THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VII, Issue # 164, August 1, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE NEW "ASYMETRICAL" WAR:
ALL WAR ALL THE TIME
By Alan Caruba
ISLAMISM VERSUS THE MODERN WORLD: AL-QA'IDA & THE DEADLY ISLAMIST JIHAD IT IS CURRENTLY WAGING
AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, & JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER NATION THAT TILTS
TOWARD MODERNITY OF ANY KIND -- AMERICA'S VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS & WHY THE U.S.A. MUST PROVIDE THE SECURITY
THAT IS NECESSARY FOR A WORLD SUFFICIENTLY PEACEFUL & STABLE TO CARRY ON NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS &
ENGAGE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: WHY EVERY SOVEREIGN STATE THAT THREATENS WORLD PEACE & STABILITY MUST
BE SUBJECTED TO MILITARY INVASION & REGIME CHANGE -- WHY AL-QA'IDA OR ANY OTHER JIHADIST GROUP MUST BE
SUBJECTED TO THE RELENTLESS HUNT TO FIND & KILL ITS LEADERS & FOLLOWERS
FULL STORY:
I have a friend who recently made a list of all the foreign nations and notorious foreign individuals that have openly suggested they
would like to “nuke” the United States of America. The list includes North Korea, a general in Red China, and, as soon as its leaders
announce they have perfected a bomb of their own, we can add Iran to the list. Lots of other nations have nukes, including Great
Britain, France, India, Pakistan, and the Russian Republic.
If the U.S.A. does suffer a nuclear attack, however, it is more likely to be at the hands of agents of al-Qa'ida. It is not a nation-state,
but it is at war with the U.S.A. and just about every other nation that tilts toward modernity of any kind. Al-Qa'ida, an equal
opportunity network of Islamist terrorists, doesn’t mind killing either infidels or other Muslims. One has to pause to think of
nation-states in which and against which al-Qa'ida has not used terror as its calling card.
I got to thinking about this on July 20, 2005, when the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, issued a
warning citing evidence of “operational planning” in the one nation-state most responsible for the existence of al-Qa'ida. Osama bin
Laden was born in Saudi Arabia and is a member of one of its most prestigious families. At some point, this spoiled little rich boy
experienced some kind of epiphany that led him to reject the royal family while committing his life to the Wahabbi interpretation of
Islam the royal family had promulgated since the days when Abdel Aziz ibin Saud set out to conquer or buy off the other tribes of
the vast desert peninsula.
In 1933, he proclaimed the country unified as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, other than fees collected from pilgrims
traveling to Mecca, this king was broke. Two thirds of his “Kingdom” was uninhabitable desert when the first oilmen arrived. Had it
not been for their modern science and the world’s increasing need for new sources of oil, the royal family would still be living in
tents or mud dwellings. It was not ibin Saud who built modern Saudi Arabia, it was Aramco, the American oil company that
discovered and developed the source of the royal family’s obscene wealth to this day.
Flash forward to July 20, 2005, and today. Saudi Arabia, the Sunni citadel responsible for the worldwide spread of the most backward
form of Islam extant, is now the victim of its own success. Already, it has tasted the wrath of al-Qa'ida for permitting “foreign”, i.e.,
American troops, on its “sacred sands.” Since it does billions of dollars of business with America, Saudi Arabia's oil wells and
refineries are the natural target of those who want to drag Saudi Arabia back to the "good old days" when camels and goats were
currency.
Since al-Qa'ida is largely funded by every criminal activity you can name, it can afford to be indifferent to the oil riches of the Saudi
royal family. If, however, it can destroy the royal family's grip on its “sacred sands,” access to the oil would make al-Qa'ida the most
powerful force for the domination of Islam, the most powerful such force to ever have existed. There isn’t a single Muslim on Earth
that does not know this.
And people wonder why the United States of America invaded Iraq. The world’s greatest nation-state is engaged in a whole new
kind of war. It is the famed “asymmetrical” war in which the enemy is everywhere and nowhere. As Donald Rumsfeld, the current
U.S. Secretary of Defense, put it, “Our challenge in this new century is a difficult one: to defend our nation against the unknown,
the uncertain, the unseen, and the unexpected.”
In other words, all war all the time!
Don’t believe me? As the new millennium dawned, there were almost two thousand sustained armed conflicts in effect throughout
the whole of the world.
It is the reason the United States of America has its troops posted all over the world, as often as not at the invitation of those
nations where we conduct the business of fulltime war against an unseen enemy and, occasionally as was the case of Iraq, against
a nation-state that is a threat to world order. Recall, please, Saddam Hussein’s invasions of both Iran and Kuwait.
This is not to say the U.S. effort in Iraq will prove a success; only that it was the right thing to do at the time.
That is the job of the United States of America. Our greatest export is security. It is necessary for a world that is stable enough to
engage in trade. It is necessary to our economic growth. Any nation-state or any group such as al-Qa'ida that threatens that
stability is going to find itself subject to “regime change” or the relentless hunt to find and kill its leaders and followers.
Do you think the 2008 election will change this? Or those to follow? Unless we destroy al-Qa'ida, i.e. the renewed Islamic Jihad, there
will be no United States of America in which to hold an election. We have only one choice, and it is all war all the time for very long
time to come.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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The Middle East & the Arabs
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
© Alan Caruba 2005
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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