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Originally Posted by Guymullins
As anti-Muslim feelings are pretty high at present, I began thinking that history is beginning to repeat itself. An enemy from the East has emerged again. An unprovoked and sudden attack on America took place. The enemy has no regard for the normal rules of war or the sacred nature of life, either his own or his enemies.
The attacks on Pearl Harbor and on the Twin Towers are similar. No declaration of war, no warning and no respect for civilian lives. The Kamikazi suicide pilots are again similar to the suicide bombers of Islam today. They have no respect for life. Their own or anyone else's. As the Americans found in WW2, there is no way you can deal with an enemy such as this. The Japanese were happy to die for their Emperor, and were happy to take anyone with them. Todays Muslim Jihadist feels the same way about dying for Allah.
What to do?
The Americans came to the conclusion in 1945, that the only way to deal with such an enemy is to show them what total annihilation looks like. Two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki stopped the war in its tracks. What will it take to tame the Muslims?
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I'm wondering if the rinse and repeat of islamic radicalism isn't as much a repeat of fanatical Japanese imperialism but a repeat analog of global communism.
I remember as a kid that a common opinion was that all communists were perfectly aligned and out to get us capitalists in a very aggressive and kinetic sense.
But as it turned out the communists often hated each other more than they hated us capitalists. They were not particularly well aligned/arrayed/synchronized against us(Tet, Pueblo/Walker, Blue House Raid example notwithstanding).
Even their successes in places like Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was a highly competitive, rather than a complementary communist effort in a 3 sided war that many thought was only 2 sided. Russia and China were each out to win at the other's expense.
Nixon going to China leveraged a seam/rift between the two biggest communist powers a few years beforehand.
I kinda see the same thing today.
Islam has a number of very substantial rifts(Shia/Sunni) as well as countless regional/local rifts(we are seeing a few now with ISIS).
Personally, I think every effort should be made to exploit those rifts and seams within Islam to encourage it to eat itself, but taking into account potentially malignant long term 2nd/3rd order effects that impact energy supply.
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Sadly, another comparison I see with "islam being the new communism" is the genuine threat represented by the non-kinetic UW slice of the Cold War where the highly toxic pollution from communist efforts to undermine the capitalist west seem to have festered.
To me it looks like 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell, the oversimplistic answer everyone seems to believe is that the "US/West won the Cold War".
I think a more realistic answer is that the US/West decisively won the biggest battle of the Cold War to date, but got dosed with some polonium.
Everyone seemed to focus on the temporary victory they thought was permanent, without bothering to check if we were wounded in the multi-decade long contact.
I'm not so much worried about the kinetic threat posed by islam as I am the non-kinetic UW "long game" secondary islamic infection magnified by the weakness coming from that dose of communist polonium.