Posted by
Sam Allen on Saturday, October 03, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Pat Buchanan in his column today about the wars in the Middle East closed with this statement.
"The killers of 9-11 were over here because we were over there. How has
being over there benefited us, to compensate for the cost?"
That is simply Baloney!! His isolationism is demonstrably false. The killers of 9-11 were over
here because they saw their efforts as part of a larger effort to make
the whole world submit in one form or another to Allah. They were
primarily belief driven not revenge driven.
The terrorist
attacks that still happen in Europe, which in general has acquiesced to
Muslim culture shows that radical Islamist will attack based upon their
beliefs not our actions. Whatever other excuses they used to justify
their actions are simply that, excuses.
Now whether we should
continue to prosecute wars in the Middle East is debatable, because it
may in fact not be effective in changing their culture. Unless you
combat the real enemy, which is Islam itself then you will not change
their culture.
On the other hand, as with communism, the Korean
and Vietnam Wars may not have been totally effective on those terms,
but it did keep the communists busy somewhere other than America. I
know the cost of continuing to prosecute the war is high, and it may
never result in a long term change in those areas, but it may still be
the safest place to have a war.
Don't fool yourselves, Islam
is at war with the west, and we will either be fighting them somewhere
or we will be submitting to them here.