“Fear us,” said bin Laden’s al-Queda. And the Americans feared them. They involved the West in foreign wars that nobody has won.
The people who call themselves an Islamic State say “Fear us.” And they have involved the West in foreign wars that nobody can win.
Did we learn nothing back in the time of Saladin and the Crusaders? Did we not understand the fate of Gordon in Khartoum at the hands of the Mahdi? Did we really believe the silly propaganda about a poor War I soldier they called Lawrence of Arabia?
First the French and then the Americans were defeated by the jungles of South East Asia. The Americans and their allies faired as poorly against the opium poppy growers of Afghanistan as the Russians and the British before them.
And for all the lives lost and damaged in the search for Osama bin Laden, it was technology, the CIA and a small U.S. Navy Seal team that finally spelled his end.
Now the French have every right to feel enraged and vulnerable. After the Paris attacks, they want revenge. It is the World Trade Center redux. And the noose on our freedoms is tightening. All countries of the West share the concern.
But will we let these hoodlums, these brigands, with their false piety, corruption and child-like use of the Internet, call the tune? We have the technology to end the money trails to these false prophets of Allah. And without the money from the Arabian Peninsula and stolen oil, the criminals of the faux Caliphate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant will soon wither and fade in the desert sands.
Why can we not realize that bombs are worthless without boots on the ground? You have to send armies after armies, planes against planes, ships to sink ships, bandits know bandits, spies counter spies, and terrorists terrorize terrorists. The French know the truth of that. We have to stop playing the game and simply win. We have the might and the technology, the intelligence and we have the right to seek justice.
But Canada has no place in making useless war. Despite the agony of our friends in France, we have to remove Canadian planes from the wasted bombing of the desert sands. We have to determine who should be helped in the quest for peace in the Middle East. We have to encourage others to join in supporting peace.
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Copyright 2015 © Peter Lowry
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