IRAQ – The (Jack) Kennedy Plan

Once upon a time in America, one President rose to address a nation faced with global enemies, and firmly asserted the American creed:

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe – in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty!”

The President was John F. Kennedy – a Democrat – a figure now nearly revered in American history.

The global enemy of that day were revolutionary

Freedom of Religion …

One of the initial difficult hurdles I certainly faced personally, when first approaching the issue of Islam vs Radical Islam, was the tendency shared by many in the West who want to look at the issue of religions as a simple matter of moral relativity – that all faiths and religions are somehow “created equal”, and that it’s all simply an intellectual difference in cultural and historical perspectives.

That would be fine, if the cultures involved were committed to debating their differences in a more or less civil manner, resulting in at worst a headache – rather than having one’s head separated from one’s shoulders,