If you think this isn’t a religious war, listen to the enemy

There are those who would say the war against terrorism has no religious aspects to it, that it is made religious only by virtue of President Bush’s “short-sighted, personal evangelical beliefs.”\

Horse hockey.

If anyone doubts there is a deep religious aspect to the War on Terror, just listen to the words of the enemy.

In his most recent video release – the first in about three years – terrorist leader Osama bin-Laden had this to say:

There are two solutions to stopping it. One is from our side, and it is to escalate the fighting and killing against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out. The second solution is from your side. I invite you to embrace Islam. It will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a consequence, because as soon as the warmongering owners of the major corporations realize that you have lost confidence in your democratic system and have begun to look for an alternative, and this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to please you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam.”

I doubt anyone but Democrats are going to suddenly convert to Islam, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see one of the Dem contenders, like Dennis Kucinich at least attempt it to draw attention to his never-was candidacy.

Remember, those were not RC airplanes that slammed through the World Trade Center buildings. They were the real thing. The enemy is serious about winning this war, even if the Democrats are not.

People trust military more than politicians

I’ve always agreed with Mark Twain that there are three levels of falsehoods: lies, damn lies and statistics. Polls are a universal proof of this; if we went by polls, George W. Bush never would have been nominated, let alone elected, and we’d always elect a Democrat in the White House, just like the Aaron Sorkin-created drama, NBC’s now-defunct The Left Wing (known to most as the West Wing) told us life should be.

But sometimes the media screws up and the truth slips out, as in the recent CBS News-New York Times poll that said America trusts its military leaders like General Patraeus to navigate the US through the clean-up and stabilization operations in Iraq, far more than it trusts any politicians, be they in the White House, the US House, the Senate, or running to be the next resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

At last, some common sense from the media? Nah… that’s too much to hope for. In the meantime, maybe it’s time to offer Hillary a Florida vacation… before the hurricane season is over!