Not Our War
Pat Buchanan asks:
Why indeed? A bunch of people in the West currently have their panties all bunched up over that barbequed Jordanian pilot. It's an understandable reaction to a particularly gruesome killing. But let's step back and analyze this situation for what it really is, rather than allowing emotion to carry the day.
The favorite pastime of Muslims is killing each other. That's been true since the day Mohammed died and his lieutenants fell to fighting amongst themselves. The chaos which ensued was the catalyst which caused the final breakup of the Second Persian Empire two decades later and plunged the entire Middle East into a near-constant state of conflict. The whole history of Islam is soaked in blood, an endless series of caliphate wars which they occasionally stopped just long enough to kill Jews and Christians when the opportunity presented itself. They are opportunistic and duplicitous; that has not changed in 14 centuries and I can't see any reason why it would do so now.
Twenty-four years ago this month, my unit was sweeping through the trenches around Al Wafrah airfield in Kuwait. I can very clearly remember coming across hundreds of ammunition crates labeled "Made in Jordan." They were -- theoretically, at any rate -- our ally. With friends like those, as the saying goes. Given a choice, Muslims will always back Muslims. That's the code, and no amount of "civilizing" from Western culture will change it. Their only interest in Western civilization is how it can temporarily serve their needs to meet the desired end: the conquest of the world by Islam. They are incapable of imagining any other goal, because the entire religion is built around that very principle.
As long as Muslims are in the majority in the Middle East, this sort of thing will continue unabated. The argument that we must intervene in order to prevent the region from "destabilizing" is specious hogwash; the region hasn't been stable since the 7th century.
I've no interest whatsoever in helping the Muslims fight their latest civil war -- and neither should you. If the Muslims want to bomb, burn and otherwise kill and mutilate each other, we should be selling them weapons, not sending American blood into harm's way.
If the Turks and Sunni Arabs are unwilling to put boots on the ground in Syria, why should we? Why should America, half a world away, have to provide those troops rather than nations that are more immediately threatened and have armies near at hand?
Why is defeating 30,000 ISIS jihadists our job, and not theirs?
Why indeed? A bunch of people in the West currently have their panties all bunched up over that barbequed Jordanian pilot. It's an understandable reaction to a particularly gruesome killing. But let's step back and analyze this situation for what it really is, rather than allowing emotion to carry the day.
The favorite pastime of Muslims is killing each other. That's been true since the day Mohammed died and his lieutenants fell to fighting amongst themselves. The chaos which ensued was the catalyst which caused the final breakup of the Second Persian Empire two decades later and plunged the entire Middle East into a near-constant state of conflict. The whole history of Islam is soaked in blood, an endless series of caliphate wars which they occasionally stopped just long enough to kill Jews and Christians when the opportunity presented itself. They are opportunistic and duplicitous; that has not changed in 14 centuries and I can't see any reason why it would do so now.
Twenty-four years ago this month, my unit was sweeping through the trenches around Al Wafrah airfield in Kuwait. I can very clearly remember coming across hundreds of ammunition crates labeled "Made in Jordan." They were -- theoretically, at any rate -- our ally. With friends like those, as the saying goes. Given a choice, Muslims will always back Muslims. That's the code, and no amount of "civilizing" from Western culture will change it. Their only interest in Western civilization is how it can temporarily serve their needs to meet the desired end: the conquest of the world by Islam. They are incapable of imagining any other goal, because the entire religion is built around that very principle.
As long as Muslims are in the majority in the Middle East, this sort of thing will continue unabated. The argument that we must intervene in order to prevent the region from "destabilizing" is specious hogwash; the region hasn't been stable since the 7th century.
I've no interest whatsoever in helping the Muslims fight their latest civil war -- and neither should you. If the Muslims want to bomb, burn and otherwise kill and mutilate each other, we should be selling them weapons, not sending American blood into harm's way.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 12:44
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