Al Qaeda Plots, and the World Sleeps

Britain's MI-5 warned the world that Al Qaeda is planning an attack against Britain on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki". And nobody in the major media on either side of the Atlantic is raising the alarm. It's not enough to just sit back and rely on Britain's police forces to "watch" more than 5000 British Muslims who have demonstrated a sympathy for the terrorists.

In just the last year, as many as 150 British citizens visited Iraq to joining a "foreign legion". And the case for many of them returning to Britain after training to form sleeper cells goes beyond mere speculation. MI-5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has chronicled the progress of Al Qaeda on a host of fronts, but it doesn't do any good if the people in power do nothing with this information.

The War on Terror is not a police action. Treating avowed enemies like misbehaving teenagers will have deadly results. Britain has already been struck by Islamist terror, and people have just moved on.

In case the world's policy-makers have somehow forgotten, more than 200,000 people died in a nuclear inferno at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It should come as no surprise to anyone that the terrorists aspire to nuclear weapons, but even if they are only able to use a dirty bomb no one is going to be prepared.

Let's raise awareness of this new intelligence report and shake up the politicians that refuse to do anything about this threat. Everyone is concerned that showing too many pictures of a lone gunman from Virginia Tech will cause copycats, but no one addresses the real copycat crimes that have already occurred. Mental illness is not a threat to our collective security - except the mental illness of Islamofascism.

Defending America

The Second Amendment is the most misinterpreted law in America. If liberals were willing to be consistent with their treatment of the 2nd and 13th Amendments, every man, woman, and child in America would receive a new rifle for their birthday courtesy of the government.

Even in times of tragedy, our resolve to defend ourselves cannot be undermined. And for all those limp-wristed blowhards decrying the barbarism of American society, I ask where was the armed citizenry. If even one person had a personal firearm on their person, the tragedy at Virginia Tech could have been averted.

Don't allow the people around you to suggest that more gun control would have prevented this tragedy. The exact opposite is true. Only in a society where everyone is armed can we effectively stop this sort of thing from happening.

One of the most heavily armed countries on Earth is Switzerland. Every adult male in the country gets to keep the semi-automatic rifle he trains with during his mandatory service in the military. And the rates of gun crime in Switzerland are exceeding low.

It's time to take a stand for America's Constitution and Bill of Rights. Don't let the liberals take the country our forefathers fought and died for away from us. The Second Amendment deserves better and so do all Americans.

America, Alone

"America should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread America’s influence around the world—for our own sake as well as theirs."

- from the inside flap of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know it by Mark Steyn

America today is a force for good in the world. But America's greatest strengths ensure that even here in a bastion of freedom unparalleled in world history, the subtle poison of liberalism leeches away our spirit.

Remember the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Fought near the Philippines in October 1944, the battle was the largest naval engagement in modern history. But the battle was notable for more than its size: Leyte Gulf witnessed the first use of kamikaze aircraft. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was actually four interrelated battles fought over successive days. Not all of those battles were won without great cost. The Battle of Sibuyan Sea witnessed the loss of the aircraft carrier USS Princeton. But the Battle of Surigao Strait was won with a brilliant trap by the Americans which enabled them to cross the T of the Japanese forces. By positioning its forces properly, the brave Americans could bring all of their firepower to bear on the enemy. Yet a miscommunication nearly cost the Allies the Battle off Cape Engano and the Battle off Samar. Only sheer fortitude (and more than a thousand aircraft) enabled the Americans to break the power of the Japanese at sea.

The lessons of Leyte Gulf are not as widely studied as the more popular Battle of the Bulge and D-Day Invasion. Yet in many ways, the Battle of Leyte Gulf more closely parallels our current conflict.

The world of today is a much different, much wider, wilder world than that of even just 30 years ago. We face a new global challenge - Islamofascism. Our enemy struck the first, furious blow. We fought back with righteous fury, but now that the quick victory over Saddam is past, our will falters. We need to recognize that the dangerous new tactics of our enemies require new tactics of our own to combat them, but also renewed resolve.

The new terrors of today and tomorrow will not stand and fight like the past horrors of Communism and Nazism. Yet like Imperial Japan, Islamofascism has its own figurehead. Only when the war of ideology has been decided in America's favor, can the battlefield of everyday life follow.

America must stand strong against its enemies today, even if it must stand a lonely vigil - America, alone.