Anyone else have serious doubts over whether the Western Democracies can actually fight and win a war against militant Islam?
The Islamic world goes into paroxysms of rioting, burning, and shooting if it is reported that a page of the Quran was flushed down a toilet somewhere, meanwhile in countries under Sharia law, it is impossible to build a new church, and bibles are a contraband item, and those one attempts to smuggle into those natians (such as Saudi Arabia) are actively destroyed. Worship meetings by religions other than Islam are actively broken up and the worshippers subject to violence by security forces in nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia, or mobs in countries like Pakistan and Indonesia, newspapers routinely publish anti-democracy, anti-Christian, and anti-semitic cartoons, and yet the only religious attrocities acknowledged by Al Jazeera are when a Danish newspaper prints a few tame and frankly boring cartoons featuring Muhammad.
We have grown used to hideous human rights abuses in Islamic countries and graphic images of Jihadis torturing, shooting, and beheading prisoners in countries like Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Phillipines, etc. and yet the only real crimes against humanity occur when a few Brits put the boot in or a few Americans make naked human pyramids.
I am not saying that it is acceptable to make naked human pyramids, or kick prisoners, such things should be quietly dealt with by military justice, what I am saying is that we appear to have lost all perspective, and really have no clue how to go about fighting a war against men for whom unspeakable cruelty is a way of life. When we have an Islamic state working hard, and making it absolutely clear that this is their intent, to be able to launch a nuclear strike and wipe another nation off the map, and an entire section of the world "cheerleading" for them, we have to be fundamentally unbalanced, nay really and deeply screwed-up, to think that a two year old case of prisoner degradation is our biggest problem.
How long do we realistically expect to be able to maintain our current self-flagellating approach? This is a road-map to painfully drawn-out but inevitable defeat, not victory. Either we bite the bullet, say "Democracy is better", and begin to work to actively replace their ideology or we will lose. Oh, and for heaven's sake, if you are going to fight a war, at least reinstate the same World War Two era levels of censorship that prevailed in AMERICA from 1941-1945 on your own press. Or was FDR "teh evil ChimpHitler" too? Democracy doesn't have to mean Anarchy. Get serious or give up.
- SEAGOON
