Afternoon!
Our cause is removing ISIS as a threat to anyone. I think we're all in agreement here.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't fight them, far from it. I'm saying that when we fight them we need to make it clear that we're not fighting against Islam. We need to make a distinction between the radical Islamists who make up ISIS and the fundamentalist Islamists who are sympathetic to ISIS's religious overtones but don't agree with ISIS's methods.
Imagine if we waged a war against radical conservative terrorists after the Oklahoma city bombing. Imagine how that would have felt as a conservative. You may have been sympathetic towards some of McVeighs ideas, but you certainly didn't support the bombing. Now the US government is lumping you in with McVeigh. All of the sudden things are different. Maybe the US government is really that bad? Maybe they do really have to go. All of a sudden, you're much more willing to listen to what people like McVeigh have to say.
For the first time pretty much ever, we're finally starting to get it. We're playing politics in the Muslim world instead of just relying on brute force. We created Bin Laden in the proxy war with the Soviets. We created Al Queda in Iraq when we removed Saddam. And we created ISIS because of the insurgency in Iraq. Cowboy politics may play great domestically, but they create problems internationally.
Everyone in the region is scared of ISIS. By focusing on ISIS rather than Islam we give political cover to countries like Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, etc to help out. They can't do that if we're fighting a war against Islam.
22%! Radical terror influence now spans the globe, and is in outbreak across the nation. Think about that for a moment....22%
As for the lie that McVeigh was a far right Christian terrorist....allow me to excerpt from a Time Magazine interview in 2001...
"Time: Are you religious?
McVeigh: I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years,
I sort of lost touch with the religion. I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs.
Time: Do you believe in God?
McVeigh:
I do believe in a God, yes. But that's as far as I want to discuss. If I get too detailed on some things that are personal like that, it gives people an easier way [to] alienate themselves from me and that's all they are looking for now."
Now, those that seek pleasure in distorting that Christians are somehow at fault for merely existing, is just as facile as those whom seek to believe that America is responsible for a Jihad that has existed in the Islamic world since long before the US ever existed as a nation.
What really gets me, and what I will never understand is people that live here, are educated here, derive their very sustenance, and livelyhood from here, and IMHO would wither, and adopt a fetal position should they loose the comfy life they have here, are so quick to blame the very country that affords this life to them...People DIE trying to get here, for Christ sake...!!
Of that group that calls itself Muslim, but refuses to shun, or stand up to the tactic of terror within, or worse yet practices al Taqyya in the form of weak tea denouncements of the latest atrocity we are forced to witness on news programs selling Viagra, or the latest Vaginal cream while I try to eat my damn dinner, I say hold them accountable.
I'll blame political parties for playing games. I'll blame the administration for dhimmi like behavior. Hell, I'll even blame myself for not speaking plainly about it earlier. But, blame my country for some 8th century, backward ass thinking dumb ass in a sand filled, God foresaken hell hole? Not a chance. Sorry.