INTERNATIONAL READERSHIP is something that one ought to pay attention to when posting a blog, and I have not done that very well.
As I learn how to utilize this media my first thoughts were of local and national politics, and my posts were of my views on those subjects.
Now the recent elections are over, my only comments are that I fear the results even though the recent rhetoric states that "bipartisanship" will be the newest password in the land. That remains to be seen! Unfortunately if theory is correct the Democratic politicians believe that government is the answer to all our problems, and if there is a problem the government will solve that problem, and all it takes is the appropriate money to pay for the very governmental unit that will be created to solve the problem. They seem to fail to realize that taxation has been the motivator for lots of conflict in our history, in fact beginning with the very formation of our country based on "taxation without representation".
SO TIME WILL TELL, and we will watch closely to see how things go from here!
REAL PURPOSE OF THIS PARTICULAR POSTING is to make comments about the most important conflict in this world today!
TERRORISM!!! As a student trying to learn the reasoning and rational behind the movement of the terrorists around the world it seems to come down to one word, RELIGION!!!
We in the US cannot understand the thinking of those who are intense on killing all who do not belong to their religion. This country (the US) was founded on the principles of freedom, primarily religious freedom, but freedom in general. ALL existing citizens of this country have never known anything BUT religious freedom!
Now there has arisen an element (mostly in foreign lands, primarily the "middle East") that is determined that all people must convert to Islam OR ELSE!
As my studying of the subject has revealed, they are determined to take over the world based on this intense desire for all to belong to their religion!
AND THEIR RELIGION TEACHES THAT THOSE THAT ARE NOT OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION NEED TO BE KILLED!!!!!
The press release of last week whereby one of the El Quida leaders (perhaps self proclaimed), stated the ultimate desire to blow up the White House, allow the US troops to stay in Iraq longer so they could kill more of them, and "shed more blood" pretty much spells it out.
In the statement this IDIOT calls President Bush and our military "cowards". What a joke!!! These terrorists who hide behind and among the civilians, lurk in the shadows, kill their own people are calling those ready to stand forward defend against these actions COWARDS!!!!
Our own "political correctness" has gotten us into this mess! An example of that was the Abu Graib fiasco. This was not much more than a frat house initiation, yet the "do gooders" of the world came all up in arms because the people that had been trying to kill us we made to walk around in their underwear and became afraid when dogs barked at them!! They talk of being made to stand for long periods of time, and it was suggested that the length of time was more than 4 or 5 hours. I know several people that have to do that everyday, it's called a JOB!!!
BACK TO THE POINT!! Refresh your memory, and your history, go back to the subject of the CRUSADES! Now I'm no history expert but recall that the Crusades were religious wars many years ago, before people became civilized and somehow realized that allow your neighbor to worship in a manner different than oneself was not really a problem. We in this country have evolved to the belief of "live and let live", meaning that as long as your neighbors actions are legal, then he should be allowed to do as he wishes, so long as no one is hurt!!!
WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO ALL THIS!!!
One will remember that in 1945 the solution to stop the killing of Americans and Japaneese was to release an awesome power on the source of the problem, the peoples who "started it all", the Japaneese. At that time no one ever heard of "political correctness", and although it was terrible, IT STOPPED THE BLOODSHED!!!
If these terrorists are determined to continue as they have been, to cowardly to stand forward and fight for THEIR beliefs then after they have finally pissed off enough people the solution might be to eliminate them just as was done in Japan. This, of course, will probably never happen and could only happen when the entire worlds governments all agreed that terrorism has to stop, but bottom line is to annilate the cowardly bastards that wish to kill all others for no REAL reason!
Keep one thought in mind----as you perhaps feel my message is WAY TO STRONG--- just realize if there were a way that the terrorist organizations could NUKE the US ----THEY WOULD MOST CERTAINLY DO SO WITHOUT ANY HESITATION WHAT SO EVER!!!!