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Title: Can A Dying Civilization Defeat ISIS and Radical Islam?
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... defeat-isis-and-radical-islam/
Published: Nov 27, 2015
Author: Tom Tancredo
Post Date: 2015-11-27 17:43:38 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 1823
Comments: 14
By any measure, we are losing the war against ISIS and radical Islam.
A bigger problem is we do not yet realize we are losing or why. Their legions are growing, their ambitions are apocalyptic, and our resolve is as strong as silly putty.
Without question, our military is superior to any other on earth and we could inflict devastating damage to ISIS if we unleashed our military forces against them. But we are not going to do that—not today, not next month and not after the next atrocity strikes Cleveland, Phoenix or Richmond.
- We have a President and his designated replacement-in-waiting who think “climate change” is a greater threat than Islamists with nuclear weapons, and that the way to defeat squads of suicide bombers is to welcome their brothers, sisters and cousins as our neighbors and give them the right to vote.
- But we have a deeper problem than our commander in chief being AWOL. If you ask yourself how he can get away with never uttering the words “radical Islam,” then you might begin uncovering the deeper problem: Obama is not alone in willfully avoiding the truth about an enemy sworn to our destruction. He has many accomplices and coconspirators.
If we are honest we must face a very dark and sobering fact: The outcome of this war is far from certain. We are proud of being a nation of can-do optimists, but we are also a nation in denial about a culture in a tailspin.
- The real enemy is not “over there” in Syria and Iraq, or in Paris or London. The enemy is already here in our homeland, and I am not speaking of terrorist cells, Syrian refugees, or radical imams. I am speaking of the accelerating rot in our own culture.
Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.
- “Where were you, Daddy, when we were waging the war on terror?” Oh, well, I was watching reality TV. On TV, the good guys always defeat the bad guys. And I can always change the channel.
In this besotted condition, we are ill equipped to fight an enemy full of passion, idealism and self-confidence. Islamist suicide bombers believe they are dying for a higher purpose, the greater glory of Allah. What, exactly, are our ideals? The freedom to enjoy pornography and polygamy and 24-hour pizza delivery?
- The war with ISIS and its Islamist allies is what historian Samuel P. Huntington called a “clash of civilizations” in a book by that title in 1996.
- Tocqueville warned us 200 years ago that we would never be defeated by an invader, but we could abandon liberty by adopting a “soft tyranny” of democratic corruption.
- The early 20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter gave a similar warning about the inevitable corruption of morals that comes with capitalism’s triumph. If everything is permitted in an open marketplace, higher values will be replaced by cheaper ones— and there is no principle within pure capitalism to halt that cultural degeneration.
Then in our generation, along comes “multiculturalism” to teach that there are no superior cultures, only different ones. Witchcraft is as much a legitimate personal religion as Christianity or Buddhism if that is what turns you on, and polygamy is just another “lifestyle” with its own cable TV channel.
The great Russian novelist Alexandr Solzhenitsyn saw this deepening hollowness in the West as a global development spanning five centuries, with Soviet Communism only a symptom of lost souls. In his Templeton Lecture in 1983, long before the rise of radical Islam, he warned:
It has become embarrassing to state that evil makes its home in the individual human heart before it enters a political system. Yet it is not considered shameful to make dally concessions to an integral evil. Judging by the continuing landslide of concessions made before the eyes of our very own generation, the West is ineluctably slipping toward the abyss.
ISIS and radical Islam have declared war on us not because of anything we have done—not because we are a friend to Israel and not because we have not yet toppled the bloody Syrian dictator Assad. ISIS and radical Islamists hate us for who we are. The irony is, we ourselves do not know who we are.
The Chinese philosopher Sun Tsu said it best in The Art of War:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
ISIS hates the West as an abominable nest of infidels, infidels who reject the Quran and Shariah Law, and so must be annihilated. We are the obstacle to the new Caliphate. OKAY— got it: We stand against the Caliphate. But what do we stand for? What is our alternative ideal to the Islamist ideal?
Radical Islam’s principles are out there for all to see if they open their eyes. But what are our principles? In truth, they are up for grabs. (1 image)
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The real enemy is not “over there” in Syria and Iraq, or in Paris or London. The enemy is already here in our homeland, and I am not speaking of terrorist cells, Syrian refugees, or radical imams. I am speaking of the accelerating rot in our own culture.
Tancredo is correct.
The problem is that other centers of West4ern culture share that rot.
#2. To: rlk (#1)
The problem is that other centers of West4ern culture share that rot.
Just the ones that embrace liberalism.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#3. To: cranky (#0) (Edited)
“climate change” is a greater threat than Islamists with nuclear weapons,
Now this is an escalation in rhetoric. Obviously if Daesh acquires nuclear weapons that is a game changer and even a dying empire is capable of using nuclear weapons against them.
So forgetting the rhetoric, what we have here is a problem of will. Where once there was coalition of the willing, now there is a coalition of the unwilling or the almost willing. Canada has bowed out, Australia won't commit further resources, the US won't put boots on the ground, France will bomb the crap out of them, so will Britain, Iraq isn't going to do anything but sit on their hands and Turkey's response is to shoot down Russian aircraft. The Kurds, well just maybe they will get Kurdistan afterall
I think it is time we all went home rather than wasting our resources. Daesh will still be there next year, or maybe not. Coming into the northern winter noone is going anywhere, doing anything. For the Russians it must be like a summer holiday
#4. To: cranky, sneakypete (#0)
Radical Islam’s principles are out there for all to see if they open their eyes. But what are our principles? In truth, they are up for grabs.
That is a good question cranky.
It is my belief that people like sneakypete are part of the problem.
You know anti christian values. They hate christian values and want them purged from society.
Pete what do you think our principals are and should be?
Now Pete isn't all bad. He is often right on things. But by in large the values he represents are antithesis to traditional American values.
I've noticed as more people adobp immoral positions and equate them with good. We have been falling.
#5. To: paraclete (#3)
if Daesh
Why have you adopted that word?
I thought about using it then I thought about it. Maybe incorrrectly.
Didn't they start using the word Daesh because they are saying that the Islamic State is not really islamic and they "hijacked" the religioh.
If that is what the word means I would prefer to call the Islamic because ISIS is islamic. Islam is evil
#6. To: A K A Stone (#4)
But what are our principles?
America has become so politically and ethniclly balkenized, I don't believe anyone can answer that question.
But my guess is whatever replaces the Constitution and what used to be the American way of life is not going to a good place to be a white, heterosexual Christian.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#7. To: A K A Stone (#4)
You know anti christian values. They hate christian values and want them purged from society.Pete what do you think our principals are and should be?
They don't involve starting Holy Wars or discriminating against non-believers.
That's for Bible and Koran thumpers like you and your Muslim pals.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#8. To: A K A Stone (#5)
Why have you adopted that word?I thought about using it then I thought about it. Maybe incorrrectly.
Didn't they start using the word Daesh because they are saying that the Islamic State is not really islamic and they "hijacked" the religioh.
The way *I* heard it explains,ISIS was going to change their name to Daesh,but then something happened that made them think it was a non or anti-Islamic term,so they quit using it and punish/kill everyone they can get their hands on that uses it.
IOW,people in the west are now using it to piss them off.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#9. To: cranky (#6)
But my guess is whatever replaces the Constitution and what used to be the American way of life is not going to a good place to be a white, heterosexual Christian.
It's not going to be a good place for anybody because there will be a state of anarchy until it is finally stamped out by the police state that ends up taking over.
The police state that will strangely enough be ran by the very people who have been shouting for "Equal Rights" (special rights) for minorities and every other law that served to destroy our system of government.
Gee,WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
#10. To: sneakypete (#9)
It's not going to be a good place for anybody
I have a feeling the one tenth of one percent will do okay.
And maybe they'll get that population reduction they've been looking for.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#11. To: cranky (#10)
They won't enjoy it for long. Things have a way of happening. Police States have a way of being born and die in short periods of time. The American Dream was good for a time, but the people started going bad. Then, God took away His hand of protection.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
#12. To: cranky (#0)
Can A Dying Civilization Defeat ISIS and Radical Islam?
A dying civilization will defeat itself. It's a recurrent lesson taught by history. No advanced civilization has ever survived the softness and degeneracy enabled by its previous successes.
#13. To: Don (#11)
Then, God took away His hand of protection.
As good an explanation as any.
Personally, I blame the second and third generation political hacks that have run this country for the last five or six decades.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#14. To: A K A Stone (#5)
Why have you adopted that word?
It is actually an acromyn for the name of their organisation in arabic however the word when pronounced is an insult so that is why I use it, not to give them legitimacy but to insult them.
Daesh: This is a term the militant group hates. It’s an Arabic acronym for “al- Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham.” It can sometimes be spelled DAIISH, Da'esh or Daech, a popular French version. The hacktivist group Anonymous and President Barack Obama have used the term since the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.
Thanks to Arabic wordplay, it could also be an insult. “Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, it can mean anything from ‘to trample down and crush’ to ‘a bigot who imposes his view on others,'
I think is appropriate
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