Cease Fire Nonsense
One of the best summaries of what the Global War on Terrorism is all about can be found by reading AmbivaBlog -- Human Sacrifice (emphasis added):
From my air-conditioned SUV, I do know what many brave and selfless heros are doing for me and my family as well as for our countries. Which is why I grind my teeth when diplomats, who have repeatedly failed to solve, but will repeatedly succeed in extending, by cease fires, the war against Islamofascism. We in the West have yet to learn that Islamofascists are not interested in peace, but only victory. Their victory is defined in one significant measure by the desctruction of Israel as well as the eventual Islamofascist theocratic subjugation of Europe and America. They can see victory, while many in the West only cower. What will happen if we only negotiate and appease while they continue their march to victory? When they obtain nuclear weapons, will we cease to cower, or will we negotiate and appease? Will we surrender our way of life? Islamofascism is a dish only served cold, and I say No. Ponder this once again:That's what Israel was being asked to pay as the price of its continued provisional existence in the Middle East. Once Israel had shown readiness to compromise and had withdrawn from Lebanon and then from Gaza, the slow attrition of rocket attacks and the occasional suicide bombing continued, as if to say: You are month-to-month tenants of this land, and your rent will be collected in blood until such time as we are ready to evict you. . . .
President Ahmadinejad of Iran likewise explained the importance of Hezbollah's battle in an interview that aired on the Iranian News Channel on July 23. "In my opinion, Lebanon is the scene of a historic test that will determine the future of humanity," he said.Read that sentence again and remember it: "A historic test that wll determine the future of humanity." That is what Israel is fighting for, and that is what Lebanese Shiite civilians, like the 3000 Americans killed on 9/11/01, are dying for. All-out war has been declared on liberal democracy by neo-medieval fascist theocracy. Soon enough that war will be nuclear. . . . Much as some of you may hate it and try to deny it, as long as you are enjoying the relative safety and luxurious freedom of life in America, Israel is fighting alone for you and me. On this one, the Right is right: unreal as it sounds from an air-conditioned SUV, that much is at stake. If you aid Nasrallah, you're sacrificing your grandchildren to dhimmitude. That choice is yours to make (though not your grandchildren's), but it would be less hypocritical of you to go live in Iran now.
All-out war has been declared on liberal democracy by neo-medieval fascist theocracy. Soon enough that war will be nuclear.I too believe this to be true and inevitable, perhaps before the end of this decade. When are we going to overthrow the Iranian regime either by helping dissidents (this window may have closed) or by providing full-throated support to Israel as it fights an Iranian client? I too believe we are living in the 1930s once again:
[I]t is still surreal to reread the fantasies of Chamberlain, Daladier, and Pope Pius, or the stump speeches by Charles Lindbergh (“Their [the Jews’] greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government”) or Father Coughlin (“Many people are beginning to wonder whom they should fear most — the Roosevelt-Churchill combination or the Hitler-Mussolini combination.”) — and baffling to consider that such men ever had any influence. Not any longer. Our present generation too is on the brink of moral insanity. That has never been more evident than in the last three weeks, as the West has proven utterly unable to distinguish between an attacked democracy that seeks to strike back at terrorist combatants, and terrorist aggressors who seek to kill civilians.Just ask yourself these questions: Why would an Islamofascist Iran not want to get nuclear weapons? Why would an Islamofascist Iran not threaten their use to achieve hegemony in the Middle East? And what should we (including Israel and any other liberal democracy) do to prevent an Islamofascist Iran from obtaining or threatening to use nuclear weapons (if they already have and we do not yet know)? It is tempting and comforting to view war as a Hollywood epic when watching Fox or CNN live. But real people are shooting real steel and fire at one another and dying. Stop the calls for Cease Fire and demand the Call for Victory. Victory to any liberal democracy battling Islamofascim -- especially Israel. UPDATE: Michelle Malkin urges us to Read the signs.