Middle-East Final Solution?
by MG William Flatt
On September 7, I was listening to radio talk-show host Michael Savage, a conservative independent commentator whom I generally enjoy listening to. I occasionally disagree with his views, when he strays into anti-religion demagoguery, among other shortcomings.
Yesterday I found myself picking my jaw up off the floor, however, after being shocked to my core what an extremist Mr. Savage really is. His hatred for all things Islamic know no bounds; I've seen bigotry before but not as ugly as Savage was with this rant. It left me with a strong disinclination for listening to his show ever since. His rabidly Zionist prejudice leaves him unable to reason that Islam is nothing more than a religion of hate and death.
Of course, most rational Americans know this is false, especially freedom-loving and peaceful American Muslims. It is as false as the idea that Israel is a freedom-loving nation that would never oppress its Palestinian neighbors. Israeli moderates are as upset about the extremist policies of their government as American patriots are about our government's move towards a totalitarian police state. Savage's rhetoric left me thinking that to peoples of other nations, America must seem like a hate filled "evil empire", if we are to be judged by the people who command our airwaves, print media, public offices and policy think tanks..
It is sometimes easy to argue that Islam is a religion prone to extremism because of awful tragedies like the massacre in Beslan, where hundreds of children and their parents were executed in a rural school in a small country. This is more prominent in light of the fact that other religions are not "synonymous" with terrorism; there is no worldwide campaign of terror being waged by Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Pagans, or Hindus (Talk about Karma?!)..
It's counter-intuitive.
But the opinion of the day is not what had my mandible ricocheting off the macadam. It was Savage's sincere belief that the use of Dresden-style carpet-bombing or even the use of nuclear weapons to end the insurgency is an appropriate way to save American soldiers' lives.
The very use of WMD's in a country that we preemptively invaded to prevent their possible future use of WMD strikes me as not only hypocritical, but dangerously irresponsible! Although it is possible that the use of nuclear weapons could indeed terrorize the terrorists into submission (not to mention the rest of that part of the world), it more likely that it would compel terrorists to use nukes in retaliation ~ weapons that they claim are already in their possession ~ and that's a hell of a price to pay for unintended consequences!
Ominously, such a war policy toward terrorism would necessitate the nuclear obliteration of nearly one-eighth of the nations of the world, whose policy has been to support Islamic terrorism, genocide, or weapons proliferation. I'm talking about most of Africa and most of the nations within 2,000 miles of the equator on all continents. Obviously, such a policy is utterly insane, but so would be deploying nukes in Iraq alone. This nation's leadership is already guilty of one of the great democides of the late 20th & 21st centuries, namely the deaths of over 1 million Iraqis by violence, famine, and more between 1991 and 2000, and another 120,000 Iraqis since we invaded in 2003.
America is not prepared to make an enemy of one quarter of the world through the reckless pursuit of a globalist agenda, claiming to fight terrorism while engaging in terrorism. We are not prepared to take this fight to the "next level" and not merely risk, but guarantee, a nuclear detonation on American soil.
For years we have known that Russian spec-op 'suitcase' nukes have been missing from the former Soviet arsenals, that Al-Qaeda has obtained some of these suitcase nukes. With our unsecure borders, we are wide open for an attack with hellish consequences.
Already we may have guaranteed such an outcome with our present policies and actions; Al-Qaeda claims they already have nukes in America and plan on using them if our government doesn't disengage itself from the Middle East, completely and fully.
Do we belong in the Middle East? By all rights we have no mandate, and according to the Constitution and the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, we are wrong to be so interventionist. We would be wrong to use the nuclear option, now that we are so far along into an occupation of a country that never presented a threat to us. While we have to do all that we can to support our soldiers who have been ordered to go there, we have to do all that we can to oppose and remove politicians who insist on making choices that are clearly NOT in America's best interests.
Let's hope, at the very least, that the people running this nation don't share Mr. Savage's penchant for extreme solutions. However, given the fact that they tend to label reasonable and freedom-loving patriotic Americans as 'extremists', I am doubtful that they would resist the option if circumstances change.
Postscript: To anti-American, left-wing hate groups out there; you had better look at the neo-'conservative' movement. They are the real right-wing extremists. They have control over the nuclear panic button and are not afraid to use it. Most Americans would agree with us in the militia that this insanity must be opposed and stopped.
