March 07, 2003

Follow this link to another virtually flawless piece by Steven Den Beste giving us the Big Picture of what we're fighting for and why:
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Den Beste deftly explains that our upcoming liberation of Iraq is the second battle of our War on Islamist Terrorism [Afghanistan being the first], flowing logically out of the 9/11 attacks, as our declaration of war against Germany (as well as Japan) flowed out of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and as our first battle in that war did in Morocco. (That's right, Morocco--not Japan, not Germany, but North Africa.)
Read it all!, but here are two of the "meat" paragraphs:

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We are fighting World War IV. World War IV began on September 11, 2001. And like the other three world wars, this one will be fought everywhere on the planet and will involve most of its nations and peoples in one way or another before it's through.
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The real enemy in this war is the rot in Arab culture. It is because they are failures, and know that they're failures, but blame us for it and have started lashing out. That's the short description of something much more complicated and broad which actually includes a lot of non-Arabs and doesn't include all Arabs. I've been referring to it as Arab Traditionalism.

*No, you didn't miss WWIII: that was the "Cold War."