The Enemy is Already Identified -

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Jun 20, 2008 at 18:32

While the previous posting of our host spoke to the actualities on the ground, where Israel prepares for the inevitable after being named as the target by Iran's president for elimination, that preparation is necessary for a action that has all the probabilities of occurring, given the propensities of the potential combatants to act when action is called for.

Iran's president makes his assertions of action against Israel in the dual capacity of a declared enemy of Israel for personal reasons, as well as the leader of a nation sworn to diminish and eliminate Israel as a matter of national policy, subscribed to under the influences of the Islamic Republic being governed by the religious elite of Iran. Subliminal to that, but not necessarily covert to the intent is the topic of the discussion of this post, that of naming the enemy in order to identify and specify a target.

There is reason that, after centuries of history trying to deal with Islamic sensibilities that have changed very little as the rest of the world progresses with religion and varying philosophies, we find adherents of the Islamic Prophet still strong in their belief system, that were it not for the truth found in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures, the Tanakh and the Brit Hadassah, there would be compelling arguments to become Muslim.

It is the premise here that to fight an enemy, one must be able to understand the nature, the strategy and the tactics so that a countering strategy and tactic may be employed to defeat the enemy. Hence, for identification, a name is given. But in this instance, the name chosen tends not to clarify, but to confuse in the identification of an hostile with intent to do us harm.

Prior to September 11, 2001, we knew of the enemy called by his religious nom familier, for we (the United States) have been encountering Muslim warriors from the beginning of the American Republic, and later since the influences of America went outright global after the Spanish American war in the late eighteen hundreds.

They were fought against in North Africa, the Philippines, in the Middle East before there was even a renewed Israel, and many other locations as America established her presence in the world community. As much as there is such experience, one would think that by now, not only can a name be associated with a people, that individual faces of those that would do us harm would be common knowledge. Oh wait, there is such a list; and there are names.

The problem is, that in this world where being politically correct is taking over being sovereignly solvent, that to call the enemy what he is and who he is becomes confusing.

This is not to say that all who call themselves Muslim are enemy combatants; to the contrary, many who do practice their beliefs do so in a way that does no harm to others. But being like and acting like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Usama bin Laden, or carrying a torch for the likes of these fellows makes a Muslim like that definitely of the other sort, and that is proper identification of the enemy.

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