Via this thread at Israel Forum.


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U.S. confronted Communism in Vietnam. It must now stand against Mediaeval Islam in Iraq - By Hamid Bahadori

As an Iran-Iraq war veteran still carrying an Iraqi bullet in my body, I can provide eyewitness testimony to Saddam Hussein's possession and use of weapons of mass destruction -- weapons that have remained in the Iraqi arsenal for more than 20 years. So why should we be concerned with them now?


Control of oil supplies is an important reason. But as much as 21st century Hippies want you to believe, it is not the main reason for going to war with Iraq. The U.S. can ensure the flow of oil by easier and more covert avenues -- as it has for decades. The war with Iraq, regardless of its outcome, will be one of those turning points in human history like the defeat of Persians at Marathon, the battle of Waterloo, the defeat of crusaders in the hands of Saladin, and the Mongol invasion.


Why such a high historical value on a relatively minor military campaign when for all practical purposes the Vietnam War was more complex and a lot costlier? This conflict is the biggest flash point between the modern Western civilization and the Islamic civilization that the West, and the U.S. in particular, has been hoping to avoid for a long time. But now, the time has come and we must act or face the consequences, as did the great empires before us.


We will either stop the Vandals before they sac Rome, suffocate the barbaric Arabs before they destroy the Persian Empire, take the sword out of Genghis Khan's hand before he kills millions of people, or we will be remembered as one of those nations who seemed invincible in their own times and failed to take action, when they could, to prevent their demise.[...]

It seems to me that America has plenty of supporters among the democratic opposition in a lot of places. That's the "street" we should be concerned with playing to. It's sad that so much of the deluded moral-equivalency crowd among our own populations are some of the most dangerous propagandists for the dictators.


Ironically, the same site contains another article by one, "Peter Attwood" entitled "Unlimited Aims" which makes the direct connection between Bush's Iraq policy and Hitler's move on Czechoslovakia. Sadly, Attwood is an American, while Bahadori is Iranian.