The fastest path to peace

Last week was a sad time in U.S. history as in a time of war our own Congress passed a resolution that serves no purpose other than to give hope and aid to our enemy. We are allowing the enemy to define and win the Public Relations war.

Our supposed elected representatives have lost their spine (many seem to have been born sans spine).

These nuts are not "criminals" deserving of rights and due process, they are non-citizen religious extremists who have been crystal clear about their desire to kill or convert every American (that means YOU and ME) to their breed of radical Islam.

If anyone needs a reminder about what kind of enemy we face, watch the Daniel Pearl beheading video, video of the planes hitting the Trade Towers, and the Al-Qaeda propaganda (particularly their latest 'Holocaust of the Americans in Afghanistan' "documentary").

They are all available at: http://www.liveleak.com/

They will not stop until you and I are either dead or praying to Muhammad 17 times a day. They have said this plainly. A literal reading of the Qur'an says this plainly. Ahmadinejad, the President of a foreign state (Iran, incidentally also in overt pursuit of nuclear weapons), has said this plainly - along with his intention to "wipe out" a sovereign state - Israel.

The enemy's intentions are not at all unclear. The longer it takes us Americans to fully grasp this, the more people will die. The reality is that we are at war and we must kill or be killed.

This is not a Democratic or Republican position. This is the Realistic position.

Even Syria understands that Islamo-nutjobs can be defeated with decisive, overwhelming force. I mentioned Syria's 1980s terrorist crackdown in conversations with some of you recently. The first paragraph of Friedman's "Hama Rules" article summarizes it nicely:

In February 1982 the secular Syrian government of President Hafez al-Assad faced a mortal threat from Islamic extremists, who sought to topple the Assad regime. How did it respond? President Assad identified the rebellion as emanating from Syria's fourth-largest city — Hama — and he literally leveled it, pounding the fundamentalist neighborhoods with artillery for days. Once the guns fell silent, he plowed up the rubble and bulldozed it flat, into vast parking lots. Amnesty International estimated that 10,000 to 25,000 Syrians, mostly civilians, were killed in the merciless crackdown. Syria has not had a Muslim extremist problem since.

Syria, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia have all faced Islamist threats and crushed them without mercy or Miranda rights. They no longer have problems with these nuts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Massacre
http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/63P58.htm

We have faced extremists before too. In WWII, thousands of Japanese kamikaze pilots, fiercely (fanatically?) loyal to the emperor of Japan, executed successful suicide attacks against American assets. To end the war, we crushed Japan with overwhelming, nuclear force yielding unquestionable victory. General MacArthur occupied Japan and imposed Democracy, guaranteed basic freedoms and civil liberties, and most importantly removed the emperor from political involvement. Certainly not minor changes. A mere 60 years later, Japan has the second largest economy in the world and is one of America's closest allies.

With the advent of politically correct warfare, decisive victory is no longer popular. We fight those who want to kill us with one hand tied behind our backs and wonder why it is taking so long. We have the most powerful military in the world and yet we choose to fight handicapped. As a result, wars are actually longer and more people - friend and foe - die in the end.

When law enforcement makes an arrest, they know that the best way to prevent a bad guy from fighting is to confront him with overwhelming force such that the only choice is submission and peaceful surrender.

It is a mistake to think that we are fighting a civilized or reasonable enemy who can be negotiated with. We are not. They have demonstrated their barbaric desire to kill Americans - man, woman, child, civilian, and soldier. We must crush them. Overwhelmingly, unquestionably, and quickly. This is the fastest path to peace.