| #2 Reading Rantburg, a half-dozen other sites, and my daily "news"paper, I've found that 80% of the trouble in today's world is caused by one group of religious extremists. Ten percent is caused by anti-religious extremists, and the rest is caused by Russia, trying to re-establish an empire and having daydreams of military hegemony over central Asia. Muslims are involved with 80% of the problems, with the Left and Russia making up the rest. In order to counter this, we need to make sure we can adequately suppress both the 80% and the 20%. We can counter the Left with the truth. We can counter Russia with more and better weapons on hand, without having to use them. To deal with the muslims, however, the only thing they understand is the "strongest horse" - brute military strength. Playing defense doesn't hack it, and being nice only works after you've beaten the living sh$$ out of them. The Ethiopians are playing defense, rather than taking the fight to the enemy. We've used surgically precise attacks to kill 'only' the enemy. Muslims look on both attempts as being weak and effeminate. If we brought only a small fraction of the effort we employed with the landing at Normandy or on Iwo Jima to bear on the muslims, they'd all slink back to their holes and whimper in fear. We, the West, haven't done that. It's costing us the lives of some of our finest and bravest citizens because we haven't. Until we do, this dam$$$ war could last another 40 years. |