Strike while the iron is hot
Reader comment on item: Iran, a Coming Revolution?

Submitted by Ken McPherson (United States), Sep 27, 2002 at 18:57

Dan Rather's simple comment, "They are the losers of the world and they know it", summed up the whole argument. They will not stop hating Western progress, or become free themselves, because we're gone- just look at Africa.

Why should we allow people to suffer, simply because of some misguided "principle" that the people who are killing them are from the same place? How long should we wait for them to "find their own way?"

All the world awaits a liberator. If not now, when? Islamist rants and oppression rise in proportion to the shakiness of Islamist regimes.

We stopped the warlords of Western Europe. Even our bumbling, disastrous, halfway measures in Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and Africa have brought more freedom to those areas than they have ever known before.

But Africa represents no threat, you say? Buchanan isolationists trumpet the flood of Third World refugees as our greatest threat- and letting the Russian/Chinese alliance grab their resources is another form of appeasement.

In Europe, especially, the Muslims "hate" the decadance but love the welfare. They refuse to assimilate yet dream of breeding their way into Islamist political majorities. (Again, welfare feeds the worst segments of society.)

The majority of the world is democratic in one form or another; in 1900, no country had universal sufferance. (In the US, there were the restrictions of Jim Crow, and neither women nor Indians could vote- though illegal immigrants were certainly used, as they are now, to stuff the ballot boxes.) The League of Nations did not accomplish this. Neither did the Caliphs, the Czars, the Kaiser, the Shogunate, or Shaka Khan.

Government backed militant Islam must be crushed as utterly as the centuries of Japanese "Bushido" tradition, for the same reasons- humiliated by Western technology, Japan used that same technology in a mass terror attack called Pearl Harbor.

Their Army generals thought that America wasn't willing to pay the blood price.

We were. Militant Islam is next...

Use cheap oil to build trade, rather than UN-style welfare that only builds corruption. Our economic system of kings, armies, and bureaucracies (preisthoods) is based on resource wars- see the brilliant shorthand description of the beginnings of this system in Genesis.

If the West falls, there is nothing- and has never been, with any other people, race, or nation (for this is a racial as well as religious and cultural war)- to replace the European uplift. Either our "One World" imperialism or theirs. Capitalism or Shariah.

We'll deal with the pollution and political corruption later.

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