In December 2004 I published a column in which I attempted to outline the five greatest blunders America has ever made.\u00a0 These were, in order of importance:<\/p>\n
1. The introduction of human slavery in the rural South. \u00a0Short of a repetition of the genocide that occurred in the Soviet Union, in Nazi Germany, in Southeast Asia, and in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th<\/sup> century, the enslavement of human beings is the most despicable act that one human being could possibly commit against another.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 The decision by many\u00a0American parents to heed the child-rearing advice of Dr. Benjamin Spock,\u00a0leading to the creation of generations of spoiled, self-indulgent, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cry-babies. \u00a0As more and more\u00a0parents read his books and adhered to his teachings, parenting became more\u00a0and more a relationship in which young parents viewed their offspring, not\u00a0as the single most solemn responsibility that God puts before us, but as\u00a0\u201ctoys for adults.\u201d<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 The establishment of the mandatory retirement age at 65.\u00a0 Since the mandatory retirement age was not adjusted upward as life expectancy increased from sixty-five to seventy-five, and beyond, we have created an entire subculture of capable, competent retirees who produce little, if anything, but who consume at the same rate as active workers.\u00a0 It is the greatest waste of human energy, talent, and productivity in all of recorded history.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 The systematic elimination\u00a0of sidewalks in our residential neighborhoods.\u00a0 On a visit to relatives in a Houston\u00a0suburb we were amazed to see the number of children playing in the\u00a0streets, along with numbers of people strolling up and down the sidewalks\u00a0after dinner, stopping to visit with friends and neighbors up and down the\u00a0block, creating what we call a \u201ccommunity,\u201d in the finest sense of the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 word.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 The establishment of Toys\u00a0\u2018R Us stores across the country.\u00a0\u00a0When archeologists probe the Earth thousands of years from now,\u00a0what they will find just beneath the surface may be a great mystery to\u00a0them.\u00a0 What, they will wonder, was\u00a0the purpose of all of those non-biodegradable red, yellow, and blue\u00a0plastic objects that were buried in landfills in the 20th<\/sup> and\u00a021st<\/sup> centuries?\u00a0 Toys \u2018R\u00a0Us stores are the principal purveyors of this ugliness.<\/p>\n Needless to say, whatever is in second, third, fourth, and fifth place cannot be compared to the horror of human slavery.\u00a0 But now, in the early years of the twentieth century, Toys \u2018R Us will be forced out of the top five greatest blunders because those of us in western cultures are in the process of making a mistake that history will prove ranks well with our number one mistake.\u00a0 I refer, of course, to the unthinking approach to the problem represented by Islamic jihad and the universal fixation on military force as a means of responding to its horrors.<\/p>\n In Washington, in London, in Paris, and around the world, all of officialdom, the self-professed \u201cexperts\u201d on the terrorist threat, as well as nearly every media outlet, are totally ignoring the true nature of the worldwide confrontation with radical Islam.\u00a0 We hear little else but discussions of whether it will be necessary to send American ground troops to root out and subdue ISIS and other murderous Islamic thugs, or if Obama will be successful in his attempt to convince other Muslim nations that they should do all the fighting and dying for us.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the debate is centered on the wrong question.\u00a0 To spend a lot of time debating the question of how we might defeat radical Islam with military forces is a complete waste of time.\u00a0 All of the western cultures combined, engaged in a full scale fight-to-the-death struggle on the field of battle, can never defeat Islam.\u00a0 Only a fool would believe that it is possible to do so.<\/p>\n Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder has let it be known that, as his last official act at the Department of Justice, he will implement a new policy adding to long-standing bans on racial and ethnic profiling, extending them, for the first time, to investigations involving national security.\u00a0 According to a Fox News story, \u201cThe finishing touches are still being put on the policy change, but the final version is expected to scale back the authority federal agencies received in the aftermath of the 9\/11 terror attacks, including the monitoring of some religious groups and surveillance on mosques without evidence of suspected criminal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n This comes, unbelievably, in the same week that the Pentagon has warned members of the U.S. military that ISIS has used social media to call upon supporters to find the home addresses of family members in the U.S., go to their homes, and kill their wives, children, and parents.<\/p>\n Ishaq:587 of the Koran, tells Muslims, \u201cOur onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair.\u00a0 We shall fight as long as we live.\u00a0 We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge.\u00a0 We will fight not caring whom we meet.\u00a0 We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains.\u00a0 We have mutilated every opponent.\u00a0 We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam.\u00a0 We will fight until our religion is established.\u00a0 And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>Any questions Mr. Holder?\u00a0 Mr. Obama?<\/p>\n Western apologists for Islam regularly tell us that only about five percent of the world\u2019s Muslims are radicalized.\u00a0 That may be true, but what they fail to explain is that five percent of the world\u2019s Muslims amounts to roughly seventy million suicide bombers and beheading specialists, none of whom have an ounce of respect for human life\u2026 not even their own.\u00a0 The way they see things, it is an honor to be martyred, to die in the service of Allah\u2026 to say nothing of the promised 72 virgins who await them in \u201cparadise.\u201d\u00a0 For each radical Islamist we kill on the field of battle, we can expect at least two of the 1.33 billion un-radicalized \u201cmoderate\u201d Muslims to take their place.\u00a0 It is a war of attrition that western cultures can\u2019t possibly win. To think otherwise is foolhardy.<\/p>\n What we do not hear in the debate over what to do about radical Islam is the only practical and potentially successful approach to the problem.\u00a0 In other words, if we can never defeat them on foreign battlefields with military force, then, along with bombing them into the middle of the next century on their home soil, our only alternative is to take whatever steps are necessary to keep them from attacking and killing us here on our home soil.<\/p>\n To do that, we must first dispense with political correctness.\u00a0 Instead, we should remain focused on what the Founders intended when they wrote the 1st<\/sup> Amendment.\u00a0 In recent columns I have suggested that, as a statement of national policy, we should tailor President Dwight Eisenhower\u2019s signing statement as he signed the Communist Control Act of 1954 into law.\u00a0 The national policy statement would read:\u00a0 The American people are determined to eliminate from their midst organizations which, purporting to be \u2018religious,\u2019 in the accepted sense of that term, are conspirators dedicated to the destruction of our form of government by force and violence\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n This should be followed by an act of Congress patterned after Section 2 of the Communist Control Act.\u00a0 It would read, \u201cThe Congress hereby finds and declares that Islam, although purportedly a religious sect, is in fact an instrumentality of a foreign conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.\u00a0 It constitutes an authoritarian dictatorship within a republic, demanding for itself the rights and privileges accorded to individuals of other religious denominations, but denying to all others the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution\u2026\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n \u201cAs a segment of the U.S. population, Islam is relatively small, numerically, and gives scant indication of its capacity ever to attain its ends by lawful means.\u00a0 The peril inherent in the existence of Islam arises not from its numbers, but from its failure to acknowledge any limitation as to the nature of its activities, and its dedication to the proposition that the present system of government of the United States ultimately must be brought to ruin by any available means, including resort to force and violence.\u00a0 Holding that doctrine, its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear and present danger to the security of the United States.\u00a0 It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of Islam, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their revolutionary services.\u00a0 Therefore, the organization known as Islam shall be outlawed in the United States.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Since radical Islam cannot be defeated on the field of battle, our only alternative is to find creative ways to live, rent-free, inside the heads of Muslims around the world\u2026 to find creative ways of baiting Muslims into killing each other, and not us.\u00a0 For example, as I have suggested in previous columns, our government should not hesitate to engage in the elaborate hoax as an instrument of war.\u00a0 We might begin by having the best special effects technicians in Hollywood utilize three-dimensional holograph imaging to stage a \u201csecond coming\u201d of Mohammed, in which he would instruct Imams and other radical Islamists that jihad is an unforgivable sin that would prevent its participants from entering paradise.<\/p>\n In addition, and contrary to Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s edict condemning religious profiling, we should prohibit the construction of any new mosques within our borders, while developing a domestic intelligence capability with tentacles that reach deeply into every existing mosque and Islamic cultural organization in the country.\u00a0 If we cannot defeat radical Islam on the field of battle we are left with only one alternative.\u00a0 We must take whatever steps are necessary to protect ourselves and our culture on our home soil\u2026 political correctness be damned.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In December 2004 I published a column in which I attempted to outline the five greatest blunders America has ever made.\u00a0 These were, in order of importance: 1. The introduction of human slavery in the rural South. \u00a0Short of a … Continue reading