| "American nuclear forces on global alert" is what | | | | And several years ago when Islamic factions took |
| CBS dished out as this author awoke on that chilly | | | | over town councils in two Italian villages through |
| October morning in 1973 while attending Madison | | | | the electoral process --- they called for the |
| College in Virginia. | | | | immediate shutdown of all Christian churches |
| This was Nixon's response to Brezhnev's | | | | within those municipalities even though the local |
| announcing the potential deployment of Soviet | | | | Christian community tolerated Islamic worship and |
| airborne troops into the midst of the Yom Kippur | | | | Mosques for many years. |
| War in an effort to stop Israel's advance toward | | | | This should give pause to all Americans about the |
| Cairo. | | | | enemy we face. Extreme elements within Islam |
| It was both amazing and amusing watching the | | | | have declared a "holy war" against America bent |
| Soviet's quickly back tract in the face of stern | | | | on its absolute destruction. |
| American resolve. | | | | Little attention was given to French President |
| To put things in a more contemporary setting is | | | | Jacques Chirac when he publicly announced last |
| to beg the question --- should the United States | | | | year that France would use nukes if attacked by |
| consider the use of nuclear weapons to deter | | | | Muslim extremists. |
| potential attacks by Muslim extremists. | | | | Since terrorists raid in small numbers and their |
| This politically incorrect notion must be given | | | | cells are dispersed within a country, Chirac wasn't |
| weight in light of the worldwide jihad that has | | | | talking about using nukes on his own soil. Neither |
| been declared against the U.S. by Muslim terrorists | | | | was he going to detonate one of those big |
| and the nation-states that support and hide them. | | | | firecrackers in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| It is nothing short of the 4th Crusade and it is | | | | His intention was very clear --- and "aimed" by |
| taking on religious overtones in the form of a | | | | way of the Middle East. |
| global holy war financed by these terrorist nations. | | | | Despite France's failed historic reliance on |
| It is fair to say that national dogma promulgated | | | | "appeasement diplomacy", their one great show |
| by an Islamic theocracy is more rigid and less | | | | of strength on this issue has thus far saved them |
| flexible than what is accepted within a pluralist | | | | from intimidation and attack. |
| democracy. | | | | Some say that using such powerful and |
| This is not to suggest that all Muslims are | | | | destructive weapons in retaliation of a Muslim |
| extremists and practice Islam by the strictest | | | | extremist attack is unfair and inhumane because |
| rules of the Koran. Many are fine citizens of | | | | the American government can't seem to exactly |
| democratic nations who enjoy the fruits and | | | | link the attacks to any particular nation. |
| prosperity of hard work within western cultures | | | | That leaves America exposed to even further |
| while practicing Islam. | | | | molestations. |
| And some would argue that Muslim extremists | | | | Political correctness should not hold back the |
| are no more radical than the extreme Christian | | | | United States from projecting and potentially using |
| Right in this country. | | | | its nuclear arsenal to protect its citizens and global |
| One thing is for sure --- Islamic culture in general | | | | interests from the very terrorist nations that |
| is more inflexible that Western culture by a | | | | seek our downfall by whatever means they can |
| county mile. | | | | employ. |
| This was demonstrated recently when the Muslim | | | | Surfacing a Trident submarine in the Persian Gulf |
| world refused to accept the Pope's repeated | | | | with hatches open may send a clear message to |
| apologies concerning his medieval reference to | | | | our foes, that unlike the prior Crusades, we intend |
| Allah being an evil force. | | | | to win this one. |