Three wars and the big yawn.

We might as well steal all of Frances Porretto's stuff and slap the Colonel's name on it. Or just post a link to his stuff and say, "Us too."

Today he talks about the three wars going on. Numero uno being the war in Iraq, two and three being the war against the Allahpaths and the war against the West, which latter war also includes the threat posed by "Transnational Progressivism":

However, Islam-powered terrorism is like a fresh-water spring. Such a spring exists because of a large sub-surface lake, whose water is under sufficient pressure to bubble forth on the surface. Islamic terrorist deeds are the work of a relatively small number of jihadis; those deeds are made possible by the far larger number of Muslims who approve and support them. We've had good success at suppressing the "spring," or draining off its "water," but the "lake" remains to be dealt with. There's some question whether we even know how to begin.

Third, and arguably most important of the three, is the war in defense of Western Christian-Enlightenment culture. A shocking number of Europeans, Britons and Canadians are willfully blind to the Islamic demographic threat. Your Curmudgeon does not say this lightly. Western Europe, in particular, has all but committed socio-cultural suicide with its open-door immigration policy toward the Muslim Middle East.

One reason we don't know where to begin is that we cling so tenaciously to the idea that there must be absolutely equal rights and that any kind of religious discrimination is verboten. We managed to work out a Moses Vivendi in the early years of The Republic in which Christians learned that if you took after one man's brand of The One True Gospel due to obvious heresy it made for what we now like to call "deadly sectarian strife." How bad it got we have not endeavored to study up on. But it was bad enough for people to decide to call a truce and let each man name a poison of his own, even if he was fool enough to name one different from one's own.

Today, it doesn't strike some Americans Democrats as odd in the least that we should actively encourage large numbers of Muslims to enter the country so we can have a reprise of that earlier battle, only this time not a battle between white zinfandel and rosé, say, but a whole new battle between oil and water. How cool is that?

To the Colonel it's a self evident proposition that it's utter madness to bring before the hearthstone violent and hostile people fanatically committed to dumb ass ideas that never will be reconciled in any significant or meaningful way with the ideas of the West. E.g., death for apostasy.

Ergo, this "religion" is anything but sacrosanct and untouchable by our laws. To our way of thinking, anyone who counts himself a "true" Muslim or so much as mentions a suspect tactical principle verse of the Muslim field manual on guerilla warfare Koran should merit nothing less than a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia there to be processed to his or her onward destination with Saudi funds. Islam should be treated as nothing less than an illegal and subversive action plan for subversion and overthrow of the government.

Anyone who is stuck on stupid and decries departure from the suicidal "norm" is simply guilty of a monumental failure of analysis. The fact that similar people with a common culture worked out a way to live with inconsequential doctrinal differences is not a basis for the conclusion that such an arrangement is possible with just anybody. We are witnessing the proof of Mark Twain's dictum about a cat, having once sat on a hot stove, will never again sit on a cold stove either. Just because Problem 5475.8(b) was solved by Solution A-866-101.4 doesn't mean that Problem 9086.3(a) can be solved by the said Solution A-866-101.4.

Thus, the way to begin to deal with War # 2 is to call Islam what it is: a backward, violent doctrine that is the scourge of the world and the absolute gold-plated, USDA-approved bedrock guarantee that scientific, economic, and moral stagnation will infest the culture wherein it is dominant. Rejection and isolation are the Colonel's present favored solutions for Muslims who refuse unequivocally to abandon Islam. Only a Bowdlerized version of Islam should have even a chance at survival in our midst.

A good job for the PC crowd: edit the Koran down to an inoffensive and flaccid core of mush.

But back to the "three wars" deal:

When we say, "the war's going well," or "the war's going badly," we must take care to specify the war of which we speak. The ongoing conflict in Iraq is of some importance to us, both immediately and in the near future. The broader, more diffuse War on Terror is of greater importance in the intermediate future. The war for the survival of Christian-Enlightenment civilization, strokes [strikes?] in which are seldom obvious and are never acknowledged as such by the Old Media, is a contest over the entire future of Man.

Are you enlisted in any of these wars? Which ones? Your Curmudgeon wants to know.

Good questions. What war strikes you as something demanding a smidgen of effort, of commitment, or of sacrifice? Or are you somehow under the impression that if there were no Iraq war, then the world will revert to the default condition of "peace"?

Or do you believe that "peace" will burst out as soon as the West stops being the West, our being the theocracy-loving, money-grubbing pricks that we are?

"Which War?" By Francis W. Porretto, Eternity Road, 3/14/07 (emphasis added). /11/06.