Winning the War on Terror

The State Department has released its annual report, Patterns of Global Terrorism that shows that there were fewer acts of international terror in 2003 in more than 30 years. The report found that "190 acts of international terrorism occurred in 2003--a slight drop from 198 attacks the previous year and the lowest total since 1969." That's also a 45% decrease since 2001, when America became engaged in the war on terror.

This is important to note. America is engaged in War on Terror, not an imperialistic effort attempting to "force [our] nation through military occupation." As the State Department's report states and as the President has reminded us, our war in Iraq is a theater in that war. We must root out and destroy terrorists and the states that support terrorists if we are to continue to survive. The sad fact is, that the terrorist wouldn't care if we were political isolationists and pulled out of all 130 some-odd countries that we have troops stationed in. They would still come and attack us because our basic values of liberty, economic freedom, and most importantly, Judeo-Christian philosophy is their enemy. America is just the face to the enemy.

Terrorists are not a political entity and, therefore, political arguments about sticking our nose into their business and killing them are irrelevant. States that support terrorists (as it has been clearly documented that Iraq was doing...Saddam was paying families of Hamas suicide bombers and allowed several terrorist training camps to exist in Iraq) abdicate their rights to be treated as states and must be viewed as terrorists as well.

Let me see if I can explain this in common terms. Last year we had a big problem with ants in our house. No matter how many times I stepped on an ant and killed it, another would appear the next day. I sprayed bug killer around all the doors and windows. Still, some ants got past my security measures and invaded my home. I would kill ants one-at-a-time and never seemed to get ahead. Then, I got smart. I went outside my home and found the ant nests. I attacked the ant nests with everything I could find. It was only when I attacked the problem at its root, that I was able to get a handle on the problem in my home. Just like I'm not going to be able to control the ants by stomping on the occasional scout that happens into my home, I must find the ant colony, and eliminate it, so must we treat the terrorists. The states that sponsor terrorists are the colonies.

Now, I don't care if Iraqi's want to live under a democracy, theocracy, or dictatorship, as long as their government does not become a haven for breeding and training terrorists who will attack us. Destroying these countries who sponsor terrorism is not involving ourselves in their "political agenda," it is protecting ours. Now, I do believe that the only true way to destroy terrorism as a philosophy is to replace it with a philosophy or liberty. However, attempting to change a culture is not a job for our government...it is a job for our churches. Removing states that are danger to us, is indeed our government's job.

This is indeed a complex issue. One in which even well-intentioned, rational people can reach different conclusions. Has our administration done the best job in Iraq? No, there have been some blunders. There is never a perfect war and even the best laid plans are useless once the first bullet flies. Is the Bush administration attempting to do right by our country by protecting it? Yes. Since we have seen a 45% decrease in terrorists attacks since the War on Terror has been declared clearly paints a picture that we are doing the right thing? Is the administration doing right by the people in Iraq in the manner that it is attempting to install a post-invasion government? I don't know and don't care. That is for the Iraqi people to decide...let them set up whatever kind of government they want...just so they understand that if terrorist show up again...so will we.

This is a war that should transcend political ideology. Even though our President and the media refuse to speak in the following terms, the war on Terror is a Holy war. It is a war of Judeo-Christian values against the false religion of Islam. As I have said in the past, "The war on Iraq is the physical manifestation of a spiritual battle for global dominance between the Deceiver and the Truth." Thank you God for helping us to win it.