And Then The World Exploded

When I read that Barrack Hussein Obama, presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States, had uttered words like "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it," before an adoring throng of Berliners, I got confused. It's almost as if the senator from Illinois seems to suggest that this 'well' is something that the US (or the West in general) has dug, and then thrown the 'extremism' in it. In other words, it's somehow 'all our fault' and we need fix it.

That has all kinds of bad implications, though this claptrap is typical of the Liberal/Left Wing crowd that Mr. Obama comes from. He might as well have stood before the very same crowd of 200,000 and said 'we caused 9/11 and are guilty of terrorism' - and chances are, they STILL would have cheered him wildly.

Call me a redneck but Mr. Obama does not symbolize to me the 'hope' that US foreign policy might take a 'new' direction. In fact, if he does get elected (he won't but some people need to dream, right?), his new policies will be a repeat of the old ones; that of 'blaming the rich' and the powerful for the problems of the poor and the weak. That's because Mr. Obama wants to attack the symptoms of the disease instead of the disease itself.

That 'disease' wasn't sparked by the US support of Israel, or the presence of its troops in the Middle East. It's also not caused by poverty or a lack of education as many of the best-known terrorists are highly educated people themselves, and come from well-to-do families. Nor it is this 'disease' a result of America being the richest and most powerful nation on the planet and is somehow 'oppressing' people to secure it's own selfish ends. This disease is called ignorance, and the only cure for that is truth; a truth no one wants to admit because it would undermine many of the wild notions held dear by people like Mr. Obama.

US actions, are simply a response to that, not the catalyst for it. This view, however, is anathema to Mr. Obama and the Democrats, whose political mantra has always been that 'it's our fault and we need to fix it.' That approach might play well to that small segment of the public who take a perverse pleasure from begging forgiveness from the extremists (and their sponsors) for the evil they inflict upon them. But it also betrays the cause for which so many brave men and women have died and are dying right now.

These soldiers and statesmen, a group of people far more noble than capitulationists like Mr. Obama, have died fighting for the truth, and for the liberty of those now living in ignorance, so that they can lead peaceful and productive lives. In fact, the reason why terrorism and extremism exist in these tyrannical Middle East societies is because those are the only weapons such countries have against the steady advance of freedom and liberty throughout the world. They see it as a threat to the established order, an order that suits those who have and enjoy the benefits and perks of power and are not willing to give it up.

Like the Nazis, the Soviet Union, China and other Communist and Islamic regimes today, these modern-day Fascists fear the truth because the truth leads to freedom, and this is incompatible with their goals. So they resort to terror, knowing that a heads-up fight with either the US or Israeli army would result in their utter defeat and overthrow. Then they justify their actions in the guise of nationalist or religious zeal, while continuing to create the kinds of societies that breed yet more ignorance, extremism, terrorism, and tyranny.

That is why when I hear Mr. Obama, talk of defeating "terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" by withdrawing US and allied forces, I get rather confused. Our troops, after all, are there fighting to DEFEAT terror and extremism by building free societies where such things cannot take root. Unlike Mr. Obama, however, I believe that the first step in this process is to move away from Liberal-inspired guilt and reject the bizarre notion that the 'rich' and the 'powerful' are always to blame for the problems of the poor and the weak.

Instead we need to support our troops, take our lumps, and never lose sight of the ultimate goal of bringing truth and freedom to those now living in ignorance and oppression. When we do that, when every citizen in whatever country he or she may dwell in can live without fear of arbitrary arrest or torture, can worship whatever they want without consequences, and think and speak their minds openly regardless of what the government says then, and ONLY then, will Mr. Obama's "the well of extremism" dry up and the source of terror abate.

Too bad he and his Liberal/Left-wing horde can't grasp that. Instead they see 200,000 cheering people in a foreign country, and then congratulate themselves on their 'wisdom.' But it is the wisdom of the Lemming as it races off a cliff, not the wisdom of those who truly wish to bring peace, liberty, and justice to the world.

Ironically enough, 70 years ago, another large crowd cheered another 'great' leader, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain. It was he who, after visiting Germany and meeting Adolph Hitler, returned with the promise that he had brought 'Peace for our time' by caving in to tyranny. A year later, the world exploded.

Sincerely,
I.M. Ulysses