The names just keep rolling in; the names of both American citizens and foreigners that want to kill us! The man that attempted to blow up a Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square this week is just another name on a long list including the underwear bomber of last year. It illustrates a point I make frequently. We are at war not with any country, but with an ideology. The modern (western) world is at war with the ancient world, its name being Islamic Extremism.
Lets face it, Islamic Extremists don't like the way we live, they don't like that women have rights, that we can wear whatever we want, say whatever we want, do whatever we want and our government and our religions will not take those rights away. They are jealous of our wealth and the wealth of opportunities we have. We have a standard of living light years over what they have. They force female children to marry old men, they stone people to death, they kill women for being raped, they don't want females to get educated or to show any skin whatsoever, so they force them to wrap themselves in head to toe coverings. If you didn't know better, you would think we were speaking about people in the Middle Ages or before. For Islamic Extremists, the advances of the modern world have passed them by. They have shunned any changes that would allow for human, and female rights. The men of radical Islam don't want to lose any degree of control over the young, the sick , the elderly and females.
As I see it, there is no way to convince these people that our way is the way to go. They don't want our way of life, they want us to adopt their philosophy and their beliefs. That will never happen. This leaves us at an impasse and leaves throngs of people that want to kill us and don't care if they have to kill themselves to do it.
How do we fight against an enemy that plays by absolutely no rules of human decency? They chop people's heads off and show it on Youtube. They use their own children as human shields. Do we treat them humanely and give them lawyers, trials, do we let them go? Do we torture them, waterboard them, interrogate them any way we can to get the information we need to save American lives? They put no value on any human life, not their own, not the lives of their children or family, not the lives of innocent bystanders. So how do we fight a "war" against that?
Unfortunately I think it is going to take more successful acts of terrorism on our own soil for people to really wake up and see that we have to fight dirty in order to survive. It is not pretty or politically correct to profile or to interrogate anyone that fits the profile of those Islamic Extremists trying to commit atrocities against us. It isn't pretty but it is vital to our national security for us to start doing it. It may not be humane to waterboard or roughly interrogate terrorist suspects trying to kill us. It is vital to our National safety that we do so if we need to. Nobody likes this but we can't be wimps here and let the terrorists win; More importantly WE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS CONFLICT. Muslim Extremists have been striking out at Western countries since before the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
We are the United States of America; we are (or were) the most powerful nation on earth. Are we going to let a loose band of rogue terrorists, financially backed by our own oil revenues, plot and scheme to commit mass murder against us? I think NOT. We are going to have to get the stones to do whatever it takes to restore our position in this "New World Order." It pains me to see our government fawning over so many terrorist nations and letting them get away with things we would not have allowed them to 20 years ago. We do this because we depend on these places for the oil we need. We apologize for being who we are. What is that all about? Do we live such a terrible way? Are we morally bankrupt? Do we ignore the rest of the world? If that were the case, why are so many people trying to come here both legally and illegally to become citizens?
This latest instance of a foreigner (recently made citizen) trying to wreak havoc on our way of life illustrates in bold letters why we need a strict, and more importantly ENFORCED set of immigration policies. It turns out we granted citizenship to this Pakistani man about a year ago and this week he tried to tear our country apart yet again. How did HE become a citizen? We must not be too particular!
We need send troops to the southern and possibly northern borders of our country to ensure that terrorists are not just walking in; we need to profile at airports and refuse flights from countries that won't do the same. We need to keep tabs on all people that are here on visas from countries that have a large number of terrorists and terrorist training camps. They need to be booted out of here when their visas expire and they try to stay. If they do this, they should never be allowed into the US again. EVER. We need as close to a foolproof National ID system as we can get. And all citizens need to carry their national ID. We have biometric identification capabilities...retinal scans, fingerprints, voice prints. We need to use them.
Terrorism , Energy Dependence, and Illegal Immigration are linked together as security threats to our country; they go hand in hand in hand. We need to tie up all the loose ends of all of these factors and develop new engery sources that will make us independent of other countries for our energy needs. We need to do it sooner rather than later. Our country needs to stop partisan bickering and stop all the politically correct garbage that is going to get us all killed. I don't want it to take more World Trade Center and Pentagon like attacks for us to wake up to this fact.
In my utopia, American people wake up now and do whatever it takes to prevent any terrorist attacks from happening here again. We need to become what we once were...one Nation, under God, Indivisible!
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