I ran across this article at Family Security Matters, written by Tom McLaughlin that really does a nice job of underlining why we are fighting the terrorists and also, why we must enter the fray of propaganda in order to make the true position more clear.
It's my view that McLaughlin hits the nail on the head when he describes the following:
He details out how and why Americans literally do not view the threat. Some people, including me, simply cannot fathom how ANY American cannot see the threat to our Land from islamofascism. It simply boggles my mind how a person can walk around America and be blind to this threat.
Another example of what the author points out as a fact:
Does that argument sound familiar? Well, for one, that stance has been put out there by the man running for the Office of the Presidency - Barack Obama has said that there were no al Qaeda in Iraq prior to us going in there. He has made the claim that we , the U.S., created that anger and brought terrorists out of the woodwork.
It's my feeling that McLaughlin has really nailed it with his call for the U.S., for people like you and me, to actively engage the Country in this propaganda war. We HAVE to keep hammering the message of the threat. The stakes are simply too high for us to stand by and let the Left and the jihadists control the spin on the World's number one evil.
It's my view that McLaughlin hits the nail on the head when he describes the following:
Our enemy is winning the war of ideas because they have no opposition. Propagandizing doesn’t mean telling lies the way our enemy does, it means making our case. It’s teaching Americans what our enemies want to do to us. It’s outlining the choices the world has to make, including people in Iran, Syria, and every other country supporting terrorism. Do you want to live under Sharia Law or not? Do you want schools teaching your children to become suicide bombers? Decide. Then take a side. There’s no middle ground.
He details out how and why Americans literally do not view the threat. Some people, including me, simply cannot fathom how ANY American cannot see the threat to our Land from islamofascism. It simply boggles my mind how a person can walk around America and be blind to this threat.
Another example of what the author points out as a fact:
Still others insist that, while it may seem wrong that radical Muslims want to kill us, they’re following the dictates of their culture and we cannot condemn them because all cultures are equal. Ours is no better than theirs. When we fight back, we make Islamofascists angrier, producing more terrorists.
Does that argument sound familiar? Well, for one, that stance has been put out there by the man running for the Office of the Presidency - Barack Obama has said that there were no al Qaeda in Iraq prior to us going in there. He has made the claim that we , the U.S., created that anger and brought terrorists out of the woodwork.
It's my feeling that McLaughlin has really nailed it with his call for the U.S., for people like you and me, to actively engage the Country in this propaganda war. We HAVE to keep hammering the message of the threat. The stakes are simply too high for us to stand by and let the Left and the jihadists control the spin on the World's number one evil.
Why We Fight
Tom McLaughlin
We’re the good guys. They’re the bad guys. It’s really that simple, but Americans don’t know it and that’s why we’re in danger of losing this war. Many hear that we’re the bad guys and our enemies are justified. Most recently it was Barack Obama’s minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preaching “White America” got what it deserved on September 11th. Before him, it was former University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill who called the 3,000 victims “Little Eichmans” after the Nazi murderer. Before him, University of New Mexico Professor Richard Berthold taught that: "Anyone who can bomb the Pentagon has my vote."Others scoff at my good guys/bad guys synopsis, insisting it’s not that simple. According to them, there is no good/bad, right/wrong. Everything is gray. Everything is relative, and they believe that anyone who sees this war as I do is unintelligent at best and a warmonger at worst.Still others insist that, while it may seem wrong that radical Muslims want to kill us, they’re following the dictates of their culture and we cannot condemn them because all cultures are equal. Ours is no better than theirs. When we fight back, we make Islamofascists angrier, producing more terrorists.Then there are the pacifists with bumper stickers professing “War is Not the Answer” no matter what the question – even if the question is, “How can we stop those proclaiming ‘Death to America’ from killing us?”Liberals embrace some combination of the above, constantly reinforced by a Mainstream Media reporting only when the war is going badly for us. It’s no wonder America is divided. Clearly we’re losing the propaganda war, which is becoming the most important theater in our struggle against radical Islam. We haven’t even begun to fight it.
Our enemies propagandize so effectively that, although they shoot rockets into Israel every single day, the world sees them as the victims. Hamas terrorists know Israel must kill civilians to take out their rocket launchers and this generates more grist for the propaganda mill. And when it threatens to stop supplying electricity, fuel and water to the very people trying to kill them Israel is condemned! Can propaganda be any more effective than that? I don’t see how.
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