The fallout from terrorism

I know that not all Muslims are terrorists; however credit for a lot of terrorist acts has been claimed by Muslim terrorist organizations and many Muslim clerics have publicly encouraged their followers to commit acts of terrorism.

Now I fear that our allies in the war on terrorism are turning to being motivated by fear. Spain has been a good ally in Iraq but now it looks like the elections in Spain were largely influenced by the terrorist attacks on Spanish civilians.

France has been an ally since the founding of our nation but now has declined to help us in Iraq. I think more because of fear of their large Muslim population than because of the profit to be made from the former Iraqi government. There is also an anti-Semitic factor in France. The terrorists would very much like to control our voting in the same manner by attacks on our people and preventing freedom from prevailing in Iraq.

Germany also is partly motivated by the fear of terrorists and anti-Semitism in addition to the financial ties to the former Iraqi government.

Will England be influenced by fear during their next elections? England replaced the appeaser Chamberlain with Churchill for WWII. Those were days that tried men’s souls. I hope this time they will chose a brave leader who will not be influenced by the large Muslim presence in England.

Now, will we in the USA be fearful and vote for an appeaser or will we take the sensible course and vote for the one who will fight for freedom?

The bad side of fear is usually that slow-reasoned type which, in many cases, is not very reasonable. After the dropping of the first A-bombs at the end of WWII we were free from war. The USSR acquired some, then most of the world went into this kind of fear. It caused the USA to enter into a treaty with the USSR which was called MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction certainly was mad (crazy). We lived under this treaty of fear for half a century.

After making the correct decision to drop the A-bombs, Truman decided to back off from finishing the war in Korea over General MacArthur’s objections. We are still living with the results of that decision. Now the North Koreans have us living in fear. It was the Republic of China and the USSR. It was also the Republic of China and the USSR that kept us from winning the war in Vietnam because of the fear our leaders had.

We have never been able to win either at war or at peace when operating under a pallor of fear. History will repeat itself.

Duane Stevens

Simi Valley