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2016-06-16 Home Front: WoT

George Friedman: Facing Some Truths Behind the Florida Massacre

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Posted by charger 2016-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Step 1: pull your head from your ass.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-16 04:28|| 2016-06-16 04:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "#1 Step 1: pull your head from your ass."

Agreed.

To be fair, though, this long, rambling article does raise some good points: we do need to decide whether we're at war or merely chasing criminals; and we do need to decide-- and declare-- who the enemy is.

Though the author rightly and emphatically answers the first question (we're at war), he drops the ball on the second.

Islam is at war with us. Indeed, Islam, from its inception, has been at war with everything that is not Islamic. At times, that war has "gone hot" in armed struggles for conquest and subjugation; at other times, it has "simmered on the back burner", dormant until Islamic forces can recover the strength and will needed for another push forward.

But hot or cold, Islam's war against all that is not Islamic is perpetual. And we in the West are the present focus of its imperialistic, totalitarian struggle.

Islam is at war with us, but we do not want to face that fact because we shrink before its enormous implications. We do not want to be at war with Islam, simply because we are afraid.

The enemy is not the "jihadist strand of Islam" as the author claims; the enemy is Islam.

All of it.

Posted by Dave D. 2016-06-16 08:25|| 2016-06-16 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Crimes can only be punished after the fact. In war, you have the offense / defense options.

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-06-16 10:08|| 2016-06-16 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 "We do not want to be at war with Islam, simply because we are afraid." has there ever been a war before where one side truly had the ability to eliminate the other but instead tolerated provocation after provocation after provocation.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-06-16 14:53|| 2016-06-16 14:53|| Front Page Top

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