Infinite MonkeysYes, I've gone out of order. The Elder distracted me, but I'm focused now. :-)
Here is my reply to David's most recent post:
I stand by my assertion that the chief goals (at least in the next 20 years or so) of the Islamofascists are to drive Israel into the sea and to get the West out of their business. The attacks in Europe are primarily oriented toward keeping the Europeans out of middle-eastern issues. I am quite confident that if we didn't have bases in Saudi Arabia and we weren't supporting Israel that there wouldn't be a gaping hole in lower Manhattan right now.
Would they like to colonize the world for Islam? Sure, but they're doing that the old fashioned way: By moving there and procreating like rabbits. If we want to deal with that problem, we need to get serious about procreation ourselves and beat them at their own game. Many homeschoolers know this, not because they're concerned about Islam, but because they're concerned about institutionalized secularism.
WW2 is a side issue, which I will defer until later. My only point was that we only know what happened, not what might have been, and our assumptions about the latter are based largely on the presuppositions that got us into the war and are intended to make us feel content about the result.
We already have "a police state within Fortress America", but we don't have any mechanism to prevent things from getting worse. If you brought back 110,000 troops from Iraq and stationed them along the border with authorization to shoot on sight, I guarantee you the number of folks who slip through will be smaller than it is now. I argue as a Republican here - I'm saying that if the goal is keeping us safe, then there is a more effective way to do it than by rooting around the globe looking for terrorists and tapping the phones of your citizens.
And remember, the travel and import restrictions are international only - there is no expectation that when you leave this country you will experience the same freedoms that you do inside its borders. Domestic restrictions can be relaxed significantly.
The "War on Terror", as we are now fighting it, is unwinnable. As we escalate the war, we do not defeat the enemy, we only defeat ourselves.
Posted by RobbL at August 24, 2004 10:32 AM | TrackBack