Stem Cells Cure Terrorism?

WW III is well underway, and interestingly enough stem cells won’t be much help. Islamic militants are be-heading any foreign individual working to stabilize Iraq in the hopes of persuading that individuals country of origin to agree to the terrorist’s demands and remove troops from Iraq. The disturbing images of captive men screaming for their lives broadcast across the world are horrifying to any civilized person. It should only to serve to deepen our understanding of the enemy we face, and make us want to kill them. So its not, how shall we say, “out of character” for liberals to blame George W. Bush. They think invading Iraq was our mistake, primarily because it has angered the terrorists, also the fact that Saddam didn’t have stockpiles of weapons that John Kerry and Bill Clinton thought he did.
So far, the tactic that the terrorists are employing has only worked on two countries: the Philippines and Spain. After a tape of a Philippine man pleading for his life came over the airwaves of that country, their government removed all troops from Iraq. The man was released. The man’s mother thanked the terrorists for not harming her son. Apparently the fact that her son was kidnapped, tortured, and threatened with decapitation deserved a Hallmark card because instead of killing her son, the terrorists succeeded in forcing her nation’s foreign policy to be subservient to the will of Allah. After the bombing of the Madrid train station by Al Qaeda, the public of Spain elected a socialist government that removed all troops from Iraq. In the papers of Spain the bombing was blamed on the Iraq war. By confronting Saddam Hussein, the USA had stirred up trouble in the usually benign and peaceful Middle East. Thus the cowboy Americans were once again creating “new enemies” like the fundamentalists in Iran and Syria who were celebrating the 4th of July and singing the star spangled banner right up until the Iraq war when they “started” to hate us. These two victories emboldened Al Qaeda, which is excited at using this new method of political terror.
In fact the mentality of surrender is alive and well in every corner of the world, except unfortunately the Middle East. Hamas, Hizbollah, Al Qaeda, Ansar al Islam, etc are undaunted by violence, hardship, and chaos. They call it Tuesday. They aren’t dissuaded by temporary setbacks. They are devastatingly patient and diabolically committed to their murderous work. They aren’t concerned with the rise and fall of public opinion for their acts of genocide, nor do they put much stock in the Geneva Convention. They welcome death. They live by war. It is an honor to be “martyred” or even better to “martyr” oneself taking as many people with you as possible.
Terrorists watch missiles light up the sky over Baghdad like its “Disney on Ice” steadfast in their course of action, never reconsidering their maniacal behavior, or the goal it’s supposed to achieve. The Iraq war is their Super Bowl, where they have a chance to defeat the Great Satan, proving Bin Laden’s theory. The one formulated after Clinton withdrew troops from Rwanda following our soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu .The theory is that the U.S. is a “paper tiger” that will fold if things get tough. Bin Laden & Company believes that any superpower is beatable after they were able to force the Soviets to retreat (with help from the U.S.) from Afghanistan in the 1980’s. That victory gave the terrorists do have a sick savvy about them. If they can beat the United States, they can pretty much waltz through Europe taking power unopposed.
Devotees of the Bin Laden doctrine equate surrender with death. Terrorists may be lacking in sanity, perspective, and proper hygiene but one thing they have going for them is an unwavering resolve to kill anyone who doesn’t subscribe to a fundamentalist version of Islam. Why? As sick as it is, they believe in what they are fighting for. The question is: do we?
With the political season upon us, some bad intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs, and a political party that has taken every opportunity to de-legitimize a war while it’s being fought(Democrats supported the Iraq war only long enough to send troops into battle) Americans should remember that we’re still at war. The Farenheight 9/11 crowd, who have divorced themselves from all logical thought long ago, keep blathering about Bush lying about the weapons. That charge has no merit since the C.I.A., Britain’s M.I.6, and Russia’s intelligence agency all told Bush that Saddam had weapons. As Bill O’Reilly pointed while debating Michael Moore, “Acting on bad information isn’t a lie, it’s a mistake.” Moore refused to see that; more evidence of the rabid dog theory.
The mistake was the intelligence failure, not the war. Characterizing the liberation of a country as a “mistake” seems trivial. Saddam is gone. He won’t be funding Palestinian suicide bombers, or gassing the Kurds, or aiding Al Qaeda (You don’t think so-read the 9/11 Commissions report.) The people of Iraq are building a democracy against tremendous odds in a part of the world that could use one. Democrats will only concede that a free Iraq will be a devastating blow to terrorism with the cynical refrain “Yeah if it works.” Well that’s the plan. The Iraq people want democracy run by Iraqi’s, and that’s what they’ve got. 1000 American lives have been lost in that effort. Surrender isn’t an option. The paper tiger isn’t purring.