Winds of War: How Liberal Would Fight the War on Terror

A recent editorial in the Khaleej Times, the No.1 English language daily newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, seems to have taken a page out of the liberal left playbook on how to fight the misnamed War on Terror.

According to the editorial,

"Americans feel that if the United States should win the larger war, namely the War on Terror, it must use peaceful non-military tools.” The editorial goes on quote that some media surveys – get that? Media surveys? And you know what media that is - have found "surprising consensus" among bipartisan experts on this matter. “
“While these experts want continuation of the War on Terror, for obvious reasons, they want it be waged not by gun, and not by bloodshed. Lives are important for Americans and they understand the importance of peace and law and order. Hence, while they want the anti-terror campaign continued, they want it conducted by way of non-violent means, like persuasion-by preaching and by prompting.”

There you have it. “Preaching” and gentle “prompting” will make the jihadists roll over in submission and immediately cease their Jihad against the free democracies.

The editorial goes on.

“Such an endeavour can be undertaken by giving the rest of the world, be it the Middle East, or countries like North Korea, an example of how good the America systems are; how these systems take care of the needs and aspirations of the people, in a way that there is little scope for people to be misled into dangerous ways. This would be in marked contrast to the dictatorial ways that have left people in misery and want-situations that help terror gangs.”

Yes. That’s it. America and the opportunity of freedom that it presents is little known by the down trodden of the world literally dying to get into this country. It’s those very freedoms that the Islamists and their handmaiden the jihadists are seeking to destroy. I think it’s safe to say that the world is quite aware of what America represents since our way of life is what the jihadists have preached to their followers as the threat to Islam and their civilization.

And then this piece of historical ignorance.

“America neutralized its bitter Cold War rival, the Soviet Union, not by waging a war, but by spreading the message of freedom and democracy to the peoples who were caught in totalitarian ways of governance for long years. The Eastern Bloc of Europe, under the Soviet orbit, changed their political perspectives after they came to know what they have missed in their lives. That realization-and not bullets-changed their lives for ever. Eventually, the whole of Soviet Union crumbled like a pack of cards.”

“….after they came to know what they have missed in their lives”. Yep. That’s what did it. One day the communists woke up and realized freedom was the way and tossed communism into the trash bin of history. I don’t know how old the write of this editorial is, but I remember that we won the Cole War by literally bankrupting the Soviets in an arms race and its economy collapsed under its own weight.

Both the writer of this editorial and the liberal left enjoy the fantasy that the proper use of military force, the forcible removal of those who teach jihad in our country, forcing the closing down of organizations that support the Islamist agenda, and eavesdropping on their conversations to prevent them from attacking us again, are not the proper way to wage a war.

Kerry and Dean must be very happy that an Arab newspaper supports their version of fighting the ‘war on terror’. A dubious support considering the source.