I am left of center but some on the left do not appear to
know, where the Islamic fundamentalist threat is concerned, what they are talking about. They cannot see the forest through the proverbial
trees. I would like them to live in an
Islamic fundamentalist state so they can experience the reality of true
tyranny.
Left of center journalists, scholars and commentators like
Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman and many others with
whom I do, more often than not, agree are, in my opinion, on this issue,
absolutely blind to extremist fundamentalist doctrine. One need only read
the charter of Hamas in Gaza, the goals of which unequivocally call for the
elimination of the Jewish state and all of its Jews within, watch what
ISIS or ISIL do as they now take much territory in northern Iraq using US
weaponry stolen from the impotent corrupt Iraqi government Bush put into power,
and ISIL attempts at the shameful genocide of our friends the Kurds through starvation and
thirst.
Those journalists and others sympathetic to Hamas and other extremists are impervious to reality. They would not last two seconds in a
religiously fundamentalist nation state where there is not even the illusion of
a free press. ISIS and others like it
reduce humanity to an 8th century existence, beheading men who do not believe
as they do and subjugating women whom they value at best as second class citizens
and at worst less than dirt.
I am not duped by the word freedom or American
exceptionalism but now I do believe the only thing that stands between our
western way of life and the ISIS army of tyranny and death, who want to raise
the Sharia flag in Washington, is our exceptional military. ISIS and those
groups like it understand one thing -- force.
It is this nation's military might that gives Greenwald and
those like he, whose opinions are always critical of US policy but silent on
the vast killing machine that is Islamic fundamentalism, the freedom to say
what they want. Moreover, those involved
in Snowden's exposure of US classified material have made a gross calculation. Snowden will rot, at least for the next three
years, in Putin's tyranny that is Russia now!
Part of the left to which I am usually allied, I believe, is on this issue playing in left field without a glove.
They better hope that this nation can prevail against this vile menace
that threatens all of us and, make no mistake about it, may be coming to a theater near you.
