HISTORY LESSON

> SOME OF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT
> NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN
> AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WW II MOST OF YOU
> DON'T REMEMBER THE
> RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO
> TIRES FOR OUR
> AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR
> ON THE ROAD, NOT TO
> MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES. READ THIS AND THINK
> ABOUT HOW WE WOULD
> REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGN POWERS IN 2008.
>
>
> This is an EXCELLENT essay . Well thought out and
> presented.
>
> Historical Significance for today's world:
>
> Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun
> almost all of Europe and
> hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and
> defeat. The Nazis had
> sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys
> between England and
> America taking food and war materials
>
> At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist
> mood, and most
> Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or
> the Asian war
>
> Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 ,
> and in outrage
> Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the
> following day on
> Germany , who had not yet attacked us . It was a
> dicey thing . We had
> few allies
>
> France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of
> France quickly
> aligned itself with its German occupiers . Germany
> was certainly not an
> ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand
> Year Reich in
> Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on
> its way to owning and
> controlling all of Asia.
>
> Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of
> invading Canada and
> Mexico , as launching pads to get into the United
> States over our
> northern and southern borders, after they finished
> gaining control of
> Asia and Europe.
>
> America's only allies then were England , Ireland ,
> Scotland , Canada ,
> Australia, and Russia That was about it All of
> Europe, from Norway to
> Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under
> the Nazi heel .
>
> The US was certainly not prepared for war. The US
> had drastically
> downgraded most of its military forces after WW I
> because of the
> depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army
> units were training
> with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and
> cars with "tank"
> painted on the doors because they didn't have real
> tanks A huge chunk of
> our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl
> Harbor.
>
> Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the
> donation of $600
> million in gold bullion in the Bank of England (that
> was actually the
> property of Belgium ) given by Belgium to England to
> carry on the war
> when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known
> fact).
>
> Actually, Belgium surrendered on one day, because it
> was unable to
> oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed
> Brussels into rubble
> the next day just to prove they could
>
> Britain had already been holding out for two years
> in the face of
> staggering losses and the near decimation of its
> Royal Air Force in the
> Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun
> by Germany only
> because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the
> Brits were a relatively
> minor threat that could be dealt with later.
> Hitler, first turned his
> attention to Russia, in the late summer of 1940 at a
> time when England
> was on the verge of collapse.
>
> Ironically, Russia saved America 's butt by putting
> up a desperate fight
> for two years, until the US got geared up to begin
> hammering away at
> Germany
>
> Russia lost something like 24,000,000 people in the
> sieges of Stalingrad
> and Moscow alone . . 90% of them from cold and
> starvation, mostly
> civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers
>
> Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able
> to focus his entire
> war effort against the Brits, then America. If that
> had happened, the
> Nazis could possibly have won the war
>
> All of this has been brought out to illustrate that
> turning points in
> history are often dicey things. Now, we find
> ourselves at another one
> of those key moments in history.
>
> There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that
> either has, or wants,
> and may soon have, the ability to deliver small
> nuclear, biological, or
> chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world .
>
> The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically
> Nazis in Kaffiyahs --
> they believe that Islam, a radically conservative
> form of Wahhabi Islam,
> should own and control the Middle East first, then
> Europe, then the
> world. To them, all who do not bow to their will of
> thinking should be
> killed, enslaved, or subjugated . They want to
> finish the Holocaust,
> destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews . This
> is their mantra .
> (goal)
>
> There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East
> -- for the most part
> not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having
> its Inquisition and
> its Reformation, but it is not yet known which side
> will win -- the
> Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.
>
> If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the
> Jihadis, will control
> the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US, European,
> and Asian
> economies.
>
> The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy
> of OPEC -- not an
> OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of
> today, but an OPEC
> dominated by the Jihadis. Do you want gas in your
> car? Do you want
> heating oil next winter? Do you want the dollar to
> be worth anything?
> You had better hope the Jihad, the Muslim
> Inquisition, loses, and the
> Islamic Reformation wins.
>
> If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the
> moderate Muslims who
> believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other
> religions, live in
> peace with the rest of the world, and move out of
> the 10th century into
> the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will
> eventually fade
> away. A moderate and prosperous Middle East will
> emerge.
>
> We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that
> we have to fight the
> Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad,
> Al Qaeda and the
> Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it
> somewhere. We can't do
> it everywhere at once. We have created a focal
> point for the battle at
> a time and place of our choosing . . . . . . . . in
> Iraq . Not in New
> York , not in London , or Paris or Berlin , but in
> Iraq, where we are
> doing two important things.
>
> (1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam
> Hussein was directly
> involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack or not, it is
> undisputed that
> Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist
> movement for decades
> Saddam is a terrorist! Saddam is, or was, a weapon
> of mass
> destruction, responsible for the deaths of probably
> more than a
> 1,000,000 Iraqis and 2,000,000 Iranians
>
> (2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash
> point, with Islamic
> terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We
> are killing bad
> people, and the ones we get there we won't have to
> get here. We also
> have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful
> Iraq, which will be
> a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the
> Middle East, and an
> outpost for a stabilizing American military presence
> in the Middle East
> for as long as it is needed .
>
> WW II, the war with the Japanese and German Nazis,
> really began with a
> "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl
> Harbor. It began with
> the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for
> fourteen years before
> the US joined it. It officially ended in 1945 -- a
> 17 year war -- and
> was followed by another decade of US occupation in
> Germany and Japan to
> get those countries reconstructed and running on
> their own a gain . a 27
> year war.
>
> WW II cost the United States an amount equal to
> approximately a full
> year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about
> $12 trillion
> dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000
> soldiers killed in
> action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
>
> The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States
> about $160,000,000,000,
> which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack cost
> New York. It has
> also cost about 3,000 American lives, which is
> roughly equivilant to
> lives that the Jihad killed (within the United
> States) in the 9/11
> terrorist attack
>
> The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would
> have been unimaginably
> greater -- a world dominated by Japanese Imperialism
> and German Nazism .
>
> This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie
> in which everything
> comes out okay . The real world is not like that.
> It is messy,
> uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. It always
> has been, and
> probably always will be .
>
> The bottom line is that we will have to deal with
> Islamic terrorism
> until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not
> go away if we ignore
> it
>
> If the US can create a reasonably democratic and
> stable Iraq, then we
> have an ally, like England , in the Middle East, a
> platform, from which
> we can work to help modernize and moderate the
> Middle East. The history
> of the world is the clash between the forces of
> relative civility and
> civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the
> gates to conquer the
> world.
>
> The Iraq War is merely another battle in this
> ancient and never ending
> war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians
> are about to get
> nuclear weapons. Unless some body prevents them
> from getting them.
>
> We have four options:
>
> 1 . We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets
> nuclear weapons.
>
> 2 . We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets
> nuclear weapons (which
> may be as early as next year, if Iran 's progress on
> nuclear weapons is
> what Iran claims it is).
>
> 3 . We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its
> dominance in the Middle
> East now; in Europe in the next few years or
> decades, and ultimately in
> America.
>
> OR
>
> 4 . We can stand down now, and pick up the fight
> later when the Jihad is
> more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the
> Jihad has dominated
> France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of
> Europe. It will, of
> course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much
> bloodier.
>
> If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea
> that your children, or
> grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under
> the Mullahs and the
> Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.
>
> The history of the world is the history of
> civilization clashes,
> cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas
> about what society
> and civilization should be like, and the most
> determined always win.
>
> Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always
> win . The pacifists
> always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them .
>
> Remember, perspective is every thing, and America 's
> schools teach too
> little history for perspective to be clear,
> especially in the young
> American mind.
>
> The Cold War lasted from about 1947 at least until
> the Berlin Wall came
> down in 1989; forty-two years!
>
> Europe spent the first half of the 19th century
> fighting Napoleon, and
> from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany !
>
> World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a
> ten year occupation,
> and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan .
> World War II
> resulted in the death of more than 50,000,000
> people, maybe more than
> 100,000,000 people, depending on which estimates you
> accept.
>
> The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in
> Iraq.. The US took
> more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of
> June 6, 1944 , the
> first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of
> Nazi Imperialism.
>
> In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for
> four years. Most of
> the individual battles of WW II lost more Americans
> than the entire Iraq
> war has done so far
>
> The stakes are at least as high . . A world
> dominated by representative
> governments with civil rights, human rights, and
> personal freedoms . .
> or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi
> movement, by the
> Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic
> law) .
>
> It's difficult to understand why the average
> American does not grasp
> this. They favor human rights, civil rights,
> liberty and freedom, but
> evidently not for Iraqis.
>
> "Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in
> America , where
> it's safe.
>
> Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in
> Iran , Syria , Iraq ,
> Sudan , North Korea , in the places that really need
> peace activism the
> most? I'll tell you why! They would be killed!
>
> The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human
> rights, civil rights,
> democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if
> the Jihad wins,
> wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil
> rights, human rights,
> democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.
>
> Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are
> coming down on the side
> of their own worst enemy!
>
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> Raymond S.Kraft is a writer living in Northern
> California that has
> studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion
>
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> Please consider passing along copies of this article
> to friends and
> students as it contains information about our
> American past that is very
> meaningful today -- history about America that very
> likely is mostly
> unknown by many of us (and our instructors, too).
> By being denied the
> facts of our history, we are at a decided
> disadvantage when it comes to
> reasoning and thinking through the issues of today.
> We are prime
> targets for misinformation campaigns beamed at
> enlisting us in liberal
> causes and beliefs that are special interest agenda
> driven. I am not
> advocating war, just wanting to understand the
> greater picture and
> preserving our country's independence.
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