| "American nuclear forces on global alert" is what CBS | | | | community tolerated Islamic worship and Mosques for |
| dished out as this author awoke on that chilly | | | | many years. This should give pause to all Americans |
| October morning in 1973 while attending Madison | | | | about the enemy we face. Extreme elements within |
| College in Virginia. This was Nixon's response to | | | | Islam have declared a "holy war" against America |
| Brezhnev's announcing the potential deployment of | | | | bent on its absolute destruction. Little attention was |
| Soviet airborne troops into the midst of the Yom | | | | given to French President Jacques Chirac when he |
| Kippur War in an effort to stop Israel's advance | | | | publicly announced last year that France would use |
| toward Cairo. It was both amazing and amusing | | | | nukes if attacked by Muslim extremists. Since |
| watching the Soviet's quickly back tract in the face | | | | terrorists raid in small numbers and their cells are |
| of stern American resolve. To put things in a more | | | | dispersed within a country, Chirac wasn't talking |
| contemporary setting is to beg the question --- | | | | about using nukes on his own soil. Neither was he |
| should the United States consider the use of nuclear | | | | going to detonate one of those big firecrackers in |
| weapons to deter potential attacks by Muslim | | | | the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. His intention was |
| extremists. This politically incorrect notion must be | | | | very clear --- and "aimed" by way of the Middle East. |
| given weight in light of the worldwide jihad that has | | | | Despite France's failed historic reliance on |
| been declared against the U.S. by Muslim terrorists | | | | "appeasement diplomacy", their one great show of |
| and the nation-states that support and hide them. It | | | | strength on this issue has thus far saved them from |
| is nothing short of the 4th Crusade and it is taking on | | | | intimidation and attack. Some say that using such |
| religious overtones in the form of a global holy war | | | | powerful and destructive weapons in retaliation of a |
| financed by these terrorist nations. It is fair to say | | | | Muslim extremist attack is unfair and inhumane |
| that national dogma promulgated by an Islamic | | | | because the American government can't seem to |
| theocracy is more rigid and less flexible than what is | | | | exactly link the attacks to any particular nation. That |
| accepted within a pluralist democracy. This is not to | | | | leaves America exposed to even further |
| suggest that all Muslims are extremists and practice | | | | molestations. Political correctness should not hold back |
| Islam by the strictest rules of the Koran. Many are | | | | the United States from projecting and potentially |
| fine citizens of democratic nations who enjoy the | | | | using its nuclear arsenal to protect its citizens and |
| fruits and prosperity of hard work within western | | | | global interests from the very terrorist nations that |
| cultures while practicing Islam. And some would argue | | | | seek our downfall by whatever means they can |
| that Muslim extremists are no more radical than the | | | | employ. Surfacing a Trident submarine in the Persian |
| extreme Christian Right in this country. One thing is | | | | Gulf with hatches open may send a clear message to |
| for sure --- Islamic culture in general is more inflexible | | | | our foes, that unlike the prior Crusades, we intend to |
| that Western culture by a county mile. This was | | | | win this one. As Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, and |
| demonstrated recently when the Muslim world | | | | Reagan proved to our enemies at the time, "power |
| refused to accept the Pope's repeated apologies | | | | achieved is power perceived." |
| concerning his medieval reference to Allah being an | | | | James Silvester is a small biz author and consultant. |
| evil force. And several years ago when Islamic | | | | He has written 4 best selling entrepreneurial books |
| factions took over town councils in two Italian villages | | | | with a 5th on the way,and has appeared on many |
| through the electoral process --- they called for the | | | | radio and TV shows including MSNBC. The books |
| immediate shutdown of all Christian churches within | | | | have forewords contributed by the Virginia Governor |
| those municipalities even though the local Christian | | | | and a U.S. Senator. |