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Fire of Liberty

Ralph Kinney Bennett has a good piece over at Tech Central Station remind us of the fact that we are in a fight with a demented evil whose only option for life is death our a strict adherence to fundamentalist Islam. Bennett notes that in order to stop the spread of Islamofascism we have to continue taking the fight to them and demonstrate to the people in Iraq and throughout the Middle East how much more rewarding the spread of democracy can be. I think I'd prefer more freedom, the lack of radical terrorists/evil dictators, more food, Rule of Law(Not Saddam or Assad's version) and a whole lot of other things one's children and grandchildren can enjoy rather than the bleak and horrific future that Osama and others present. So, we've go to keep on rolling down the road of victory and remove all obstacles that bounce up. I think Bennett put it best when he noted:

The rising numbers of foreign fighters who have made their way to Iraq are not fighting "for Iraq" They are there to kill "infidels" and those Muslims who are worse than infidels for their apostasy or indifference. They are there to continue the task they feel was so gloriously joined by the murderers who flew those planes into the World Trade Center at the outset of this long, bloody struggle.

Those fatuous lawmakers who float talk of "timetables" and gibber about "quagmires" and think we can simply "come home" from this fight, are guilty at the least of a monstrous ignorance.

We are taking a hard pounding, but we have taken harder. Our troops have the stomach to take it and pound back, but if they sense that we back home have lost our nerve then the fight is lost. The majority of us, who have had to make little or no sacrifice in this war, should at the least be signaling by the millions this July 4th that we not only support our military, but also the winning of this fight.

Somehow we must make it clear - to our troops, to our lawmakers, to our president - that we have the mettle and the patience for this; that we are prepared to sacrifice and fight, not merely "for democracy," but against implacable hatred - a hatred impervious to council, to appeal, even to weariness; an exterminating hatred that must itself be exterminated.

Well said. I hope some of those backsliding Senators who voted for the war but are complaining now will get the point. Lets hope.