SOME OF YOU  (US) ARE  NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WWII.   MOST OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES,  GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF 35
MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD.   NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES.
 
READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN 2007.

 THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WRITING. WELL THOUGHT OUT AND PRESENTED. IT HAS
 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
 SIXTY-THREE YEARS AGO, NAZI GERMANY HAD OVERRUN ALMOST ALL OF EUROPE AND
 HAMMERED ENGLAND TO THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY AND DEFEAT, AND HAD SUNK MORE
 THAN FOUR HUNDRED BRITISH SHIPS IN THEIR CONVOYS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND
 AMERICA FOR FOOD AND WAR MATERIALS.

 AT THAT TIME THE US WAS IN AN ISOLATIONIST, PACIFIST MOOD, AND MOST
 AMERICANS WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH THE EUROPEAN OR THE ASIAN WAR.

 THEN ALONG CAME PEARL HARBOR ON DECEMBER 7, 1941, AND IN OUTRAGE CONGRESS
 UNANIMOUSLY DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN, AND THE FOLLOWING DAY ON GERMANY, WHICH
 HAD NOT YET ATTACKED US. IT WAS A DICEY THING. WE HAD FEW ALLIES.
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 FRANCE WAS NOT AN ALLY, AS THE VICHY GOVERNMENT OF FRA NCE QUICKLY LIGNED
 ITSELF WITH ITS GERMAN OCCUPIERS. GERMANY WAS CERTAINLY NOT AN ALLY, AS
 HITLER WAS INTENT ON SETTING UP A THOUSAND YEAR REICH IN EUROPE. JAPAN WAS
 NOT AN ALLY, AS IT WAS WELL ON ITS WAY TO OWNING AND CONTROLLING ALL OF
 ASIA.
 TOGETHER, JAPAN AND GERMANY HAD LONG-RANGE PLANS OF INVADING CANADA AND  MEXICO, AS LAUNCHING PADS TO GET INTO THE UNITED STATES OVER OUR NORTHERN
 AND SOUTHERN BORDERS, AFTER THEY FINISHED GAINING CONTROL OF ASIA AND  EUROPE. AMERICA'S ONLY ALLIES THEN WERE ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND,
 CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AND RUSSIA. THAT WAS ABOUT IT. ALL OF EUROPE, FROM
 NORWAY TO ITALY, EXCEPT RUSSIA IN THE EAST, WAS ALREADY UNDER THE NAZI
 HEEL.

 AMERICA WAS CERTAINLY NOT PREPARED FOR WAR. AMERICA HAD DRASTICALLY
 DOWNGRADED MOST OF ITS MILITARY FORCES AFTER W.W.I AND THROUGHOUT THE
 DEPRESSION, SO THAT AT THE OUTBREAK OF WW2 , ARMY UNITS WERE TRAINING WITH
 BROOMSTICKS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE GUNS, AND CARS WITH "TANK" PAINTED ON
 THE DOORS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE REAL TANKS. AND A HUGE CHUNK OF OUR
 NAVY HAD JUST BEEN SUNK OR DAMAGED AT PEARL HARBOR.

 BRITAIN HAD ALREADY GONE BANKRUPT, SAVED ONLY BY THE DONATION OF $600  MILLION IN GOLD BULLION IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND, THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE
> PROPERTY OF BELGIUM, GIVEN BY BELGIUM TO ENGLAND TO CARRY ON THE WAR WHEN  BELGIUM WAS OVERRUN BY HITLER (A LITTLE KNOWN FACT).

 ACTUALLY, BELGIUM SURRENDERED ON ONE DAY, BECAUSE IT WAS UNABLE TO OPPOSE
 THE GERMAN INVASION, AND THE GERMANS BOMBED BRUSSELS INTO RUBBLE THE NEXT
 DAY JUST TO PROVE THEY COULD. BRITAIN HAD ALREADY BEEN HOLDING OUT FOR TWO
 YEARS IN THE FACE OF STAGGERING LOSSES AND THE NEAR DECIMATION OF ITS AIR
 FORCE IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN, AND WAS SAVED FROM BEING OVERRUN BY
 GER MANY ONLY BECAUSE HITLER MADE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING THE BRITS WERE A
> RELATIVELY MINOR THREAT THAT COULD BE DEALT WITH LATER, AND FIRST TURNING
 HIS ATTENTION TO RUSSIA, AT A TIME WHEN ENGLAND WAS ON THE VERGE OF
 COLLAPSE, IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 1940.

 IRONICALLY, RUSSIA SAVED AMERICA'S BUTT BY PUTTING UP A DESPERATE FIGHT
 FOR TWO YEARS, UNTIL THE US GOT GEARED UP TO BEGIN HAMMERING AWAY AT
> GERMANY.

 RUSSIA LOST SOMETHING LIKE 24 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE SIEGES OF STALINGRAD
> AND MOSCOW ALONE... 90% OF THEM FROM COLD AND STARVATION, MOSTLY
CIVILIANS, BUT ALSO MORE THAN A 1,000,000 SOLDIERS.

 HAD RUSSIA SURRENDERED, HITLER WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FOCUS HIS ENTIRE
 WAR EFFORT AGAINST THE BRITS, THEN AMERICA. AND THE NAZIS COULD POSSIBLY
 HAVE WON THE WAR.

 ALL OF THIS IS TO ILLUSTRATE THAT TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY ARE OFTEN
 DICEY THINGS. AND NOW, WE FIND OURSELVES AT ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE KEY
 MOMENTS IN HISTORY.

 THERE IS A VERY DANGEROUS MINORITY IN ISLAM THAT EITHER HAS, OR WANTS AND
 MAY SOON HAVE, THE ABILITY TO DELIVER SMALL NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, OR
 CHEMICAL WEAPONS, ALMOST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

 THE JIHADIS, THE MILITANT MUSLIMS, ARE BASICALLY NAZIS IN KAFFIYAHS -- 
> THEY BELIEVE THAT ISLAM, A RADICALLY CONSERVATIVE FORM OF WAHHABI SLAM,
 SHOULD OWN AND CONTROL THE MIDDLE EAST FIRST, THEN EUROPE, THEN THE WORLD.
 AND THAT ALL WHO DO NOT BOW TO THEIR WILL OF THINKING SHOULD BE KILLED,  ENSLAVED, OR SUBJUGATED. THEY WANT TO FINISH THE HOLOCAUST, DESTROY
 ISRAEL, AND PURGE THE WORLD OF JEWS. THIS IS THEIR MANTRA.

 THERE IS ALSO A CIVIL WAR RAGING IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- FOR THE MOST PART NOT A HOT WAR, BUT A WAR OF IDEAS. ISLAM IS HAVING ITS INQUISITION AND ITS
 REFORMATION, BUT IT IS NO T KNOWN YET WHICH WILL WIN -- THE INQUISITORS, OR
 THE REFORMATIONISTS
 IF THE INQUISITION WINS, THEN THE WAHHABIS, THE JIHADIS, WILL CONTROL THE
 MIDDLE EAST, THE OPEC OIL, AND THE US, EUROPEAN, AND ASIAN ECONOMIES.

 THE TECHNO-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIES WILL BE AT THE MERCY OF OPEC -- NOT AN
 OPEC DOMINATED BY THE EDUCATED, RATIONAL SAUDIS OF TODAY, BUT AN OPEC
 DOMINATED BY THE JIHADIS. YOU WANT GAS IN YOUR CAR? YOU WANT HEATING OIL
 NEXT WINTER? YOU WANT THE DOLLAR TO BE WORTH ANYTHING? YOU BETTER HOPE THE
 JIHAD, THE MUSLIM INQUISITION, LOSES, AND THE ISLAMIC REFORMATION WINS. IF THE REFORMATION MOVEMENT WINS, THAT IS, THE MODERATE MUSLIMS WHO
 BELIEVE THAT ISLAM CAN RESPECT AND TOLERATE OTHER RELIGIONS, AND LIVE IN
 PEACE WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD, AND MOVE OUT OF THE 10TH CENTURY INTO
> THE 21ST, THEN THE TROUBLES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL EVENTUALLY FADE AWAY,
 AND A MODERATE AND PROSPEROUS MIDDLE EAST WILL EMERGE. (THE RATIONAL MIND
 OF TODAY SAYS THIS).

 WE HAVE TO HELP THE REFORMATION WIN, AND TO DO THAT WE HAVE TO FIGHT THE
 INQUISITION, I.E. THE WAHHABI MOVEMENT, THE JIHAD, AL QAEDA AND THE
 ISLAMIC TERRORIST MOVEMENTS. WE HAVE TO DO IT SOMEWHERE. AND WE CAN'T DO
 IT EVERYWHERE AT ONCE. WE HAVE CREATED A FOCAL POINT FOR THE BATTLE AT A
> TIME AND PLACE OF OUR CHOOSING........IN IRAQ. NOT IN NEW YORK, NOT IN
 LONDON, OR PARIS OR BERLIN, BUT IN IRAQ, WHERE WE ARE DOING TWO IMPORTANT
 THINGS:
 (1) WE DEPOSED SADDAM HUSSEIN. WHETHER SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS DIRECTLY
 INVOLVED IN 9/11 OR NOT, IT IS UNDISPUTED THAT SADDAM HAS BEEN ACTIVELY
 SUPPORTING THE TERRORIST MOVEMENT FOR DECADES. SADDAM IS A TERRORIST.
 SADDAM IS, OR WAS, A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
 THE DEATHS OF PROBABLY MORE THAN A MILLION IRAQIS AN D TWO MILLION
 IRANIANS.
 (2) WE CREATED A BATTLE, A CONFRONTATION, A FLASH POINT, WITH ISLAMIC
 TERRORISM IN IRAQ. WE HAVE FOCUSED THE BATTLE. WE ARE KILLING BAD PEOPLE,
>AND THE ONES WE GET THERE WE WON'T HAVE TO GET HERE. WE ALSO HAVE A GOOD
 SHOT AT CREATING A DEMOCRATIC, PEACEFUL IRAQ, WHICH WILL BE A CATALYST FOR
 DEMOCRATIC CHANGE IN THE REST OF THE MIDDLE EAST, AND AN OUTPOST FOR A
 STABILIZING AMERICAN MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOR AS LONG AS
 IT IS NEEDED.

 WORLD WAR II, THE WAR WITH THE GERMAN AND JAPANESE NAZIS, REALLY BEGAN
 WITH A "WHIMPER" IN 1928. IT DID NOT BEGIN WITH PEARL HARBOR. IT BEGAN
 WITH THE JAPANESE INVASION OF CHINA. IT WAS A WAR FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
 BEFORE AMERICA JOINED IT. IT OFFICIALLY ENDED IN 1945 -- A 17 YEAR WAR --   AND WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER DECADE OF US OCCUPATION IN GERMANY AND JAPAN
 TO GET THOSE COUNTRIES REC ONSTRUCTED AND RUNNING ON THEIR OWN AGAIN .. A
 27 YEAR WAR.

WORLD WAR II COST THE UNITED STATES AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO APPROXIMATELY A
 FULL YEAR'S GDP -- ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, EQUAL TO ABOUT $12 TRILLION > DOLLARS. W.W.II COST AMERICA MORE THAN 400,000 KILLED IN ACTION, AND
 NEARLY 100,000 STILL MISSING IN ACTION.
 THE IRAQ WAR HAS, SO FAR, COST THE US ABOUT $160 BILLION, WHICH IS ROUGHLY
 WHAT 9/11 COST NEW YORK. IT HAS ALSO COST ABOUT 2,200 AMERICAN LIVES,
 WHICH IS ROUGHLY 2/3 OF THE 3,000 LIVES THAT THE JIHAD SNUFFED ON 9/11.
> BUT THE COST OF NOT FIGHTING AND WINNING WWII WOULD HAVE BEEN UNIMAGINABLY
 GREATER -- A WORLD DOMINATED BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE NAZISM.
 THIS IS NOT 60 MINUTES TV SHOWS, AND 2 HOUR MOVIES IN WHICH EVERYTHING
COMES OUT OKAY. THE REAL WORLD IS NOT LIKE THAT. IT IS MESSY, UNCERTAIN,
 AND SOMETIMES BLOODY AND UGLY. ALWAYS HAS BEEN, AND PROBABLY ALWAYS WILL
 BE.
 THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WE WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH ISLAMIC TERRORISM UNTIL
 WE DEFEAT IT, WHENEVER THAT IS. IT WILL NOT GO AWAY IF WE IGNORE IT.

 IF THE US CAN CREATE A REASONABLY DEMOCRATIC AND STABLE IRAQ, THEN WE HAVE
 AN "ENGLAND" IN THE MIDDLE EAST, A PLATFORM, FROM WHICH WE CAN WORK TO
 HELP MODERNIZE AND MODERATE THE MIDDLE EAST. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IS
> THE CLASH BETWEEN THE FORCES OF RELATIVE CIVILITY AND CIVILIZATION, ND
> THE BARBARIANS CLAMORING AT THE GATES. THE IRAQ WAR IS MERELY ANOTHER
 BATTLE IN THIS ANCIENT AND NEVER ENDING WAR. AND NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME
 EVER, THE BARBARIANS ARE ABOUT TO GET NUCLEAR WEAPONS. UNLESS SOMEBODY
 PREVENTS THEM.

 WE HAVE FOUR OPTIONS:

 1. WE CAN DEFEAT THE JIHAD NOW, BEFORE IT GETS NUCLEAR WEAP
 2. WE CAN FIGHT THE JIHAD LATER, AFTER IT GETS NUCLEAR WEAPO NS (WHICH MAY
 BE AS EARLY AS NEXT YEAR, IF IRAN'S PROGRESS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS WHAT
 IRAN CLAIMS IT IS)

 3. WE CAN SURRENDER TO THE JIHAD AND ACCEPT ITS DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE
 EAST, NOW, IN EUROPE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS OR DECADES, AND ULTIMATELY IN
 AMERICA.

 4. OR, WE CAN STAND DOWN NOW, AND PICK UP THE FIGHT LATER WHEN THE JIHAD
 IS MORE WIDESPREAD AND BETTER ARMED, PERHAPS AFTER THE JIHAD HAS DOMINATED  FRANCE AND GERMANY AND MAYBE MOST OF THE REST OF EUROPE. IT WILL, OF
 COURSE, BE MORE DANGEROUS, MORE EXPENSIVE, AND MUCH BLOODIER.

 IF YOU OPPOSE THIS WAR, I HOPE YOU LIKE THE IDEA THAT YOUR CHILDREN, OR
 GRANDCHILDREN, MAY LIVE IN AN ISLAMIC AMERICA UNDER THE MULLAHS AND THE
 SHARIA (ISLAMIC LAW), AN AMERICA THAT RESEMBLES IRAN TODAY.

 THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IS THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONAL CLASHES,
 CULTURAL CLASHES. ALL WARS ARE AB OUT IDEAS, IDEAS ABOUT WHAT SOCIETY AND
 CIVILIZATION SHOULD BE LIKE, AND THE MOST DETERMINED ALWAYS WIN. THOSE WHO
 ARE WILLING TO BE THE MOST RUTHLESS ALWAYS WIN. THE PACIFISTS ALWAYS LOSE,
 BECAUSE THE ANTI-PACIFISTS KILL THEM.

 REMEMBER, PERSPECTIVE IS EVERY THING, AND AMERICA'S SCHOOLS TEACH TOO
 LITTLE HISTORY FOR PERSPECTIVE TO BE CLEAR, ESPECIALLY IN THE YOUNG  AMERICAN MIND.

 THE COLD WAR LASTED FROM ABOUT 1947 AT LEAST UNTIL THE BERLIN WALL CAME
 DOWN IN 1989. FORTY-TWO YEARS. EUROPE SPENT THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH
 CENTURY FIGHTING NAPOLEON, AND FROM 1870 TO 1945 FIGHTING GERMANY
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 ORLD WAR II BEGAN IN 1928, LASTED 17 YEARS, PLUS A TEN YEAR OCCUPATION,
 AND THE US STILL HAS TROOPS IN GERMANY AND JAPAN. WORLD WAR II RESULTED IN
 THE DEATH OF MORE THAN 50 MILLION PEOPLE, MAYBE MORE THAN 100 MILLION
 PEOPLE, DEPENDING ON WHICH ESTIMATES YOU ACCEPT.>
 THE US HAS TAKEN MORE THAN 2,000 KILLED IN ACTION IN IRAQ. THE US TOOK
 MORE THAN 4,000 KILLED IN ACTION ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 6, 1944, THE FIRST
 DAY OF THE NORMANDY INVASION TO RID EUROPE OF NAZI IMPERIALISM.

 IN W.W.II THE US AVERAGED 2,000 KIA A WEEK -- FOR FOUR YEARS. MOST OF THE
 INDIVIDUAL BATTLES OF WWII COST MORE AMERICANS THAN THE ENTIRE IRAQ WAR
 HAS DONE SO FAR. BUT THE STAKES ARE AT LEAST AS HIGH ... A WORLD DOMINATED
 BY REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENTS WITH CIVIL RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND
 PERSONAL  FREEDOMS .. OR A WORLD DOMINATED BY A RADICAL ISLAMIC WAHHABI
 MOVEMENT, BY THE JIHAD, UNDER THE MULLAHS AND THE SHARIA (ISLAMIC LAW).

 PLEASE SEND THIS TO ANYONE WHO DID NOT EXPERIENCE WW-II......AND TO THOSE WHO DID!