Explosions ring out in markets, mosques, cemeteries, and public streets. Missiles rain down on civillian populations, and soldiers, militants, guerillas, jihadists, and international police lay in ambush. Chambers loaded, safetys off, with a cold distant stare, they wait.
The ideological war between the Judeo-Christian West and the Islamic Near-East is teetering on the edge of no-return. With neither side in the Iran V US match-up willing to back down on the nuclear issue, it’s just a question of who strikes first.
The major difference between this and the Iraq war is that there will be no denying this war at home… Americans are trying desperately to live their lives as normally as possible, but when this war expands to include virtually every muslim nation on earth, the US, UK, Russia, and EU will find themselves involved in a war on a far greater scale than any war in the past… and the worst part, the only way for the west to win is resort to tactics that are simply attrocious to western ideology.
Unless we’re willing to selectively violate the rights of the people based on their religious beliefs, we’re not going to be able to identify a terrorist until after he has commited an act of terrorism.
I don’t support profiling. I don’t condone racism, or religious discrimination, or discrimination of any kind… but the war on terror can’t be won as long as it’s fought in terms of a war on terrorists. The only way for the west to win is to change it to a war on Islam. This war is “winnable” because it’s a whole lot easier to identify a Muslim than it is to identify a terrorist.
I don’t support this idea. I’m not recommending it, or trying to say I want to see a war with Islam. I just think it’s the military strategy that we’ll see Dubaya and friends employ. We’ve already seen the start of the transistion from the war on terror to the war on Islam. When the UK busted the 2 dozen suspected terrorist who supposedly planned on blowing up trans-atlantic flights, President Bush said we were at war with “Islamic Fascists” instead of radical terrorists or similar language from earlier statements.
I believe this to be the beginning of the transition. When Iran’s nuke deadline expires and the EU and Russia prevent economic sanctions, the US will be left with no choice but to use its military to send a message to Iran. When this happens, the whole of the Islamic world will come to the defense of Iran. At this point the west can redefine the war officially, and start effectively exterminating the enemy and anyone living within 100 mile radius.