"D" Stands for "Defeat"

I watched the Obsession documentary last night. The most compelling message was not the deadly seriousness of the Islamic madmen, or the huge number of those who are making war on the West, or that they hate Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and moderate Muslims also, and intend to conquer the world. No, the most compelling message is that almost nobody knows this.

The main-stream media don’t want us to know (It’s why Obsession was turned down by all the alphabet networks) and politicians on both sides of the aisle are afraid of the implications. Democrats don’t want to believe it while Republicans worry that taking aggressive action will be political suicide since most Americans prefer not to believe it either. The horrifying thought is that it will take another magnified 9/11 to rouse the majority of Americans from their ostrich-like refuge.

At TIADaily.com, Robert Tracinski cautioned that a vote for any Democratic candidate is a vote for Democratic leadership in Congress, with the power to control the war budget. The head of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will be Jack Murtha, an advocate of immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, if the Democrats gain control of the House.

“To be sure,” writes Tracinski, “Democrats are divided on how they would prefer to lose the war. Some want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, while others want a phased withdrawal. Even worse, many Democrats have climbed aboard a campaign advocating negotiations with Iran and Syria--the two main sponsors of the insurgency in Iraq--over what these dictatorships would do to stabilize Iraq after we leave.

This, then, is the Democrats' strategy in Iraq: declare defeat, and negotiate with Iran over the terms of our surrender.”

Tracinski warns, ominously, that this disaster will not be limited to Iraq. “Flush with confidence and confirmed in the assumption that the Americans, for all of their technological superiority, don't have the moral fortitude to fight a war, where would they go next? A lot of them would go to Pakistan and Afghanistan and launch an even bigger war against us there. But don't worry. Maybe Pakistan's new Islamist rulers wouldn't go after us first. Maybe they would start a nuclear war with India, instead. And a retreat from Iraq would be a green light to Iran to develop nuclear weapons--or to buy them from the North Koreans.”

Summing up, Tracinski writes that “the Democratic plan, if it is enacted, would deliver America into a period of retreat, humiliation, and uncertainty that we haven't seen since the end of the Vietnam War--while giving our enemies a glorious victory that would be seen as a historical vindication of the Islamist cause.”

This is what is at stake on Tuesday.

Before closing, I’d like to draw attention to another charming behavior trait that is prevalent in Muslim societies, but was not covered in the Obsession documentary. In a piece called Uncovered meat and short skirts, Kira Cochrane writes about a bizarre but all too common sermon by a Muslim cleric.

“On hearing Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali's comments about rape, my first thought was that the sheikh, Australia's leading Muslim cleric, must be Sacha Baron Cohen's latest alter ego. After all, some views are so extreme that you can only hope they're satirical.

In a Ramadan sermon, Sheikh al-Hilali compared women to uncovered meat and quoted approvingly from a scholar called al-Rafihi: If I came across a rape crime - kidnap and violation of honour - I would discipline the man and order that the woman be arrested and jailed for life.

This punishment was because women -- skin-baring temptresses that we be -- are, in Sheikh al-Hilali's view, ultimately responsible for rape. If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street . . . and the cats eat it, he then said, is it the fault of the cat or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem.”

Hello, women of the West: These are the madmen that we are fighting. Beware what you ask for on Tuesday.