PLEASE READ! THIS IS SUCH A THOUGHT-PROVOKING ARTICLE, I THINK IT IS WELL WORTH
A READ. THE LETTER FROM A DAD TO HIS SONS MAY RING TRUER THAN FOR THE REST OF US
SHELTERED AMERICANS. Believe this, If Japan and Germany had won WW2 we would not
be living as we are now.


THE WORLD SITUATION - A LETTER TO MY SONS
This was written by a retired attorney, to his sons, May 19, 2004.

Dear Tom, Kevin, Kirby and Ted,

As your father, I believe I owe it to you to share some thoughts on the present
world situation. We have over the years discussed a lot of important things,
like going to college, jobs and so forth. But this really takes precedence over
any of those discussions. I hope this might give you a longer term perspective
that fewer and fewer of my generation are left to speak to. To be sure you
understand that this is not politically flavored, I will tell you that since
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led us through pre and WWII (1933 - 1945) up to and
including our present President, I have without exception, supported our
presidents on all matters of international conflict. This would include just
naming a few in addition to President Roosevelt - WWII: President Truman -
Korean War 1950; President Kennedy - Bay of Pigs (1961); President Kennedy -
Vietnam (1961); [1] eight presidents (5 Republican & 4 Democrat) during the cold
war (1945 - 1991); President Clinton's strikes on Bosnia (1995) and
on Iraq (1998). [2] So be sure you read this as completely non-political or
otherwise you will miss the point.



Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know
it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII). The
deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of
us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what
losing really means.



First, let's examine a few basics:



1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11th, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is
concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks
on us: Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983; Beirut,
Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983; Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York
1988; First New York World Trade Center attack 1993; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Khobar Towers Military complex 1996; Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998; Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998; Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000; New York World
Trade Center 2001; Pentagon 2001. (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001
there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide). [3]



2. Why were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during
the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We
cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations
by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or
Carter.



4. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.



5. What is the Muslim population of the World?
25%



6. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the
predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the
dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no
difference. You either went along with the administration or you were
eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for
political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests).
(">http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm). Thus, almost the same number of
Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the 6 million holocaust Jews who were
killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish
atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no
hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or
of taking over the world - German, Christian or any others. Same with the Muslim
terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way - their own
people or the Spanish, French or anyone else..
[5] The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection
to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they
are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are
fanatically bent on doing - by their own pronouncements - killing all of us
infidels. I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice
was shut up or die?



6. So who are we at war with?
There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim
terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this
conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly
recognize and articulate who you are fighting.



So with that background, now to the two major questions:
1. Can we lose this war?
2. What does losing really mean?



If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions.



We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major
reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the
second question - What does losing mean? It would appear that a great many of us
think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and
going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as
one can get. What losing really means is:



We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not
subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not
just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an
increasing series of attacks against us over the past 18 years. The plan was
clearly to terrorist attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them.



We would of course have no future support from other nations for fear of
reprisals and for the reason that they would see we are impotent and cannot help
them.



They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be
increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter
whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain
did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to
withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do, will be done. Spain is
finished.



The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see
the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they
can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too
late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast. See the attached
article on the French condition by Tom Segel. [6]



If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all
vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were
threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else?
The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war and therefore are completely
committed to winning at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise
committed to winning at any cost.



Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we
recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our
thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to
win.



So, how can we lose the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by
imploding. That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and
their purpose and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort.
If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be
divided, there is no way that we can win.



Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and
death seriousness of this situation.



- President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although
all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40
years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like
we are taking this thing seriously? This is war. For the duration we are going
to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had
better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most
certainly lose all of them permanently. And don't worry that it is a slippery
slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII and immediately restored
them after the victory and in fact added many more since then. Do I blame
President Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely
assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil
rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of
those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.



- Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration
that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add
that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't
recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to
the enemy that we are divided and weakening, it concerns our friends, and it
does great damage to our cause.



- Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media
regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war perhaps exemplifies best what I
am saying. We have recently had an issue involving the treatment of a few Muslim
prisoners of war by a small group of our military police. These are the type
prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off
buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise
murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein. And just a
few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own
people for the same reason. They are also the same type enemy fighters who
recently were burning Americans and dragging their charred corpses through the
streets of Iraq. And still more recently the same type enemy that was and is
providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of an
American prisoner they held. Compare this with some of our press and
politicians who for several days have thought and talked about nothing else but
the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners - not burning them, not dragging
their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating"
them. Can this be for real? The politicians and pundits have even talked of
impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack
of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are
fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of
losing this war, nothing can. To bring our country to a virtual political
standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle
as Rome burned - totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world.
Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I
say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are
disloyal. It simply means that they absolutely oblivious to the magnitude
of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been
pushing us for many years. Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to
kill all infidels. That translates into all non-Muslims - not just in the United
States, but throughout the world. We are the last bastion of defense.



- We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant'. That charge is
valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so
good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who
attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything
bad in the world. We can't. If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it
will not survive, and no other free country in the World will survive if we are
defeated. And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow
freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the
Press, equal rights for anyone - let alone everyone, equal status or any status
for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to
the good of the World.



This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will
be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire.
If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read.



If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take
over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the
Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little on the
established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves over
what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep
them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?



Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external
military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct
piece by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away to
those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it
to you or even to themselves, once they are in power. They have universally
shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each
other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing
from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?



I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united,
there is no way that we can lose. I believe that after the election, the
factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in
and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about. Do
whatever you can to preserve it.



Love,



Dad





Debbie Conner
PTSD Alliance
Volunteer Co-ordinator
www.ptsd-alliance.org

DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional, i.e., psychologist, psychiatrist, or other
professional in the psychiatric field. The advice given is from personal
experiences and is not professional counseling.







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