly in those countries and have either taken power or are fighting for it, and in some former secularist or Christian countries in the Middle East they have already fallen into hardline Islamic hands. If it can happen in those places, why is it impossible to believe that it won't happen here in the west?
In Europe and the US it's a little different as the moderate Muslims have slid in and demanded their rights to live the way they want including taking away the rights of the other religions to live the way they have for centuries (does anybody remember Christmas before it was hijacked and packaged as just another festive season?). This is like whilst the father stands out the front keeping out his daughters boyfriend whilst her other friends are sneaking in the back.
I don't mean to sound alarmist nor do I mean to come across as anti-Islamic (just anti radical muslim) but there is a danger that eventually the western world will wake up to a world that is no longer our own.
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