Letter to the Editor -- The Real War

Below you will find a letter I recently received and wish to share with you. It may not be politically correct but I feel it addresses many issues too often ignored.

2007--THE REAL WAR - 01/06/07

by: 449 Quentin

The Real war is not being fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. The war that will decide America’s fate is being waged at home.

It is time to stop the internecine hatred that is tearing this country apart. We can no longer tolerate the ineptitude of the Democrats or the Republicans. We have a billion Muslims that call us the Great Satan and want us to convert or die. We have a billion Chinese waiting in the wings to pick over the bones of our civilization. We have a nuclear mafia running Russia and a group of former allies in Western Europe that are handing the keys to the vault to their Muslim minorities. In Africa we have anarchy, disease and genocide. And when we look south we see failing countries that ship their poorest and least educated citizens to our porous border. With the possible exception of Latvia and Estonia we have no allies and no friends.

The Democrats and the Republicans have brought us to this precipice with their joint ineptitude. We need a new party and we need it fast. We need leaders who can address our problems with solutions not platitudes. The sun is setting and a cold winter night is looming. We need men and women who can articulate a plan that can lure centrists in both parties to its banner. We need people who can relegate the Neanderthals on the extreme right to the dustbin of history which they should deservedly share with the sanctimonious fools on the left who think that the answer to our problems is to negotiate ourselves out of existence.

Very soon in historical terms we will have to go to war with Iran. The Democrats are oblivious to this fact and the Republicans have tried war and failed. Like most wars we will not have a choice whether we want to fight it or not. It will be thrust upon us by the tides of history. The Muslim tide began over a thousand years ago. It has Centuries of momentum behind it and it will not go away because of a U.N. Resolution. Nor can we wish it away. That is not the way reality is constructed. Sometimes as Tolkien said, " you have to leave the tranquility of the Shire and go out and destroy the enemy before he ravages everything that you hold dear. "

The Muslim world has never seen a Democracy and it probably never will. To quote Osama Bin Laden, "when people see a strong horse and a weak horse they naturally back the strong one". A wise man ignores his friends and listens to his enemies. Friends are not a mortal threat and enemies are. When people tell you that you are a degenerate civilization, a threat to their way of life and state they want to destroy you, only a fool ignores the warning. Saddam tried to be the strong horse and he failed. Now the Mullahs in Iran have picked up his sword. It has always been about the oil. They've understood this for a long time in Tehran even if Nancy Pelosi still does not.

Wars are terrible things but not the most terrible thing. Losing a war is the only thing in that category. Unless of course you lose it to the United States and we do not have that luxury. The reality is that the United States will implode without reasonably priced oil. We are not located in the tropics, our houses have to be heated. That is a necessity not a negotiating point. Trucks have to have full gas tanks or supermarket shelves will empty fast. This is more important than whether the Spotted Plover has a good nest site. That is why the left wing of the Democratic Party has led us to the precipice we are standing on. We haven’t built a new major oil refinery in decades. Still we must blame both of our parties for that.

The equation is simple. Iran wants to control the oil. Saudi Arabia and the gulf states are looking nervously over their shoulders. Russia lost over twenty million dead stopping a man named Hitler and the United States cut and ran in Somalia under Bill Clinton when we lost a dozen. We ran in Lebanon under Regan when they blew up a barracks and killed a couple of hundred marines. Granted one death is to much but reality is a harsh place and it’s the only home we have. At this rate we will be perceived as the weaker horse and Saudi Arabia and the sheikdoms in the gulf will fall to Iran without a shot being fired. Then the mullahs can peg prime at $150 per barrel and we will collapse. Using the oil money Iran will control a billion people armed with the best weapons money can by. We can wait it out and fight them then or we can do the right thing and destroy them now. We only have two options.

Modern military history has shown that we own and control the battlefields. Our technology and our military will always prevail there. Our enemies have deduced that and they have chosen to fight us in the alleys using Guerrillas and suicide tactics. We can never win in that situation. War should be a last resort in the fullest sense of that meaning. There is no justification for unleashing a horror like war except self defense and survival. We have an enemy that has stated over and over again for a thousand years that they wish to convert us or destroy us. That is not my opinion it is their dogma. Only at this moment in that ancient struggle the tactics have changed. Now they are verging on mastering the complexities of Biological, Chemical and Nuclear weaponry. If we allow this we are doomed. Our only hope is to hit them in their strongest place and obliterate it. That place is called Iran. Then and only then will the strongest horse emerge from the nuclear dust for all the world to see.