There are several problems with the current War on Terrorism.  One of them, by the terrorists’ design, is our difficulty in identifying the enemy.  This could lead weak people to conclude that we are merely “shadow boxing”.  And, some of those people with weak convictions will then condemn people with strong convictions.  That leads to a degradation of morale — thus playing into the terrorists’ hands.

Another built-in problem is our inability to predict the enemy’s target.  Until it happened, almost nobody had conceived of the attacks we saw on “9-11”.  Almost as difficult as determining where terrorists will attack is determining when they will attack.  Experienced soldiers will tell you that the hardest part of warfare is quietly waiting for the enemy’s next attack.

Then, of course, is the question of “why” they attack.  America’s “mainstream” news media are straining to pretend that there is no religious element in this war.  The same was true ten years ago, when the Liar-In-Chief got our country embroiled in a three-sided religious war in the Balkans.  Americans were subjected to a constant overdose of the phrase “ethnic cleansing”, with no explanation of how three groups of people — all from the same ethnic stock — could be capable of such a “cleansing”.  Yes, you read correctly.  The Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians are all considered South Slavs.  The differences between the three groups are religious.  The Serbs are Orthodox Christians, the Croats are Roman Catholic Christians, and the Bosnians are Muslims.  Of course, Bill Clinton managed to get American troops into the war to help the only side that is not Christian.  But, does that actually surprise anyone?

Regardless of the views of the Left (whether from Hollywood or elsewhere), the history of the United States of America is that of a predominantly Christian nation.  And, regardless of the complacency of the “mainstream” news media, that is also precisely how the Islamist terrorists view America.  That is why, at the terrorist training camps, the targets have crosses on them.  They hate us because, as a Christian nation, America is firmly allied with Israel.  And, despite the bombast and nitwittery of network TV news, the terrorists are at war with us because their god is at war with our God.  And — perhaps better than some “average” citizens in this country — the radical Islamists understand the connection between true Christianity and true Judaism.  Thus, the radical Islamists viewed their attack upon the World Trade Center as equally an attack upon the large Jewish community in New York City, and an attack upon the larger Christian nation.

But, notably important is where the terrorists did not attack.

In the practice of law, there is a doctrine that says “silence equals acquiescence”.  The doctrine is the inverse of the saying “actions speak louder than words”.  In essence, this doctrine says that “inaction speaks as loudly as action”.  By their choice of where not to attack, the terrorists spoke volumes about their motives.

The Islamist hijackers of “9-11” flew right past the United Nations headquarters, but did not attack it.  Both of America’s wars in the Persian Gulf region were fought — ostensibly — because of our need to enforce UN resolutions.  So, why didn’t the terrorists attack the United Nations?  Simple:  because the UN shares their ideology.  (Note that, in this official UN position paper, there is no mention at all of the Mizrahi.)

Most conservative Americans agree that the United Nations is — at its core — profoundly Socialist in nature.  As such, it is both anti-American and anti-God.  What many well-meaning Americans don’t realize is that many Islamic countries, and the Muslim world that they seek to create, are also Socialist in nature.  Over a thousand years before Hitler, the Muslims forced Jews to wear a yellow patch on their clothing.  There are many other parallels.  Like the Fascists and the Communists, both the Muslims and the United Nations share an ultimate goal:  world domination.  Because of their shared Socialist ideologies, the terrorists did not target their UN enablers.

Tom Kovach