SMELL THE DEATH OF YOUR LIFESTYLE

This is a MUST READ for all North Americans and Europeans to understand it is about our survival.

By Raymond S. Kraft with editing and comments by Alan Peters

This is a reality check and we had better wake up, or we shall be destroyed.

Too often we look at events of today as just that and not from the historical perspective and the lesson we should have learned.

This lesson opens sixty-three years ago, when Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials.

At that time the U.S. was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war. Just as so many want nothing to do with Iraq and the war on terror.

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, - the 9/11 of that time - and in outrage a patriotic Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which had not yet attacked us. (To note a liberal anti-war slogan for leaving Iraq).

It was a dicey thing. We had few allies. France was not an ally then (as it is NOT one today either), as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers.

Germany was certainly not an ally (almost one today), as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe.

Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling most of Asia.

Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe.

(Without being invaded Canada has become a haven for Islamists bent on the same mission and Mexico does little to prevent terrorists living there and reaching our inner sanctums).

America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia and Russia. That was about it.

All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was already under the Nazi heel.

America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after WWI and throughout the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks.

(Nor did America have the liberal leftists and Democrats acting as a fifth column as they do today and impeding chances to win and trying to ensure a loss as they do today for partisan political reasons devoid of national best interests - aided by a very left wing Main Stream Media - MSM)

And a huge chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler.

Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they could. (Just as Islamist would, too).

Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of staggering shipping losses and the near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain, saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later.

He first turned his attention to Russia, at a time when England was on the verge of collapse, in the late summer of 1940.

Ironically, Russia (now selfishy compounding the Islamist threat to the world by opposing action against it) saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight fortwo years, until the U.S. got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.

Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a MILLION soldiers. (Anti-war activists would not prevent such losses - only increase them by crippling our efforts to fight the enemy).

Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire wareffort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis could possibly have won the war (and German would likely be the official language of Europe and perhaps America today).

All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in history. There is a very dangerous minority (in numbers at least if not in devoted support) in Islam that either has, or wants and may soon have, the ability to deliver nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.

The Islamo-fascist Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs - they believe that their Islam, a radically conservative (old-fashioned by 1,300 years) form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world. (One Iranian ayatollah recently stated that the Islamic Regime of Iran is the only legitimate nation in the whole world).

And that all who do not bow to the Islamic will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra.

There is also a "mindset" civil war raging in the MiddleEast - for the most part - not only a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not known yet which will win - the Inquisitors or the Reformationists.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the delicately balanced and fragile US, European, and Asian economies.

The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC - not an OPEC dominated by the better educated, more rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis or Hojatieh proponents of apoccalypse and Armageddon like Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad.

You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.

If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions and live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Saudi Wahhabi or Iranian Hojatieh movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements.

We have to do it somewhere. And we can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing........in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, (though the terrorists are moving into those arenas very quickly) where we are doing two important things.

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam had been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades.

Saddam himself is a terrorist. Saddam himself was a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for the deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.

(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flashpoint, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad people, and the ones we get there, we won't have to get here on our shores.

We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the MiddleEast for as long as it is needed.

World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China.

It was a war for fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 -- a 17-year war - and was followed by another decade of U.S. occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again ... thus a 27 year war.

World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP - adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars.

WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is roughly what 9/11 cost New York.

It has also cost about 2,200 American lives,which is roughly 2/3 of the 3,000 lives that the Jihad snuffed out in one day on 9/11.

But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have been unimaginably greater - a world dominated by German and Japanese Nazism.

A repeat performance is taking place daily with the Islamic movements - Nazis in Kaffiyas - yet we appease them as we appeased HItler - without learning our lesson. So many in America no longer remembering or even hearing about Nazis in school. Except perhaps when reading about the Aryan Nation racist groups or to use as a derogatory remark about a strong teacher.

Americans have a short attention span, conditioned by 30 - second sound bites, 60 minute TV shows, and 2 hour movies in which everything comes out okay.

The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain and sometimes bloody and ugly. Always has been and probably always will be. The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is.

It will not go away if we ignore it and bring our troops home or appease it or talk to it or try to negotiate with it. Islam is not reacting to us, it is intent on destroying us regardless what we do or say. Even if we capitulate we stand the chance of being lashed, tortured or killed under the Islamic Sharia laws, so peace cannot be found in that either.

If the U.S. can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East.

Throughout the history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending war. And now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless somebody prevents them.

We have four options:

1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which they already have in Iran and more to come as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is).

3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the MiddleEast, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.

4. Or, we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe. It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.

If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia laws, an America that resembles Iran today - whippings and imprisonment for dress code violations, for even accidentally touching the hand of someone of the opposite sex who is not married to you or a very close relative, for listening to music. Your present DISBELIEF is what is bringing this to reality your children will face!

Parts of Canada have already accepted clerics dispensing Sharia law to Canadian Moselms instead of the judicial system, so this is not as far fetched as you may think. It's here in a still mild form.

The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win. Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win.

The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.

Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.

The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany.

World War II began (in practise) in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan.

World War II resulted in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million people, depending on which estimates you accept.

The U.S. has taken more than 2,000 KIA in Iraq. The U.S. took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi imperialism.

In WWII the US averaged 2,000 KIA every week - for four years. To prevent you and your children having to be Nazi fascists and speak German.

Most of the individual battles of WWII lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.

But the stakes are at least as high ... A world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms ... or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Sunni Wahhabi or Iranian Shiite Hojatieh movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).

It's difficult to understand why the American left does not grasp this instead of simply disliking and mindlessly, thoughlessly opposing war and death even if the survival of a decent world depends on it.

They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis. "Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here inAmerica, where it's safe becasue of the Wars we fought to ensure their freedoms.

Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the most? But where they would be arrested at best and most probably killed without a trial.

The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.

Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy.

Please consider passing along copies of this article to students in high school, college and university as it contains information about the American past that is very meaningful today - history about America that very likely is completely unknown by them (and their instructors, too). (And many of those elected or hired into government positions, who come from this same pool of candidates).

By being denied the facts of our history, they are at a decided disadvantage when it comes to reasoningand thinking through the issues of today.

They are prime targets for misinformation campaigns beamed at enlisting them in causes and beliefs that are special interest agenda driven.

Just as were the 65% of Iran's population - now much to their regret - all under the age of 25-years - when Jimmy Carter unleashed disinformation against the late Shah to open the way for him to bring ayatollah Khomeini and the virulent laws that came with him to power in 1979.

Do not let it happen to America. It has already started to happen in Europe and Canada.