Al-Qaeda Wins Major Victory

Four days after Spain experiences rush-hour bombings by Islamic terrorist with ties to Al-Qaeda, the Spanish people voted the Popular Party out of office and replaced it with the Spanish Socialist Party. One of the main platforms of the Spanish Socialist Party promotes distancing Spain from the U.S. and to bring their troops home from Iraq. This is not to say the Spanish Socialist Party is somehow in league with al-Qaeda. But it is clear that one of the things the Islamic Radicals wants to do is to exploit divisions in the West. Those divisions widen as Spain will now join the European Axis of Weasels: Germany, France, Belgium and other appeasement-oriented countries.

Maybe you think I am overstating the issue. However, a quick look at the logic would show otherwise. One week before a Spanish election, a man who has been bold and eager in his support for the International War on Terror (spearheaded by President Bush) is enjoying a seeming insurmountable lead in the polls. Then. BOOM!!! The terrorists attack, killing 200 people and injuring 1500. The people go to the polls and vote against the leader who has supported the war and replace him with a person who thinks appeasement will work. Clearly, then, the terrorists are going to consider this to be a major victory. How could they not?

The problem with a philosophy of appeasement is that it is a short term solution. Sure, the Islamic Terrorist are not going to attack the appeasers right now while they are engaged in a war with those who are courageous and bold enough to stand up to them. However, the long term goal of the groups behind the terrorism is global domination. That is, all nations will be ruled by a theocracy based on Islam. So, let us suppose that the terrorist actually win and the US capitulates and becomes a Dar Al-Islam (i.e., a country under Islamic rule) instead of nation of laws. How long until Germany, France, and now Spain find themselves battling the Islamic Terrorist to maintain their identity? Will they then continue to appease them and just willingly give up the control of the EU to the mullahs and shahs? At what point will they stand up and say that the philosophy and social order mandated under Islam is backwards, out-dated, and just plain not as good a the Judeo-Christian philosophy and culture of the West?

The Islamic terrorist are not trying to kill us and destroy us because we steal their oil, inhabit their lands, economically beat them down, or any of the other asinine reasons you hear about the "root causes" of terrorism. The Islamic terrorist are trying to kill and destroy us because our philosophy & culture is diametrically opposed to their philosophy & culture.

Since this is a culture war, the policies of appeasement and isolationism will not work in the long run. Sooner or later we will have to use force to protect our ideas. The question, then, is do we protect them now when the enemy is pretty much isolated to one location...or do we wait and protect them later after the enemy has strengthened its position by acquiring more and more countries? Personally, I say you kill the rattlesnake in the field before it lays eggs and moves into the house...