I found this to be an EXCELLENT writing.
Well thought out and presented.
It has Historical Significance.

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had
overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to
the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more
than four hundred British ships in their convoys
between England and America for food and war
materials.

At that time the U.S. 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, which
had not yet attacked us (because Germany had
declared war on us first) .

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. (True, but there was the DeGaulle Free
France and underground resistance that was allied with
the U.S. and Britain)

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
invadingCanada 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.

America was certainly not prepared for
war. America had drastically downgraded most of its
military forces after WWI and throughout the
depression, so that at the outbreak of WWII, 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. (Well,
we DID have a few real tanks although not very good
ones)

A huge chunk of our navy had just been
sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor. (The “huge chunk
of our navy” lost at Pearl Harbor were the
battleships. As it turned out WWII was fought in the
Pacific with mainly carriers; the age of Battleships
ended with the WWI battle of Jutland)

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 in one day,
because it was unable to oppose the German invasion,
and the Germans bombedBrussels 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 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; first turning
his attention to Russia at a time when England was on
the verge of collapse in the late summer of 1940.

Ironically, Russia saved America’s butt 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 million people in the
sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone, with 90% of
them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians.
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 . And the Nazis could possibly
have won the war.

All of this is to illustrate that turning
points in history are often dicey things. And 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, thenEurope, then the
world. And that 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.

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 known yet which 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.

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. And
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, orParis or Berlin ,
but in Iraq, where we are doing two important things:

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether
Saddam Hussein was directly involved in 9/11 or not,
it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively
supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam
was a terrorist. Saddam with deeds of torture and a
weapon of mass destruction, was responsible for the
deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two
million 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 nation.

World War II, the war with the German and
Japanese 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 America 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 again, a 27
year war.

World War II cost the United States an
amount equal to approximately a full year’s GDP
adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion
dollars. WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed
in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160
billion, which is roughly what 9/11 cost New York . It
has also cost about 2300 American lives, which is
regrettable.

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.

4. Or, 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.

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 million people, maybe
more than 100 million people, depending on which
estimates you accept.

The US has taken more than 2,300 killed in
action in Iraq . The US took more than 4,000 killed
in action on ONE morning ofJune 6, 1944 , the first
day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi
Imperialism. In WWII the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week
— for four years. Most of the individual battles of
WWII cost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has
done so far.

But now 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).

I would advise sending this to anyone who
did not experience WW-II.
ALSO, consider sending to those who did!

THIS IS HISTORY THAT HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF OUR
TEXTBOOKS.