A comment from a friend and fellow Angel on Ben Shapiro’s TownHall article has had me thinking all day and I wanted to answer her as best I could…so, here it is . (The comment was made on my WordPress blog...that pretty much is the same as this one...someday maybe I'll tell the story of why I keep both.)
Partybabe,
When I was 20 I would probably have reacted to this in the same way
you have. The same for when I was 30, and 40 and I’m embarrassed to
say, 50. But then came 9/11. And I could no longer sit and watch and
say, give peace a chance, let’s talk. I’ve learned much too late that
in some situations, no matter how much you *want* something, sometimes
you must do the thing you would rather avoid. Most Soldiers will tell
you, no one hates war more than they do, yet that is what they prepare
for.
I don’t think Mr. Shapiro is saying kill every one who disagrees
with us. What he is saying is…if we want to survive…then we must kill
those who want to kill us. Being politically correct and never naming
the ones who want us dead…may get us just that…dead. Militant Islam
declared war on us long, long ago.
Enough. After the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the
plane downed in Pennsylvania, the endless suicide bombings, shootings
and rocket attacks in Israel, the Bali bombings, the synagogue bombing
in Tunisia, the LAX shootings, the Kenyan hotel bombing, the Casablanca
attacks, the Turkey synagogue attacks, the Madrid bombings, the London
bombings, and the repeated attacks in India culminating in the Mumbai
massacres — among literally thousands of others — its about time that
the West got the point: were in a war. Our enemies are determined. They
will not quit just because we offer them Big Macs, Christina Aguilera
CDs, or even the freedom to vote. They will not quit just because we
ensure that they have Korans in their Guantanamo cells, or because we
offer to ban The Satanic Verses (as India did). They will only quit
when they are dead. It is our job to make them so, and to eliminate
every obstacle to their destruction.
They will not quit. No matter how much we want
them to, no matter how nicely we talk to/about them. They will not
stop until we (anyone who does not share their vision of a
Sharia/Islamic ruled world) are destroyed.
These riots were over cartoons…cartoons…drawings. Go HERE.
Read what has been done to innocent people, in the name of the religion
of peace, in other parts of the world, that had nothing to do with the
U.S. There can be no peace by discussion. They will not hear the
words.
And no, I do not want total war. No sane person does. But those who want to destroy the West and all who do not submit to their mindset…they do…they call it jihad.
Still friends?
Love,Mom