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Sleepless in Fulham: Rambling and gambling by David Young
Tuesday, 2 November 2004
Why I want Bush to win.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

I want an 'unreasonable' president. We face an ideological enemy and need an ideological strategy to combat it. Bush grasps this. Kerry doesn't. Soon after the atrocities of September 11th 2001, Bush revealed his intention to take the battle to the terrorists. It would involve far more than merely reacting to events. Instead he would aim at nothing less than the transformation of the Middle-East through regime change. He was right.

It is rare in war that your enemy tells you the path you should take in order to defeat it, but such was the hubris of Al Qaeda until recently, that it did exactly that with the 2003 publication of a book titled 'The Future of Iraq and the Arabian Peninsular after the Fall of Baghdad', written by Al Qaeda member Yussuf al-Ayyeri and published by The Centre for Islamic Research and Studies, a company established by bin Laden in 1995.

See this review: http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=4153

In the book, Al-Ayyeri explains Al Qaeda's theory of history as the battle of belief versus unbelief. Belief in Islam has, according to the book, been challenged by many opposing philosophies over the centuries and all except one have been defeated. These have been modernism, nationalism, socialism and Ba'athism. The removal of Ba'athism has created what he calls a "clean battlefield" for the final and greatest battle of them all, against "secularist democracy". Al Ayyeri describes it as "far more dangerous to Islam" than all its predecessors combined, because of democracy's "seductive capacities", which persuade people that they can be empowered to control their own destinies, leading them to draft their own laws and abandon Sharia, the strict Islamic law handed down in the Koran. The book says that democracy will, "make Muslims love this world, forget the next world, and abandon Jihad".

That is why they are so desperate to prevent elections, order and prosperity for ordinary Arab people. It is also why I want Bush to win. Only Bush's "forward strategy of freedom" will solve our long term terror problem. And we know this because our enemy has told us.

_ DY at 7:43 PM GMT
Updated: Tuesday, 2 November 2004 7:47 PM GMT
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