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Got this in a email. It is well worth the time to read it.




Historical significance .... what has changed?

SOME OF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY
> FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WW II . MOST OF YOU DON'T
> REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR
> OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD,
> NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES. READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE
> WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN 2007.
>>
>> This is an EXCELLENT essay . Well thought out and presented.
>>
>>
>> Historical Significance
>>
>> Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of
> Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The
> Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between
> England and America taking food and war materials
>>
>> At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
> Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war
>>
>> Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 , and in outrage
> Congress unanimously declared war on Japan , and the following day on
> Germany , who had not yet attacked us . It was a dicey thing . We had
> few allies .
>>
>> France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly
> aligned itself with its German occupiers Germany was certainly not
> an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in
> Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning
> and controlling all of Asia..
>>
>> Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada
> and Mexico , as launching pads to get into the United States over our
> northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of
> Asia and Europe.
>>
>> America's only allies then were England , Ireland , Scotland ,
> Canada , Australia, and Russia . That was about it. All of Europe,
> from Norway to Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under
> the Nazi heel .
>>
>> The US was certainly not prepared for war. The US had drastically
> downgraded most of its military forces after WW I because of the
> depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army units were
> training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars
> with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks A
> huge chunk of our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.
>>
>> Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of
> $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England (that was
> actually the property of Belgium ) given by Belgium to England to carry
> on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact).
>>
>> Actually, Belgium surrendered after one day, because it was unable
> to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into
> rubble the next day just to prove they could
>>
>> Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of
> staggering losses and the near decimation of its Royal Air Force in
> the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany
> only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a
> relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later. Hitler, first
> turned his attention to Russia, in the late summer of 1940 at a time
> when England was on the verge of collapse.
>>
>> Ironically, Russia saved America's b*tt by putting up a
> desperate fight for two years, until the US got geared up to begin
> hammering away at Germany .
>>
>> Russia lost something like 24,000,000 people in the sieges of
> Stalingrad and Moscow alone . . 90% of them from cold and
> starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers
>>
>> Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his
> entire war effort against the Brits, then America. If that had
> happened, the Nazis could possibly have won the war .
>>
>> All of this has been brought out to illustrate that turning
> points in history are often dicey things. Now, we find ourselves at
> another one of those key moments in history.
>>
>> There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or
> wants, and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear,
> biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world .
>>
>> The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs
> -- they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi
> Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe,
> then the world. To them, all who do not bow to their will of
> thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated . They want to
> finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews .
> This is their mantra . (goal)
>>
>> There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most
> part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its
> Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not yet known which side
> will win -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.
>>
>> If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will
> control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and
> Asian economies.
>>
>> The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not
> an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an
> OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. Do you want gas in your car? Do you
> want heating oil next winter? Do you want the dollar to be worth
> anything? You had better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition,
> loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.
>>
>> If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who
> believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, live in
> peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century
> into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually
> fade away. A moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
>>
>> We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to
> fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al
> Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it
> somewhere. We can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a
> focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing . . .
> . . .. . . in Iraq Not in New York , not in London , or Paris or
> Berlin , but in Iraq, where we are doing two important things.
>>
>> (1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly
> involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack or not, it is undisputed that
> Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for
> decades Saddam was a terrorist! Saddam was a weapon of mass
> destruction, responsible for the deaths of probably more than a
> 1,000,000 Iraqis and 2,000,000 Iranians
>>
>> (2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with
> Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are
> killing bad people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get
> here. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful
> Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of
> the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military
> presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed
>>
>> WW II, the war with the Japanese and German Nazis, really began
> with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It
> began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen
> years before the US joined it. It officially ended in 1945 -- a 17
> year war -- and was followed by another decade of US occupation in
> Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on
> their own a gain . . a 27 year war.
>>
>> WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a
> full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12
> trillion dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers
> killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
>>
>> The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States about
> $160,000,000,000, which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack
> cost New York. It has also cost about 3,000 American lives, which is
> roughly equivalent to lives that the Jihad killed (within the United
> States) in the 9/11 terrorist attack .
>>
>> The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would have been
> unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by Japanese Imperialism and
> German Nazism
>>
>> This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie in which
> everything comes out okay . The real world is not like that. It is
> messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. It always has been,
> and probably always will be .
>>
>> The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism
> until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we
> ignore it
>>
>> If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then
> we have an ally, like England , in the Middle East, a platform, from
> which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East.
> The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative
> civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates
> to conquer the world.
>>
>> The Iraq War is merely another battle in this ancient and never
> ending war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about
> to get nuclear weapons. Unless somebody prevents them from getting
> them.
>>
>> We have four options:
>>
>> 1 . We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.
>>
>> 2 . We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons
> (which may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear
> weapons is what Iran claims it is).
>>
>> 3 . We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the
> Middle East now; in Europe in the next few years or decades, and
> ultimately in America.
>>
>> OR
>>
>> 4 . We can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the
> Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad
> has dominated France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of
> Europe. It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and
> much bloodier.
>>
>> If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your
> children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the
> Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.
>>
>> The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes,
> cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society
> and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
>>
>> Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win . The
> pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them .
>>
>> Remember, perspective is every thing, and America's schools teach too
> little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young
> American mind.
>>
>> The Cold War lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall
> came down in 1989; forty-two years!
>>
>> Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon,
> and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany !
>>
>> World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year
> occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan . World
> War II resulted in the death of more than 50,000,000 people, maybe
> more than 100,000,000 people, depending on which estimates you
> accept.
>>
>> The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq.. The US
> took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944
> , the firs t day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi
> Imperialism.
>>
>> In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years. Most
> of the individual battles of WW II lost more Americans than the
> entire Iraq war has done so far
>>
>> The stakes are at least as high . A world dominated by
> representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and
> personal freedoms . . or a world dominated by a radical Islamic
> Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia
> (Islamic law)
>>
>> It's difficult to understand why the average American does not
> grasp this. They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and
> freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis.
>>
>> "Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America ,
> where it's safe.
>>
>> Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran , Syria ,
> Iraq , Sudan , North Korea , in the places that really need peace
> activism the most? I'll tell you why! They would be killed!
>>
>> The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil
> rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc . , but if the Jihad
> wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human
> rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.
>>
>> Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the
> side of their own worst enemy!
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Raymond S . Kraft is a writer and an attorney living in Northern
> California who has studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Please consider passing along copies of this article to students in
> high school, college and university as it contains information about
> the American past that is very meaningful today -- history about
> America that very likely is completely unknown by them (and their
> instructors, too). By being denied the facts of our history, they
> are at a decided disadvantage when it comes to reasoning and thinking
> through the issues of today. They are prime targets for
> misinformation campaigns beamed at enlisting them in causes and
> beliefs that are special interest agenda driven.
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