Posted by Tina
If you care to know what will likely happen after the surge and what the state of the war against radical extremists looks like going forward I highly recommend the following transcript of a symposium held at The David Horowitz Freedom Center and printed in Front Page Magazine:
Symposium: The Place of the Surge in the War on Terror
I think it’s important to realize that in the greater scheme of things, Iraq is a theater or a battleground in the greater global war against radical Islam and against state players who are inimitable to our interests, such as North Korea and Venezuela. ** When we will win in Iraq, which we will, it doesn’t mean that we’re all going to come home and begin to spend peace dividends. What it simply means is that we will have established a bastion of freedom in an area that’s never known it before and this is critically important. – Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
And we just saw in the Financial Times this past week that one of the chief counter-terror officials in the Department of Homeland Security, I think it is, has railed against not the use of the term “jihad” or “radical Islam” to define the enemy, but actually he thinks that it’s wrong to call the war a war on terrorism, because everybody knows that we’re talking about Muslims, and they feel really bad about that. ** And so, you know, I suggested that perhaps we’re supposed to be fighting a war against meanies, or something like that, but — you know, people with bad table manners. But the problem is that when we look at this sea of denial, we understand that the refusal to acknowledge how vital Israel is as an ally in this war stands central to the entire denial. Because the minute that people acknowledge that the people who are attacking American forces abroad, that are attacking American civilians in the United States, that are trying to undermine the basis of the foundations of Western civilization, whether it’s here or in Europe, are the exact same people who are trying to destroy Israel. – Caroline Glick
I want you to look at a picture here, as the world and much of the world wants to paint the United States as this big dragon. One spear into the body of the dragon will not kill the dragon, but many spears into the body of the dragon will bleed it to death. And when we look at our internal enemies, we look at the press in some ways, we look at Russia, we look at China — these are spears into the body of the dragon. And that’s what we’ve got to prevent and understand, is how to prevent them from bleeding us to death. – Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely