Metafilter is obviously
all abuzz as the election draws near. They are basically apoplectic as are most Kerry leaning outlets as
they try and reconcile the reality that people just don’t share their worldview.
This baffles them as they are so damn sure they are right.

I finally wound up posting to it…

posted by soulhuntre at
12:10
PM EST on October 13

“Is there no concept of the fact that by kicking over the hornet’s nest in
the manner that we have, we have created more evil terrorists, we have in fact
set up the largest terrorism training camp on the planet, almost exclusively at
the U.S. taxpayers’ expense?”

So just to be clear… a bunch of people who have made the centerpiece of
their religion (for all intents) our destruction are now mad at us that we
aren’t going to just let them kill us anymore?

This is supposed to be a revelation? A surprise? Something that should upset
me? You know, it usually does make the people who hate you mad when you stop
laying down and start fighting back.

Oh no, please, please don’t let the people who work daily for my destruction
get really upset at me… they might try and hurt me.

That training camp thing? They are welcome to work on how to fight us – and
we are more than capable of working on how to fight back.

This is an ideological fight to the finish… their concept of the world and
how it should be versus ours. The only way to do that is going to be to unravel
the culture that holds sway in the Middle East – that means bringing with it
democracy and driving those who thrive on hate away from those who want to
be free. That takes time.

I am not at all surprised that terrorists from inside and outside Iraq are
fighting us with everything they have. If they drive us from Iraq they win a
reprieve – it will be decades before another nation has the courage to face the
threat head on. If we win in Iraq it is the beginning of the unraveling of their
whole world.