This issue looks at the abominable Iraq and Afghanistan wars, from our perspective, along with other topics of interest. This issue also explores further what makes Muslim minds "tick." As part of the war package, we recommend starting with Commentary Page One. The articles are same as in the previous issue on this particular page, but the subject matter of the "Just War Theory" is presented. This is background for the rest of the war article set. Very many people have never heard of the "Just War Theory," thus do not yet know that this ethics of war system is the reason that the USA has not won a war since World War II, and it explains why Iraq and Afghanistan are such disasters. Until this doctrine is abandoned in favor of TOTAL VICTORY, we will never win another war.
That the USA and coalition went into Iraq ill-prepared is and has been exceptionally obvious. That our side failed to learn from all the valuable clues as they went shows just how effective our blinders have been. One week into the actual invasion, we had a comeuppance that foreshadowed everything that followed toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein. Tom Pritchard discusses the Battle for Nasariyah that resembled Lee's Gettysburg. We went in as know-it-alls and brought all the death and misery on ourselves to an unnecessary degree because we did not, in advance, or at any other time, "wake up and smell the coffee," to borrow the famous phrase from Ann Landers.
While putting this issue together, we received some interesting correspondence to this website and to Sixth Column from Muslims who, at the very least, say they do not understand why we are down on Islam. We gladly answer a number of their statements and provide you their statements in full. In this regard, we gratefully reprint a dynamite article from Front Page Magazine which in words, from various Islamic speakers of note, and in pictures illustrates the extreme danger of Islam. Then there is the article from MEMRI that makes you want to cry because a young man in Egypt is struggling to maintain a free mind and a free body, both of which Islamists want to punish him for.
Of course, everybody knows about the six imams who boarded the jet in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with plans to fly to Phoenix, Arizona, yet managed to stimulate passengers and airline staff into thinking they were up to no good, of the terrorist variety. When one looks at the facts and not the rhetoric, one sees that these six were testing our system. Three excellent articles cover the six imams and their misbehavior above and beyond just the factual presentations, in Flying While Imam. Don't miss the interview with the suicide bomber to let you into the minds of Muslims.
Jacob Thomas, who can walk both the Arab street and the Western streets, brings more sizzling insights about the curious world he once was part of. He makes them so clear to us, and we are so grateful that Mr. Thomas is part of our world. Cubed provides serious insights into the homegrown, British-born, Islamic terrorists and to the physiology behind the young male that makes him so prone to join movements like the jihad.
Victor Davis Hanson, famed historian, provides us a cultural snapshot that is worthy of reading more than once. We are on a downhill course, away from Enlightenment values, and plunging toward the value abyss of Muslims, postmodernists, and the like.
Robert Spencer's new book, The Truth About Muhammad, has been reviewed. Alas, we publish the final two chapters of Jane Scully's terrific novel, Hatred of the Angels. All chapters are available and will remain so. We will archive this on site soon.
Finally, now and then, we get emails from good folks who really want some encouragement. They ask if there are signs that we are winning, or at least progressing, against the dark side. While we can proclaim that we are on the move and are doing better and better, it is even more palatable when the big names say it. In this case, Robert Spencer and Victor Davis Hanson provide some real food for thought, and it is very pleasant and highly digestible.
NEW FOR DECEMBER 2006
From the Editor (A new page with additional information about the current publication) and the Editorial What Makes a War Just?
A focus on the wars in the Middle East:
George Mason, Why We Have Been Losing Iraq, and A Very Messy Way In But A Neat Way Out of Iraq
From Elan Journo, What War Really Looks Like and Washington's Failed War in Afghanistan
From Tim Pritchard, When Iraq Went Wrong , a battle that could have turned the Iraq war in our favor from the first
More "Why We Are Losing" Political Correctness Takes Over Fallujah
From John Lewis, The Military Doctrine of Altruism
Press Release, Iran and Syria Are Our Enemies
News article, Under Fire, U.S. Marines Hand Off Battered Fallujah
From Joshua Muravchik, Confronting Iran
From George Mason, "Moderate Muslims" versus "Moderate" Nazis and Muslim Readers Write Us
From Cubed, Why "British Muslims" Attack Britons and Why Are So Many Active Terrorists Young Males?
From Jacob Thomas, A Moderate Muslim Lectures the West, The Armenian Genocide: Eighty Years Later, and Dialogue of Civilizations, or Clash of Cultures?
From Jane Scully, Hatred of the Angels, Chapter 11: Jesus' Grave in Medina and Chapter 12: Heathen Tower (Hatred of the Angels is an original novel about Eurabia, of tomorrow. Note that these are the final two chapters of this terrific novel.)
From three who examined at the recent situation of Flying While Imam and call it for what it was and is: On a Wing and a Prayer (Debra Burlingame), Imams Gone Wild (Paul Sperry), and Six Imams (Denis Schulz)
From Front Page Magazine, essay and photos, The Islamic Genocide Plan
From MEMRI, Behold the Meaning of Islam, and Weep
From Victor Davis Hanson, Losing the Enlightenment (a cultural snapshot)
Some good news about our progress against Islam from Robert Spencer Happy Thanksgiving) and Victor Davis Hanson (Will the West Stumble?)
Some colossal things "they" said on They Said It, including an interview with a bona fide suicide bomber (a really good look into the workings of the Muslim mind)
Review of Robert Spencer's new book The Truth About Muhammad on Recommended
And, as always, outstanding daily analyses on Sixth Column
As well as blogs with different perspectives: The New Enlightenment and Nous American
