Judging by what one hears from the UN and the World News Media, George W. Bush and his Republican followers are the greatest threat to the worlds harmony since Genghis Kahn.
The truth is, George W. Bush and America’s Conservatives, are the primary obstacle to the hopes for world domination of two major political movements. One, the radical Islamist ideology that envisions a Muslim world under a supreme Caliph, and two, the world Socialist Movement that envision one world under a charismatic Socialist leader.
The desires of these two movements are not entirely incompatible. Socialism functions very well within Islam and under Shiah Law, as the Bath Party in Iraq so ably demonstrated. Both ideologies depend on an all powerful leader to interpret the law, or rule, as set down in their founding documents. And both ideologies kill the human spirit by suppressing it to enforced order and conformity. Throughout the fundamentalist Muslim world and in every nation under orthodox socialist rule, the common man is un-inventive, dispirited and poor in material things.
Even before September 11, 2001 there was evidence of co-operation between the Muslim world and the Socialist world as many young mullahs were going to Russia to complete their education. But it was mainly after 9/11 that the two great ideologies found common cause against their common enemy George W. Bush and those who supported his resistance against the radical Islamists ideology.
The “Left” throughout the world saw the chance to discredit and bring down the capitalist conservative philosophy by being sure it was defeated in Iraq. The “anti war” movement in America and throughout the world was never anti war when Bill Clinton was bombing Bosnia. They were only anti war when a Republican was President of the United States. Early on it was obvious that the glue, the cohesive force that was holding the anti war movement together was hatred of George Bush.
Now in the United States, the Democrat Party - with the help of the liberal press - having gained control of Congress by bringing down America’s belief in its ability to win the war, has made an official proclamation that the people it represents want to give up and run away. All those who wish to defeat the United States have to do is continue what they are doing and the United States will quit. There can be no clearer way of giving aid and comfort to the enemy than the passage of this resolution. (non-binding or not)
In the short run the Democrats will probably accomplish their goal. They will humiliate the President and discredit the Republican Party, but at what cost? Given this encouragement, the terror attacks on Iraqi civilians and police will continue and probably increase, the roadside IEDs will increase and grow more sophisticated, the death toll will grow ever higher and the desire to “redeploy” our troops home will increase. The war between the Western non Muslim societies and radical Islamist ideology will be much harder to win.
What the Democrats, and the few Republicans that are going along with them, fail to understand is; we are not just in a war with insurgents in Iraq that we can walk away from, we are in a world wide war between competing ideologies. On one side Western capitalist democracy, and on the other the totalitarian ideologies of Islam and Socialism. Iraq is just the current battle field. All sides know their victory on this battlefield will seriously cripple their opponent in the larger war. But, victory or defeat on this battlefield will not end the war. The war will go on until one of the three sides wins. Right now the worlds Muslim fundamentalists and the worlds proto Socialists are allied against the West. Should the Western Democratic Capitalists loose their nerve and quit the battle or attempt to withdraw behind our own borders, that will be the end of the greatest experiment in human freedom the world ever knew. The battle would then be between two totalitarian ideologies and it would really make little difference which one won.
The United States as the most powerful of the Western Democratic Capitalists has been involved in a number of battles in the 20th Century. In not one of them have we sought to keep land which we have freed from oppression, nor have we sought to impose a totalitarian form of government on them. But in the currant world view, every time we attempt to liberate from oppression, or defend from attack we are accused of being the aggressors. The truth is we are not the aggressors, we are the obstacle to aggression.
