Why Is Damascus Still Standing?, by Richard H. Shulman
It was a beautiful morning for walking to work. Passing directly over me at 8:45 a.m., an airliner passed headed south towards New York Bay, not along an air lane and too low for safety. Another second and it was beyond the Empire State Building, but I feared that it was too low to clear the World Trade Center, especially when it veered west, towards it. Further view was blocked by its angle with the tall buildings around me. At my next glance, I saw a lone cloud in the otherwise clear sky. But it was rising and no cloud, rather, the result of a conflagration. THE fire.
For the next five hours, one constantly heard the sirens of emergency vehicles. Thousands slain! Walking home, I looked back at the tip of Manhattan, saw dense smoke, and wept for what terrorists did to my country and in my city. Passing a hospital uptown, I saw a crowd of people either giving blood voluntarily or seeking word on relatives from whom blood had been taken involuntarily, and I wept again. Then I gained some understanding of why the US atom-bombed Japan, for this was the "Pearl Harbor" of World War III.
I had warned that jihad was coming. Then experts warned that the terrorists were plotting. Today a plot hatched. Arab Internetters used to deny there is such a thing as jihad, but I pointed out that the Arabs were fighting here, infiltrating there, scheming everywhere. The clash of civilizations has become audible to the politically hard of hearing. Will they also be
soft of will?
The US has been infirm, its spirit corrupted by petrodollars and confused by misconceptions. In the name of justice, the US contends, even after the atrocity, we cannot just attack terrorist states and terrorist gangs. We have to prove exactly which gangs and which members of them were involved. Then we have to search the world for them. By that time, other gangs, hosted by terrorist states, will have struck. They are at war, whereas we imagine we are fighting one crime at-a-time. Nor are the gangs discrete entities, but merge for joint missions and subcontract for specific tasks. Meanwhile, our government does business with some of their governments, as if the relationship is normal instead of, on their part, deadly.
Will the US stop pretending it is making war on terrorism and replace half-measures with full-scale war? Will the US stop demanding that Israel "restrain" its retaliation against the daily, yes DAILY, terrorist attacks it faces? Will journalists "understand" that the poor Arabs are "frustrated?" It's jihad, not frustration.
Although most Arab and other Muslim Arab states sympathize with jihad against the West, from which some of them beg for aid, not all of them participate. The states that strongly aid terrorism or threaten neighbors are: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, S. Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen. The PA does, too. Expel their students and deport their nationals!
Let the US destroy their armed forces, terrorist bases, military industry, and mad scientists! But let Israel have the honor of annihilating the PA, which is celebrating our travail! |
