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); - eight presidents (5 Republican & 4 Democrat) during
the cold war (1945 - 1991); President Clinton's strikes on Bosnia (1995)
and on Iraq (1998).

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).

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.

3. 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?

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.

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 whom 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.

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 had 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 are
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

[a] By the way on Vietnam, the emotions are still so high that it is
really not possible to discuss it. However, I think President Kennedy
was correct. He felt there was a communist threat from China, Russia
and North Vietnam to take over that whole area. Also, remember that we
were in a "cold war" with Russia. I frankly think Kennedy's plan
worked and kept that total communist control out - but try telling that
to anyone now. It just isn't politically correct to say so.
Historians will answer this after cool-headed research, when the people
closest to it are all gone.

[b] As you know, I am a strong President Bush supporter and will vote
for him. However, if Senator Kerry is elected, I will fully support him
on all matters of international conflict, just as I have supported all
presidents in the past.

[c] "I don't think the Army or any branch of service runs any type of
war any more. It's done by senators and congressmen. There are too
many civilians involved. Returning Iraq veteran, Sgt. 1st Class Greg
Klees as quoted in the Cedar Rapids, IA Gazette on May 13, 2004.

[d] There are 64 Muslim countries. This does not count countries like
Spain that are controlled by the Muslim terrorists.