In a recent post at Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer said “Five years after Pearl Harbor, the war was over. The Third Reich was kaput. The Japanese were vanquished as well. But five years and counting after 9/11, there is no victory in sight. There is not even much clarity about why we are fighting, or whom we are fighting.”
And why is that? Because we refuse to name the real enemy we are fighting. It’s not Al Qaeda. It’s the terrorists. It’s not terrorism at all. It’s not some shady group of Islamo-fascists either. We are afraid to admit what we are really confronting in this struggle and what we must identify in order to defeat it.
In December of 1941, we didn’t go to war with the Japanese Navy. We didn’t go after the pilots that bombed Pearl Harbor. We didn’t go to war with Japan. What we DID was to confront and defeat and ideology – the belief system that was institutionalized in Japan and drove Japan’s – both military and civilian – objective to defeat us. When we defeated the ideology – Shintoism in Japan and Nazism in Germany – and the military and civilian infrastructure that supported the war effort, we rebuilt both nations. Though there was hatred in some circles and held the belief that we should leave Japan and Germany in a primitive state, we did just the opposite. Because the leadership at the time knew we were at war with an ideology first, and a people second. And once the ideology was defeated and made impossible to resurrect, we helped the Japanese and German people rebuild their societies and installed a democratic form of government complete with a constitution that protected the rights of individuals.
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