I find it amazing the libs think Abu Ghraib is worst then 9-11 when 3000 INNOCENT citizens were MURDERED. "Have you forgotten?"
With regard to winning the war against the Islamic militant ideology, it's a disaster..
9/11 was the equivalent of Pearl Harbor. It woke us up (at least some of us) to the threat that Islamic militancy posed directly to our country.
But the war must be fought in the Middle East. It's a war for the futures of millions of muslim youths, who's beliefs and opinions are currently being shaped RIGHT NOW, awaiting actualization when they reach adulthood.
And it's a war that must be both carrot and stick.. We cannot just fight this war with guns and bombs. We have to fight it with superior political, moral, and economic values.
The middle east is a mess right now.. Economic stagnation, major demographic pressures, peaking oil production and a non-diversified industrial base that can employ their people.
And there are two major ideologies currently vying for the minds of those young people.. Westernism and Islamism.
My whole view of Iraq is that it presented an opportunity to attempt to reverse the existing trend in the Mid-East and force the Islamists to defend their own turf, while providing some major motivation for the regimes in the region NOT to surrender to their Islamist pressures.
So yes.. in the strategic view, this scandal is a major defeat for our foreign policy goals. It's not the end of the war, but it's going to make the job that much harder to perform, and final victory that much more difficult (and bloody) to achieve.
Btw, those Islamic militants attempted to kill far more than 3,000 people. Had they been only two hours later, the death toll could have been as high as 20,000 or more.
So no.. I have CERTAINLY NOT FORGOTTEN.
Hawk |
