Fear is the dominant factor in our war against terrorism.  The republicans are afraid of failure, the democrats are afraid of success and western Europe is simply afraid.

The Bush administration, sure it could topple Saddam Hussein, was afraid (and remains so) to pursue Saddam’s co-conspirator, namely Syria’s  B’aathist Mr. Assad, for fear of expanding the war and reaping the negative attacks from the liberal media, congress and western Europe.  Like his father, in the first war against Iraq, he fears failure.  But we’re not in wars to strive for a “tie”, we’re supposed to go into war to win.

According to Israeli intelligence, and a top Iraqi air force general, while Bush was trying to appease nay-sayers at the United Nations, Saddam transferred his chemical weapons to Syria, stripping out commercial airliners and loading them up with his (WMD) weapons of mass destruction.

(Note: For those who say Bush lied about Saddam’s WMD, they are either blissfully  ignorant of recent history or deliberately lying for some perceived political gain or cocktail party one-upsmanship.  It is well documented that Saddam used WMD at least three times, against the Iranians in their prolonged war, against the Kurds in northern Iraq and against the “marsh” people of southern Iraq, where he sprayed chemicals onto one of the world’s largest marshes and then set it afire, simply because those people were deemed to be too independent…one can almost. but not quite,  hear the weeping of environmentalists.

Instead of following the trail of weapons, President Bush followed the scent of the polls and gave Syria a pass, lest he be perceived as being too aggressive.  Similarly, he is now trying to figure out how to best deal with Iran, a huge protaganist in the middle east, which acts and smells like a dog, sensing Bush’s fear of failure.

Even in the “war of the sexes”, people smell fear and insecurity, and either walk away or take advantage of the weaker one, depending upon whether they have short-term or long-term goals.  We’re doing neither, hoping to hold hands rather than seek consummation of the relationship.  This is no cowboy President.  Hold the barbecued ribs and serve him quiche.  John Wayne would’ve won this war 2 years ago.

And what can we expect, after intelligence reports tell us Al Qaeda has re-grouped in the hills of Pakistan?  Not much, I suspect, because the polls tell us we’ve lost our appetite for minor victories and Bush is afraid of the political cost of a major victory.  He’s a lame-duck president who now looks like chicken marsala.

But, I suggest, if the warlords of Pakistan and Afghanistan are willing to protect Osama bin Laden, then they have to be ready to die for their choice.  Carpet-bomb them!  In the scheme of things, if a couple hundred mountain ranges are flattened and opium growers are annihilated, who’s going to care 20 or 30 years from now if we can erase the cancer of Islamicists who want to bring us back to the 15th century, ruled by Shariah law.  It is a body of laws which is so mysoginist, so punitive that everyone but the strictist Muslims would be impugned or impaled.  Picture Maureen Dowd in a burqa, stripped of her feminity and her sacrcasm.

Residents of Dresden aren’t holding grudges; neither are the off-spring citizens of Hiroshima.  Sure, there’ll be cries, whimpers and whining from the liberals, but what the hell, victors write history, not those who enabled the losers, especially when the next generation gets to enjoy the benefits of both personal and economic freedom.

And, the democrats, the cheerleading team of Murtha, Pelosi and Reid, what are they  most afraid of?  A victory against terrorism, a victory for Bush.  They are afraid of success.  If Bush somehow wins the war on terrorism, or at least sets it back 10 years, they’re afraid they can’t elect a democractic president.  It has nothing to do with with what’s right, or what’s attainable for the nation, or the world, it’s about who  conquers the White House, not who preserves western civilization.

They want to raise taxes on the most successful of Americans, implicity telling their constuency that success is unattainable for them, and that the government will give them everything they need (assuming these people have no aspirations for themselves or their children, I must add).

Attack the successful!  Go after the pharmaceutical companies, the oil giants, the healthcare industry, and lastly, the financial indsutry.  Tax them to death til two things happen: Under-achievers are  placated and rewarded (and vote democratic), and capital (money has no conscious, nor should it have!) flows to it’s safe havens…places like the Cayman Islands, eastern Europe, which has lowered taxes and seen a boom in industry and employment, not to mention tax revenues (thank you, Arthur Laffer).  They will export our last strength: intellectual property.  Micky Mouse will neighbor with Mick Jagger on some Carribean Island.

God, are they afraid that Bush’s policies,  no matter how limp, will win the day against Islamic terrorism.  They declared the “surge” dead before the troops were deployed.  They don’t care about the millions of Iragis or those in Afghanistan who strive — and voted – for freedom.  They revel about the tolerance of diversity on the streets of their beloved San Francisco, where the porno-Mitchell Brothers became some sort of icon, and they neither see nor say anything about how women are treated under Shariah law (which should be relegated to the dust-bins of history, burned like Joan D’Arc, or at some college football or fraternity ceremony).

The democrats want the White House.  That is what they are concerned about conquering, not some antiquated, medieval movement that is trying to assert itself on the world, largely because of its own impotence over the last 400 years.  Islamicism is but a Viagra moment in history, with some artificial lasting power, but easily spent and cast aside, if we have the will to deal with it (we have the capability).

But we all cower, needlessly so.  There are approximately 1.25 billion Muslims, but nobody is doing the math:  Even if half of them are sympathic to random bombers or want Shariah law imposed on the rest of us, we need to count the 1 billion Catholics,  the 500 hundred million fundamentalist Christians, the hundreds of millions of Hindus and Sikhs and the13 million Jews, not to mention over 1 billion Chinese, who, at last report,  are aetheists. All are dogs to the Islamicists.  But these dogs can bite! It is these groups , who control all the technology of the world, all of industry and it is they who can muster the strength to fight this war to its proper end against the cavemen of the Islamicist world!

So while western Europe lanquishes, and tells its people not to even mention two words together — Islam and terrorism — and Bush tries for a “tie” and democrats seek to appease their way to the White House,  the Islamic terrorists persist.

But make no mistake, even if we end up with Hillary or Obama as president, the Islamic terrorists will overplay their hand, and land one too many bombs or missiles — and the west will react with a vengence not seen before, wiping out the cancer that nobody is quite  ready to extinquish!

Alan Bromley