CHAMBERLAIN'S GHOST ...

The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has been has been as painful for Israel to execute as a self-inflicted root canal without anesthesia. As the world watches these scenes of exodus from Gaza - we still look to Israel to make even further concessions in the future for the sake of peace in the Middle East.

And to meet our expectations, Israel will make those concessessions. They are following the "Roadmap to Peace" that the United States, with the help of a few other countries, created for them - well, maybe forced on them.

But what of the Palestinians? What concessions are to be made by them? We may have our answer in the form of two mortar attacks that originated on Jordanian soil which apparently Al Qaeda has just claimed responsibility for ...

One mortar was launched at Israel - the only side making concessions for peace right now and ...

One from the same terrorists launched against a U.S. Navy ship moored in Jordan itself.

Even as the U.S. and Israel takes positive steps to bring about a Palestinian nation - the first one in history - we're being attacked!

So the response we get from the Islamofascists for making concessions to the Palestinians is a message of negative reenforcement - not only aimed at the Israeli's who are complying with the "Roadmap for Peace" - but also aimed at the United States - the nation that pushed the "Roadmap for Peace" on the Israeli's and has held them accountable for progress within it.

What we hope to gain out of this "peace" exercise is an independent Palestinian state that can live in peaceful coexistence with Israel. And we also hope to gain a margin of peace from the Islamofascist elements like Al Qaeda that continue to dominate the Islamic world.

That is a hopeless prospect both historically, at the current moment, and for the foreseeable future unless the Palestinians and the Islamofascists change their habits - and beliefs.

Rather than being a "Roadmap for Peace" - this is a "Roadmap for Appeasment".

Palestinian political power is too deeply vested in terrorism to hope for any peace through "appeasement" and Palestinians, in spite of any statements from the Palestinian Authority otherwise, still do not accept Israel's right to exist and are committed to it's destruction. Sufficient evidence of this can be found in the statements of any of the plethora of Palestinian terrorists organizations that flourish even today under the Palestinian Authority. To these organizations, there is no difference between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and Tel Aviv - they are all PALESTINE. They will never end their commitment to Israel's demise.

(Sidenote - according to Cindy Al Sheehani - Tel Aviv is also in Palestine)

And further, the Palestinian CAUSE is too deeply vested in Islamic global extremism to even hope for peace in the Middle East right now.

This is no longer an Israeli vs Palistinian conflict. This is what the neo-Neville Chamberlain's who advocate appeasement haven't picked up on yet.

The terrorism that visited the Munich Games in 1972 may have been about the Palestinians and Israel - but it very quickly "mutated" into something completely different.

It "mutated" into World War IV.

(For clarification - I count the COLD WAR as WWIII - so the GWOT is WWIV)

For those who still have not recognized it - we are now fighting WWIV - and we've been fighting it in varying intensity, yet in complete oblivion, since the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979.

When Ayatollah Khomeini led the Islamofascists in Iran to power in 1979, one of his major grievances was Israel. However, the destruction of Israel wasn't number one on his agenda - not even close. It's no mistake that the American embassy in Tehran was singled out for attack that year. And it wasn't singled out because of American support of Israel. It wasn't singled out for attack because of American support of the Shah - which completely evaporated anyway during Jimmy Carter's administration. It WAS singled out because America is the "Great Satan" of the Western, Non-Islamic world. The Iranian Revolution was not just an "Iranian thing" - it was the birth of the Islamofascist Revolution of the World - it was the birth of WWIV - and it's coming to a theater REALLY near you!

People scoff at this assertion today - but I believe that 100 years from now historians will recognize in hindsight what we fail to realize today - that we are in a GLOBAL fight to preserve our Democratic way of life and the Islamofascists are in a GLOBAL fight to spread Islamic fanaticism throughout the world. Their goal will not be realized with the destruction of Israel - and it certainly won't be realized through any agreement or roadmap that creates a soveriegn Palestinian nation while Israel remains intact. Their goal can only be realized through the destruction of the United States and the other Western Democracies.

If Ayotollah Khomeini started this Islamic revolution - it was Osama Bin Laden who inherited it's leadership and spread it globally. The person of Bin Laden, however, is not the Islamo-facist revolution. If he were - it would end when we finally catch him and kill him. It will not end with him though - someone else will pick up the mantle and continue it. We already have clear signs that this is happening now. There is no way that Bin Laden can be taking an active role in leading his Islamo-facist revolution. Leading means communicating and directing and if he were doing much of that these days - we'd have detected his location by now and captured him. He's a figurehead in hiding - and others are doing the "heavy lifting" for both him and his revolution. He could die tomorrow and this thing would not be over - and that's really what President Bush meant when he said "I don't think about him much". Bin Laden isn't our main problem here and Bush has always known this.

If you look at the terrorism perpetuated by the Islamofascists since 1979 - how could anyone conclude that all of it is "just" about Israel? And if you listen to the words of the Islamo-fascists themselves - how could anyone conclude that all of this is "just" about removing Western colonial influences from the Arab lands? All one has to do is listen to every single fanatical Muslim cleric in the world today. They have declared a "Jihad" on the West and that Jihad won't end with the simple anihilation of Israel - even if we gave it to them on a silver platter. Radical British Muslim clerics speak lovingly of their dream that Britain herself will be a part of the Islamic Caliphate someday - and the same can be said for radical Muslim clerics in the U.S. And you really don't want to know what the clerics in Saudi Arabia say about this - they are preaching a brand of hatred that is truely terrifying - or should be - to all of us in the world of the "infidel". Their words also make it clear that this war is about global Islamic domination - and elimination of Jews and "Infidels".

Do we think that these radial clerics are just kidding around here? Do we think that somehow they do not enjoy the vast support of the Arab / Islamic world populations?

If that is what we believe - we're seriously mistaken.

It's no accident that we haven't captured or killed Bin Laden yet. Despite being the undisputed most hunted man in the history of the entire human race - he has evaded us. Despite having the largest bounty placed on a human head in the history of civilization - he has escaped us. He's been successful in this for one reason - the Islamic people support him and protect him.

The same can be said for Zarqawi in Iraq. Even when we've gravely injured him - he still evades us because the people support and protect him also.

We have been unable to disrupt the flood of Islamic suicide bombers. Let's think about this for a second. A suicide bomber is a "one time" use commodity - yet there seems to be no end to the number of Islamo-fascists who eagerly step up to the plate to don a "suicide vest". No movement resorts to suicide as a form of warfare unless (a) the movement is in it's "death throes" - i.e. the Japanese in WWII with their Kamakazes or ... (b) the movement has an infinite supply of willing candidates.

The Islamofascist movement is certainly NOT in it's "death throes". They realize they have the popular support of their people and can keep up these types of attacks for generations if necessary. However, they don't have to keep it up for "generations". They only have to keep it up long enough to gain a nuclear weapon. At that point - they won't need too many suicidal biological assets. One or two will be enough to make the entire world stop and take note.

The Islamic "bomb" exists now in Pakistan - and it is tenuously protected by one man ... Pervez Musharaff. He is really all that stands between the Islamo-facists and that bomb. Musharaff came to power in Pakistan via military coup in October, 1999 - and he has run a pitched battle with Islamofascists to maintain control of the country since then. Fortunately for us, Musharaff is a sharp guy and has been able to keep the extremists under control through the use, and threatened use of military force against the extremists - as well as some skillful political manuevering. The good news here is that there are indications that Musharaff is winning his battle against the extremists and is solidifying his control over them. But the fact is, if he looses his grip on Pakistan - then the "Islamic Bomb" is likely to come under the control of the extremists.

We should all say a prayer for Musharaff every night before we hit the sack.

But even if Musharaff maintains control of the "Islamic Bomb" in Pakistan - Iran most certainly will develop it's own. At that point, the dance is over - and the Islamic extremists will have the bomb. The West will be unable to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. We'd be much better off to forget about devising ways to prevent Islamo-fanatism from gaining nuclear weapons - and start concentrating on ways to deal with it when they do.

A nuclear capable Islamofacist enemy is inevitable and it could happen as early as tomorrow morning if we wake up and find that Musharaff has been muscled from power by the fanatics in Pakistan..

The point is - what we've seen so far in the Global War on Terror - WWIV - has been nothing but fun and games. The really scary stuff is just around the corner.

In this worldwide view of Islamo-fanaticism, we can see that ISRAEL is only one of the battlefronts. Neville Chamberlain's approach to the rising German threat was to appease Hitler. Hitler readily agreed to sign the document that Chamberlain hailed as "Peace in our time". We all know what followed.

The Islamo-facists are no different. The Oslo accords and Bill Clinton's attempt to save it practically gave the Palestinians their own nation for the first time in history - virtually everything they wanted (except the complete destruction of Israel). The result was a complete breakdown of the process and an aggressive renewal of Palestinian terrorism.

Every step forward toward peace, every consession, every compromise made by the West and Israel has been met with increased violence from the Islamo-facists. It should be clear to us on this side that we are dealing with an enemy that views civility and compromise as evidence of weakness.

When viewed in the context of terroristic activities over the last 30 years - it should be clear to us that the only gains we have made toward reducing terrorism have come on the few occasions when we refused to compromise with the terrorists - and if necessary - confronted them.

In the four years since 9-11, shortly after which the Global War on Terror began - we have had no further attacks inside the U.S. We have had no U.S. embassies overrun, or bombed - anywhere in the world. No airliners hijacked - nor cruise vessels. We have had no futher incidents like the USS COLE bombing. The mortar attack on the U.S. Navy ship in Jordan this morning cannot even be compared to the USS COLE. So for four years of aggressive fighting in the GWOT - the terrorist attacks against have been virtually ZERO. Find any four-year period during Chamberlain's, ahem - excuse me -- CLINTON's administration when we weren't attacked?

But what of the attacks against us in Iraq you say? That's a war - and that's were we WANT to take the attacks. Well-equipped, TRAINED Soldiers such as our stand a fighting chance against terrorists - Kindergarten schoolchildren in Omaha, Nebraska do not! And for all our casualities in Iraq - we have taken THOUSANDS of terrorists out of action. That's something that Bill Clinton can't claim.

And the attack in Britain on 7/7 - even the British government, who has every reason to wish that the attack were linked to global Al Qaeda - are now saying that it looks like the work of cell(s) completely internal to Britain. The follow up attack on 7/21 was a bizarre, impotent effort. The two attacks achieved only one goal - in solidifying British resolve to prevail over internal Islamic radicalism - and that's certainly no victory for Al Qaeda. Britain has already begun rounding up and deporting Islamo-fascists that, before the attacks, moved about the country and spoke their venomous hatred with complete freedom. So these attacks did nothing positive for the global vision of Al Qaeda.

There is no doubt that, since 9-11, we have severely wounded the ability of the Islamofascists to coordinate global attacks of terrorism. And we have severely curtailed, and perhaps eliminated, their ability for LARGE SCALE attacks such as 9-11.

Contrast the last four years with the decade preceding them. A decade when we did little to confront the Islamofascists - a decade when the terrorists knew we weren't serious about going after them - a decade when terrorism and Islamofascism grew like a plague.

The answer is to confront them - not to appease them. And that is why the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza will simply encourage them.

Bush, aside from the "Roadmap to Peace" - is on the right track. We have made some tremendous, stunning gains in the Islamic world as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Bush's one error here may be in the faith that he placed in his own people (that would be you and I) to see this Global War on Terror through though.

Anyone who thinks that Israel's pullout from Gaza will result in peace is seriously deluding themselves. Like it or not - Israel and the U.S. have found themselves a common enemy in Islamofascism.

And this fight has just begun!