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History Repeats Itself	John Henry
	Jan 21, 2005 00:14 PST

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ISLAM: IT WILL BE THE DEATH OF LIBERALISM 
By Raymond Kraft 
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and
hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more
than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and
America for food and war materials. 
 
Bushido Japan had overrun most of Asia, beginning in 1928, killing
millions of civilians throughout China, and impressing millions more as
slave labor. 
 
The United States was in an isolationist and pacifist mood, and most
Americans and Congress wanted nothing to do with the European war, or the
Asian war. 
 
Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on
Germany, which had not attacked us. 
 
It was a dicey thing. We had few allies. 
 
France was not an ally, for the Vichy government of France
aligned with its German occupiers. Germany was not an ally, for it was an
enemy, and Hitler intended to set up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe.
Japan was not an ally, for it was intent on owning and controlling all of
Asia. Japan and Germany had long-term ideas of invading Canada and
Mexico, and then the United States over the north and south borders,
after they had settled control of Asia and Europe. 
 
America's allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada,
Australia, and Russia, and that was about it. There were no
other countries of any size or military significance with the will and
ability to contribute much of anything to the effort to defeat Hitler's
Germany and Japan, and prevent the global dominance of
Nazism. And we had to send millions of tons of arms,
munitions, and war supplies to Russia, England, and the Canadians,
Aussies, Irish, and Scots, because none of them could produce all they
needed for themselves. 
 
All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was
already under the Nazi heel. 
 
America was not prepared for war. America had stood down
most of its military after World War I and throughout the
depression. At the outbreak of World War II there were
army soldiers training with broomsticks over their shoulders because they
didn't have guns, and using cars with ''tank'' painted on the doors
because they didn't have tanks. And a big chunk of our navy
had just been sunk and damaged at Pearl Harbor. 
 
Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600m
given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun
by Hitler. Actually, Belgium surrendered one day, because it was
unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels
into rubble the next day anyway, just to prove they could. Britain had
been holding out for two years already in the face of staggering shipping
loses and the near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain,
and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the
mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could
be dealt with later and turning his attention to Russia, at a time when
England was on the verge of collapse in the late summer of 1940. 
 
Russia saved America's rear by putting up a desperate fight for two
years until the United States got geared up to begin hammering away at
Germany. Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of
Stalingrad and Moscow, 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly
civilians, but also more than a million soldiers. More than a
million! Had Russia surrendered, then, Hitler would have been able
to focus his entire campaign against the Brits, then America, and the
Nazis would have won that war. 
 
Had Hitler not made that mistake and invaded England in 1940 or 1941,
instead, there would have been no England for the United States and the
Brits to use as a staging ground to prepare an assault on Nazi
Europe. England would not have been able to run its North African
campaign to help take a little pressure off Russia while America geared
up for battle, and today Europe would very probably be run by the Nazis,
the Third Reich .... The United States would very likely have had to cede
Asia to the Japanese, who were basically Nazis by another name then, and
the world we live in today would be very different and much worse. 
 
I say this to illustrate that turning points in history are often
dicey things. And we are now at another one. 
 
There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has or wants
to have, and may soon have the ability to deliver small nuclear,
biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world, unless it
is prevented from doing so. 
 
France, Germany, and Russia, have been selling these Islamic nations
weapons technology at least as recently as 2002, as have North Korea,
Syria, and Pakistan, paid for with billions of dollars that Saddam
Hussein skimmed from the "Oil For Food" program administered by
the United Nations with the complicity of Kofi Annan and his son. 
 
The Jihadis, or the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in
Kaffiyahs. They believe that Islam, a radically conservative (definitely
not liberal) form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle
East first, then Europe and then the world. All who do not bow to Allah
should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to
finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This
is what they say. 
 
There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East for the most part
not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition
and its Reformation today, but it is not yet known which will win the
Inquisition, or the Reformation. 
 
If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, or the Jihadis, will
control the Middle East, and the OPEC oil, and the United States,
European, and Asian economies the techno-industrial economies will be at
the mercy of OPEC. This is not an OPEC dominated by the well educated and
rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. 
 
You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next
winter? You want jobs? You want the dollar to be worth
anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Islamic Inquisition,
loses, and the Muslim Reformation wins. 
 
If the Reformation movement wins, that is the moderate Muslims who
believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions and live in
peace with the rest of the world, move out of the 10th Century into the
21st Century. Then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade
away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge. 
 
We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight
the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda, the
Islamic terrorist movements. 
 
We have to do it somewhere, we cannot do it just anywhere and we
cannot do it everywhere at once. 
 
We have created a focal point for the battle now at the time and place
of our choosing, in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or
Paris, or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we did and are doing three very
important things: 
 
1. We deposed Saddam Hussein and whether Saddam
Hussein was directly involved in 9/11 or not is not the issue. It is
undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist
movement for decades, Saddam is a terrorist. Saddam is, or was, a weapon
of mass destruction, who is responsible for the deaths of probably more
than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians. 
 
2. We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash
point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq and we have focused the
battle. We are killing bad guys there, and the ones we get
there we won't have to get here, or anywhere else. 
3. We have a good shot at creating a democratic,
peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest
of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military
presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed. 
 
The Euros could have done this, but they didn't, and they won't. We
now know that rather than opposing the rise of the Jihad, the French,
Germans, and Russians were selling them arms. We have found
more than a million tons of weapons and munitions in Iraq. If
Iraq was not a threat to anyone, why did Saddam need a million tons of
weapons? 
 
Additionally, Iraq was paying for French, German, and Russian arms
with money skimmed from the United Nations Oil for Food Program
(supervised by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and his son) that was
supposed to pay for food, medicine, and education, for Iraqi children.
 
World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began
with a ''whimper'' in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl
Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China.
It was at war for fourteen years before America joined in it.
It officially ended in 1945 a 17 year war and was followed by another
decade of United States occupation in Germany and Japan to get those
countries reconstructed and running on their own again a 27 year war.
World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a
full year's GNP adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion
dollars. World War II cost America more than 400,000 killed in action,
and nearly 100,000 are still missing in action. 
 
The Iraq war has so far cost the United States about $120 billion,
which is roughly what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost
about 1,000 American lives, which is roughly 1/3 of the 3,000 lives that
the Jihad snuffed on 9/11. 
 
But the cost of not fighting and winning World War II would have been
unimaginably greater, a world that would now be dominated by German and
Japanese Nazism [which were driven by unbelievably
wicked men and religious beliefs, as are the Islamic Jihadists of today
-- John Henry]. 
 
Americans have a short attention span, now, conditioned I
suppose by 30 minute television shows and 2 hour movies in which
everything comes out okay. The real world is not like
that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and
ugly. It always has been, and probably always will be
[at least until Jesus Christ, the Prince of peace,
returns to establish world peace. -- John Henry]. 
 
If we do this thing in Iraq successfully, it is probable that the
Reformation will ultimately prevail. Many Muslims in the
Middle East hope it will. We will be there to support
it. It has begun in some countries, Libya, for instance also
Dubai and Saudi Arabia. If we fail, the Inquisition will probably
prevail, and terrorism from Islam will be with us for all the foreseeable
future, because the people of the Inquisition, or Jihad, believe that
they are called by Allah to kill all the Infidels
[i.e. all that reject Islam, especially Jews and
Bible believing Christians -- John Henry], and that death in Jihad
is glorious [which is the same lie taught to the
Japanese in WW II -- John Henry]. 
 
The bottom line here is that we will have to deal with Islamic
terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not
go away on its own. It will not go away if we ignore it. 
 
If the United States can create a reasonably democratic and stable
Iraq, then we have an ''England'' in the Middle East, a platform from
which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The
history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility
and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war
is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending
war. And now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are
about to get nuclear weapons unless we or somebody prevent them. 
 
The Iraq war is expensive, and uncertain, yes. But the
consequences of not fighting it and winning it will be horrifically
greater. We have four options: 
 
1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets
nuclear weapons. [The fact of the matter is that
they probably already have them. -- John Henry] 
2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it
gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran's
progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is). 
 
3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept
its dominance in the Middle East, now, in Europe in the next few years or
decades, and ultimately in America. 
 
4. Or we can stand down now, and pick up the
fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps
after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the
rest of Europe. It will be more dangerous, more expensive, and much
bloodier then. 
 
Yes, the Jihadists say that they look forward to an Islamic America.
If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea
that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America
under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran
today. 
 
We can be defeatist, as many Democrats and liberals, peace activists,
and anti-war types seem to be, and concede or surrender to the Jihad or
we can do whatever it takes to win this war against
them. 
 
The history of the world is the history of civil clashes, or cultural
clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society
and civilization should be like and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists
always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them. 
 
In the 20th Century it was western democracy vs. communism, and before
that western democracy vs. Nazism, and before that Western democracy vs.
German imperialism. Western democracy won, three times, but
it wasn't cheap, fun, nice, easy, or quick. Indeed, the wars
against German Imperialism (World War I), Nazi Imperialism (World War
II), and communist imperialism (the 40-year Cold War that included the
Vietnam Battle, commonly called the Vietnam War, but itself a major
battle in a larger war) covered almost the entire century. 
 
The first major war of the 21st Century is the war between Western
Judeo/Christian Civilization and Wahhabi Islam. It may last a few
more years, or most of this century. It will last until the
Wahhabi branch of Islam fades away, or gives up its ambitions for
regional and global dominance and Jihad, or until Western Civilization
gives in to the Jihad. .... 
 
Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach too
little history. The Cold War lasted from about 1947 to 1989, at
least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Forty-two
years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting
Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany. World War
II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation and the
United States still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War II
resulted in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100
million people, depending on which estimates you accept. The United
States has taken a little more than 1,000 Killed-in-Action (KIA) in
Iraq. The United States took more than 4,000 KIA on the
morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid
Europe of Nazi Imperialism. In World War II the United States
averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years. Most of the
individual battles of World War II lost more Americans than the entire
Iraq war has done so far [because we were fighting
to WIN -- John Henry]. 
 
But the stakes are at least as high: a world dominated by
representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal
freedoms--or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, and
by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia. 
 
I do not understand why many Americans do not
grasp this. Too much television I guess. 
 
Many Americans profess to be in favor of human rights, civil rights,
liberty, freedom, and all that. But not for Iraqis, I guess.
In America, but nowhere else. The 300,000 Iraqi bodies in mass
graves in Iraq, not our problem. The United States population
is about twelve times that of Iraq, so let's multiply 300,000 by
twelve. What would you think if there were 3,600,000 American
bodies in mass graves in America because of our president? Would
you not want another country to help liberate America? 
 
''Peace Activists'' always seem to demonstrate
where it's safe and ineffective to do so: in America. Why
don't we see peace activists demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan,
and North Korea; in the places in the world that really need peace
activism the most? 
The liberals are supposed to be in favor of human rights, civil
rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad
wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human
rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc. American liberals
who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their
own worst enemy. If the Jihad wins, it is the death of Liberalism.
Everywhere the Jihad wins, it is the death of Liberalism. 
And American liberals just don�t get it. 
--- 
<a href="http://www.keepingapace.com/blogarchives/government/america_at_the_crossroads.php" eudora="autourl">
http://www.keepingapace.com/blogarchives/government/america_at_the_crossroads.php 
 
</a>About the Writer: Raymond Kraft is a lawyer and writer living and
working in Northern California. Raymond receives e-mail at
rskr-@vfr.net 
--- 
Above Raymond Kraft gives a most realistic annalist
of the threat America faces, not to the Republican nor Democratic
parties, but, far more important to our children, and all fellow
Americans. 
Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side
of their own worst enemy. If the Jihad wins, it will be the death,
not only of liberalism, but of ALL OTHER "ISMS!"
Too many Americans JUST DON'T GET IT! 
However, in the end only Christianity, born again believers in the King
of kings, will survive and that not by the sword, but by the power of God
Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ (Rev 1:8, 18, 20:12-15, 22:12). 
-- John Henry 
Wake Up America 
<a href="http://america.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/wake-up.html" eudora="autourl">
http://america.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/wake-up.html</a> 
Just War 
<a href="http://america.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/just-war.html" eudora="autourl">
http://america.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/just-war.html</a> 
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