An Open Letter to the President About His Speech on the War
Oct 17, 2005 

IRVINE, CA--Congratulations, Mr. President! It only took you four years to name the enemy as Islamo-fascism. Now the question is: Will this important identification make any difference in how you conduct the war?
       
Apparently not, because you don't understand the meaning of your own words. If you did, you would acknowledge that Iraq was the wrong target, that other nations, most notably Iran, were and are the wellsprings that nourish and arm Islamic totalitarianism. You would acknowledge that to achieve victory you must crush the totalitarians and discredit their ideology in the minds of the populace. To do the latter, people in the Middle East must see that we visit merciless destruction on nations whose civilian population sympathizes with or tolerates totalitarian Islam. Embrace of totalitarian Islam must, in their minds, be causally linked to their own suffering and destruction. This, after all, is how we defeated the Nazism and fascism of Germany and Japan in WWII. We destroyed their militaries and wreaked such devastation on their nations that the populace no longer dared support those ideologies. 
       
If you understood your words, Mr. President, you would acknowledge the fact that there is no possibility of a political solution in Iraq or the Middle East until the political aspirations of Islam are defeated. In other words, as long as the insurgency continues, as long as al-Qaeda's leaders roam free, as long as Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are allowed to prosper, as long as we permit an Iraqi constitution that grants political power to Islam, as long as the Islamic regime in Iran is allowed to exist--no American will be safe.

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