The enemies we face

While it is tempting to pick apart President Obama’ s speech on Afghanistan for partisan purposes, the nature of the enemy we face must not be forgotten. As such, we who are critics of President Obama must rise beyond partisan politics and support the President of the United States as he stands for the national security of the United States. Indeed, those on the right and left who criticize the commitment to win in Afghanistan are simply ignorant of the enemies we face.

The enemies we face are extremists. They twist the religious teachings of Islam to inspire people to see the perverted reward of having sex with virgins as a reward for killing innocent people. They believe that women are property. They believe that those with diverse views are to be killed, not tolerated. Their fervor is so strong that normal political considerations cannot be applied. The terrorists want to kill us, not deal us. They will use negotiations to buy time to find a way to kill us.

If you have any doubts about that, consider the history we have lived through. There are the attacks of September 11th. The warped sense of calling of those attackers led them to party in strip bars but supposedly purify themselves by killing innocent people. Then, there are people, like the innocent truck driver from a few years ago, who was barbarically murdered by terrorists. So many are like that truck driver, they only tried to work to make a living, but in the name of a false God, they were brutally murdered.

But, we can not underestimate the power of those twisted beliefs. So many in Southwest Asia embrace the perversion of Islam as their way to find some self worth and meaning. Their embracement is strong and they are committed to take down the evils of the United States, which, to them, revolves upon our sense of tolerance and the rights we give women.

Those fanatics work tirelessly to have control of a nuclear weapon. If Afghanistan is left to become a failed state again, it will become a safe harbor for those who would make Pakistan failed state. Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Failure in southwest Asia could lead to Islamic terrorists having control over nuclear weapons. Make no mistake; the United States would become a target of those nuclear weapons, regardless of what the United States does. It is simply naïve of those on the right and left to believe that if the United States withdraws immediately from southwest Asia that the terrorists who hate us so will just leave us alone.

Those people want to kill us. They hate everything about us. From time to time, an issue comes up that is bigger than politics. Winning in Afghanistan is one those issues. The President is right to commit to victory. We conservatives owe the President and our military our support. If they fail, the consequences to the national security of the United States will go far beyond any political setback. Islamic terrorism is the fight for freedom of our time. Those terrorists stand against everything we believe in, and they cannot be negotiated with. Dealing with those terrorist in southwest Asia is not a conservative or liberal thing, it is an American thing. It is a duty we must meet to keep America and the American ideals safe.