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ATB has an excellent, excellent assessment of what’s next for the RNC. She links, thru Michelle Malkin, to Diane West and her excellent “What Bush should have said…” speech…
With their devotion to Islamic tradition, then, these new democracies have, in effect, peacefully voted themselves into the same doctrinal camp as the many terror groups that violently strike at the non-Muslim world in the name of jihad for the sake of a caliphate — a Muslim world government ruled according to sharia.
So be it. What I mean by that is, it is neither in the national interest nor in the national will for the United States of America to attempt to reshape such a culture to conform to our notions of liberty and justice for all. It is neither in the national interest nor in the national will to attempt to reform a belief system that animates this culture to conform to our notions of freedom of worship. It is, however, in our national interest, and must become a part of our national will, to ensure that Islamic law does not come to our own shores, whether by means of violent jihad terrorism as practiced by the likes of Al Qaeda or Hezbollah, or through peaceful patterns of migration, such as those that have already Islamized large parts of Europe.
The shift I am describing — from a pro-democracy offensive to an anti-sharia defensive — means a national course correction. Rather than continuing to emphasize the democratization of the Muslim Middle East as our key tool in the war on terror, I will henceforth emphasize the prevention of sharia from reaching the West as our key tool in the war on terror.
War on Terror. National Security. Strengthen our Borders. Whatever you call it, keeping Islamic law from springing up in America should now be our highest priority. Like a cancer, once it stops, it’s hard to stop without radical and heroic measures. Look at Europe. Their “let’s all be friends” P.C. policies on immigration and spineless leadership for the last 20-30 years have gotten them into quite a pickle. Look at Paris, London, Copenhagen. Once proud cities with historic significance, so steeped in heritage you felt like you were bathing in it just by walking the streets, they are now hot-beds for terrorist sleeper cells. In Paris, injuring police officers has become a sport. Without our due diligence, the same could happen here.
America was built by those escaping oppression. Sharia legislates it. Dissension is met with punishment or death. Basic freedoms outlined by the American Bill of Rights are practiced only behind closed doors and under a shadow of fear. The good doctor, Siggy, has a great read on being American in a world being taken over by the European mindset. And it has nothing to do with how smelly the cheese is.
Have we forgotten who we are and where we came from? Have we forgotten that our greatness as a nation has been derived from the ideas and ideals of those ‘wretched refuse’- and not from European cultural elitism? Why are so many so willing to go back to the house that shunned them and would not allow them to eat at the same table as they? May will say that Europe is no longer influenced by the cultural elites, but that is poppycock. This incarnation of cultural elites like to paint themselves as voices ‘of the people’- and like their communist and Nazi predecessors, dissent and disagreement will not be tolerated.
MaxedOutMama notes the enemy is emboldened by the election results. But what will really steer the future of this nation is what happens in the next few months. The Iraqi perspective alone is worth the read!
We don’t have much time – things are going to start moving fast and hard. The election decided nothing, but what’s going to happen in the next month will decide a great deal. Our enemies will greet this election with joy, no doubt about it. They will believe they have the initiative because of it.
This is not a slam against anyone who voted Dem, btw. I agree that the GOP deserved to lose, but we will now see whether the Dems deserved to win.
What’s going to have to happen is that the congressional Republicans and Democrats have to make a united stance and present a united front against our enemy, and I’m not sure that either side is up to it. Regardless of how each person voted, we all need to press our representatives and senators to put the national interest first in at least one area, and that’s the position of our deployed military forces.
So with the Democrats now in control of Congress and Rumsfield thrown under the bus, I fear the good progress (yes, PROGRESS) in the WOT will begin to slowly unravel. As they bicker amongst themselves and snipe at the Republicans whose committee chairs they now covet, more terrorists will sneak over the border. And will wait like spiders in a little hole.
