Uncle Bob on Life, the Universe, and Everything

Imagine there’s no Israel.
It’s easy if you try.
Imagine no Great Satan.
We’ve blown them all sky high.

Imagine desolation
in the whole Western Hemisphere…

YouHoooo.  You may say I’m a dreamer.
BUT I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE!
And if some day you don’t join us
We’ll find you with our guns.

There is a difference between people who lob un-aimable rockets loaded with 50,000 ball bearings in the general direction of civilians irrespective of military objectives, and people who inadvertently kill civilians who happen to live next to where the rockets were launched.  The Israelis were not commiting acts of terror, they were using military force to protect themselves.  Hezbollah, on the other hand, was trying to kill civilians on both sides!  The more civilian deaths, especially Lebonese deaths, the better for Hezbollah. 

We have often heard that the US is using terror tactics in Iraq or Afghanistan.  Indeed, Harry Belefonte has been applauded (by Hugo Chavez) for saying that President Bush is the greatest terrorist on Earth.  Many leftist politicians have claims that the US and Israel have been engaged in acts of terror, or have called the Iraqi insurgents "freedom fighters", or have suggested that one man’s terrorism is another man’s justice.

Nonsense.  Flying planes loaded with innocent people into buildings loaded with other innocent people is neither justice, nor fighting for freedom.  It’s just terror.  It is war against civilians for the purpose of killing as many civilians as possible.  It is a war to provoke more war, not to end war.   

In my humble opinion the Islamic Fascists are not trying to make a point, or retalliate for past injustice.  They are not trying to get the west to change its foreign policies.  They are trying to set the world aflame.  They want to see an ever expanding conflict.  They want total war. They want this because they believe that Allah wants them to build a new Islamic regime out of the ashes.

That’s why they teach the children in Saudi Arabia and Iran to hate Americans and the West.  That’s why they have slogans on their buildings like "Motherhood is sweet, martyrdom is sweeter".  That’s why they are trying, desperately, to gain nuclear weapons.  They want to build a fanatic army of Jihadists who are willing to fight to the death.  They want that army to swarm over Europe, over Asia, and to engulf the whole world

Or so it seems to me.