Domenic Pepe is correct

Submitted by Janusz Kowalik (United States), Jun 22, 2008 at 22:53

I wish to congratulate Domenic Pepe for his honest and clear definition of our enemy. He does not say much about the possible Western response but no matter what options we choose we must show strength and determination to defend our civilization against the barbaric brutal Islam that has been expanding by the sword from the 7th century.

Europeans several times successfully resisted Islamic hordes. For example in 1683 Polish king Jan II Sobieski defeated at Vienna the Ottoman Empire army .He was called the Savior of the European civilization . Even Turks called him The LIon of Lechistan. Thanks to this victory Europe is not now an Islamic republic.

Now we should follow this example and defend the Western civilization by using our economic, technological and military strenght. As we have experienced in the confrontation with fascism any apeasement does not avert wars. The shameful Munich agreements with Hitler was the most devastating defeat for the European Demicracies. As Churchill stated the Munich agreement was a loss of honor and peace.Only military threat could have stopped the Hitler conquest of Europe.

The same is true today. Only an honest definition of enemy and very forceful response of the West could avert the gigantic bloodshed.In this case we should use the proverbial big stick combined with diplomacy. Diplomacy alone is regarded by Islamic agressors as weaknes. Despite their desire to deserve martyrdom Muslims fear military confrontations and are nor veryt skillful fighters.

The beginning of the Iraq war is a good example how poor can be Muslim army .Willingness to die is not sufficient for being an effective soldier./What is needed is an excellent training, understanding of weapons and an intelligent command. And the Muslim armies lack all of these prerequsites for winning battles..From the military point of view fanaticism is helpful but insufficient in the modern confrontations.

Nazi soldiers were fairly fanatical but unable to win in a prolonged war that irequired industrial output and large human resources. Fnaticism was doomed to fail. The same may be true about Isalmic fighters. They are fanatical and do not care about their life. But so far they are moderatly successful in terrorism fighting unarmed civilians. Our military superiority could help us to unite in this dramatic times and start rebuildnig confidence that we can defend the Western ciivilization that has been achieved at the expense of many sacrifices in the last 2000 years.We owe winning the war to people who died defending our values and to ourselves . .

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