CAN PRES BUSH’S HOPE MATCH REALITY?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Here are US President George W. Bush’s postulates and hopes when addressing the world on the evening of September 11, 2006:

"We are safer but not yet safe.

"On 9/11 our nation saw the face of evil.

"For many of our citizens the wounds of that morning are still fresh.

"We have learned that the enemy is evil and kills without mercy. The enemy forms a global network of extremists. . .that hates freedom and rejects tolerance.

"We know that if they (the enemies) are able to get their weapons of mass destruction, they would use them against us.

"America did not ask for this war and every American wishes it were over. But the war is not over and the war will not be over until we or the extremists will be victorious.

"We are at a war that will set the course of this new century.

"9/11 changed the way we look at the world.

"I’m often asked why we are in Iraq. The answer is that the regime of Saddam Hussein was a clear threat. The United Nations saw the threat. After 9/11, the world is safer because Saddam Hussein is no longer in power.

"Al-Qaeda has come to Iraq to stop the rise of a free society. Al-Qaeda has joined the remnants of Hussein’s regime.

"We are adapting to stay ahead of the enemy. We are training Iraqi troops so that they can defend their nation. We will not leave until this work is done.

"The safety of America depends on (what happens in Iraq.)

"Every one of our troops is a volunteer. In Iraq, Afghanistan and other fronts, the men and women of our military are making great sacrifices to keep us safe. America cherishes their memory. We will never back down from the work they have begun.

"We have created the Department of Homeland Security.

"We have tightened the security at airports and seaports.

"We have broken up terrorist cells in our midst.

"Al-Qaeda has carried out terrorist attacks in more than two dozen nations. They remain determined to attack America and kill our citizens.

"In the first days after 9/11, I promised to use every power to fight the terrorist. The power of freedom is feared by terrorists.

"It is a struggle for civilization. We are fighting to maintain . . . free nations.

"We are now in the early hours of this struggle between tyranny and freedom.

"There are brave men and women (in Middle East countries) who are risking their lives each day.

"By standing with democratic leaders and reformers, we are offering a path away from radicalism.

"We look to the day when moms and dads of the Middle East (can know freedom).

"On this solemn anniversary we dedicate ourselves to this cause. Our nation has endured trials. We must put aside our differences to work together. We will defeat our enemies. We will protect our people."

I have reality questions that are not meant to contest the President’s sincerity but to bring to the fore reality:

Do Muslim fighters in the streets care at all as to what Mr. Bush said this evening? They don’t seem to care at all. They care to wake up tomorrow to kill themselves in suicide sacrifices and / or slay competing Muslims or lay low infidels.

Do Muslim countries that are entrenched in evil ways such as "honor killing," burying the adultery-accused in earth piles to bash in their heads till killed, lashing youths at public posts, beating females for no reason, beheading enemies, and training children how to hate particularly "Jew-pigs" have the wherewithal to reverse themselves to revere personal freedoms?

Can a Judeo-Christian heritage democracy expect a killing and maiming cult over centuries to convert rapidly from murder to mercy, killing to kindness, and lying to loving?

Mr. Bush still appears to believe that there is a ground swell of support in Muslim countries for civility. What seems to be actual is that there is a ground swell of support in Muslim countries for the abhorrent sharia — the hellish "legal" system condoned by Islamic clerics and backed by Koran verses.

Mr. Bush seems to hope that demonic cultic tenets can be reversed to moral base lines in Islamic nations. That however is asking centuries-bound fanatics to come to reason. That is to ask torture training schools to close, suicide-supporting parents to quit prodding their offspring to kill themselves for Allah, and Islamic clerics to change their hate-preaching to love and caring.

Recall when a Muslim in Afghanistan converted to Christ? What happened? Muslims in great number threatened to crucify him via the sharia "legal" system, for that is what Allah demands of the convert to another religion.

Recall when multinational troops in Iraq committed heinous acts against civilians. Iraqi Muslims demanded that they be put to trail via the sharia.

Recall when the Muslim Jordanian king sided with logic concerning democracy’s advancements. His own Jordanian Muslims threatened to behead him in public.

I would ask Mr. Bush if his well-intended hope is simply unreal as related to today’s Muslim cult worldwide.

Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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ALLAH: "Fight, slay Unbelievers wherever ye find them.Seize them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
Qur'an, Sura 9:5
CHRIST: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16