The 100 years War

I'm not talking about the historical 100 years war but the one the world is in now with fundamentalist terrorist Islam and Al Quaida.

I was watching NBC news on tv tonight and saw how bad things are going in Pakistan. A 12 year old boy from a Madras said, "I want to fight the sons of Bush". I found listening to a 12 year old boy telling us with his kalashnikov near by that he wanted to fight the sons of Bush very unsettling. However, this actually is what the world is in for since we didn't insist on all the Madras' being shut down. Until the Madras' or children's Islamic terrorist schools, are all shut down a never ending supply of terrorist enemies into the future will arise one by one, adding to the bankruptcy of the free world. Though these children likely will all be killed as adults one by one it will be very expensive both in free world lives lost and to both Christian, Islamic and secular cultures.

No one really ever wins a cultural war really. Unless you read the old testament where they extincted every man, woman and child of an opposing culture. War, at least for the western world is very impersonal because of the secular nature of most of the western world and the way most western people are educated. So this war, in general will be fought by the poorest educated in both worlds, with only the officers of both sides with college educations.

Also, since this is an asymmetric war it must be also fought this way, not with traditional war styles. I think the near bankruptcy of the free world is its inability to move away from traditional war styles and mostly into asymmetric warfare. Most of the money has been wasted by putting men into situations that aren't financially efficient and only lead to bankrupt nations. For the west even to maintain any stability at all, EFFICIENCY in the use of all monies must be the primary concern. Otherwise, the west WILL lose this war!

It is also VERY important that everyone possible in the Western world educate themselves about the difference between Sunni al Quaida terrorists and Shia Iranian Terrorists. Generally, the only people that the Sunni and Shias hate more than each other is the secular Christian world. So it is in the interest of the western world to foster the hate between terrorist Shia and terrorist Sunni if the western world wants to survive the next 100 years as a Christian secular world.

However, I abhor hatred toward any peoples. I would prefer understanding grow between all groups. But if one must fight to survive it is important to be absolutely ruthless about it. Otherwise one is just a poser and to be a poser is to be living joke to all sides.

The frustrating thing about history is that there will be no real winner in this war even if it lasts 100 years, only losers, only the dead and dying. In the end it is just another wasteful wasted war!

Look at the Palestinian question. Look at Ireland. Did anybody win those wars? I think not.