A Fundamental Fact Of War With Fundamentalists

Bob Newman

There’s nothing so clarifying as standing among hundreds of dead bodies.

I’ve had to do that a couple of times: once in 1983 when I was the Marine Corps’ liaison to the FBI forensics team working to identify 241 dead Marines and sailors who had perished in Beirut, and the second time in Kuwait on the Highway to Hell, where hundreds of Iraqi soldiers paid the ultimate price for their crimes against humanity in a grisly, miles-long jumble of mangled vehicles on the road between Kuwait City and Basra. (Sometimes nightmares of the Beirut bodies haunt me, but the Highway to Hell bodies never invade my sleep, I suppose because the latter were scum-sucking bottom feeders who got what was coming to them.)

Experiences such as these clarify things in one’s mind because it reveals a basic truism many Americans still cannot—and perhaps never will—grasp. That truism is that we are at war with fundamental Islam.

Many Americans can’t or won’t understand this, some because they are simply too stupid or naïve to get a grip on the fact that we are at war with a monster that wants every American man, woman and child dead, and others because of their blinding hatred for a president who is quite clearly willing to do his duty. In a weird sort of way, our enemy loves those who love John Kerry.

The slaughter at a school in southern Russia should not have come as a surprise to anyone, but it no doubt did to some. I first began warning in the fall of 2001 that Muslim terrorists would target schools filled with children. Some self-proclaimed terrorism analysts also in the media disagreed with me, saying terrorists would not intentionally target kids because of the negative publicity. These pundits fail to understand the underlying tenet of terrorism, which is any publicity is good publicity when that publicity is seen by certain factions as Islam striking back at who tens of millions of Muslims perceive as their enemy. And their perceived enemy’s children, according to scores of Muslim clerics around the world (and governments like those of Syria and Iran) are just as legitimate and valuable a target as adults.

Why? Because those children are not only the spawn of infidel evil, but they will soon grow into adulthood, from which additional evil, such as Western influence, concepts, values and principles, will come.

The greatest fear of fundamentalist Islam is that the West will reveal this vile hoard to be precisely that: a maniacal mob of feral fiends in league with Beelzebub. Yet it matters not to many Americans how many innocents die gruesome deaths at the hands of these killers, for some politically correct, sensitive Americans (and one presidential candidate), and perhaps even more Europeans of the same ilk, fatally insist on believing we can talk these brutes out of it. Nevertheless, reality tells those who will listen to reason that, just as you can’t talk a black mamba out of chasing you down and biting you, nor can you talk fascist jihadists out of it. They’ve gone after Israeli children and now Russian children. Eventually American children will be targeted. Those who don’t believe that are fools. France and now Russia have learned how strategically unsound it is to refuse to fight terrorists abroad, for reports say 10 of the schoolyard terrorists were Arabs; hired guns on loan from al Qaeda. Will we, too, succumb to pressure from the foolhardy left to pull back?
Our enemy understands two things: pain and death.

Given this undeniable fact, if we are to prevent this festering faction of Islam from repeating their heinous deeds of last week on American soil, we must stand and deliver horrific pain and grim death to their doorstep, regardless of where that doorstep is found and regardless of what the corrupt and morally bankrupt United Nations has to say about it.

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Bob Newman, a decorated, retired US Marine, is co-host of "Redmond & Newman http://www.khow.com/hosts/redmond_newman.html on 630 KHOW in Denver. His “Global Positioning Statement,” a daily insider’s update on the war on terror, is carried by various Clear Channel radio stations from coast to coast. A ground-combat veteran, “Gunny Bob” is the director of international security & counterterrorism services for The GeoScope Group and is the military & terrorism columnist for The Denver Daily News.

bobnewman@clearchannel.com