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Perhaps the leaders of Al Qaeda have a political aim. It’s very fuzzy, and if we met their demands there would be new ones. The suicide bombers must be very confused at best. Can’t we at least agree that they are criminally insane?

They want us to declare War on them. It makes them important. It gives them dignity. It gives them supporters, recruits, slots an Al Jezeera. It gives them purpose and glory enough to blow themselves up in some cases.

The United States, after all, is not engaged in a twilight struggle against a concept, but against Al Qaeda.

For more, see:

“The Global War on Error”

All that said, I still hate to give them the title terrorists. Prefer Death Squads or Killer Maggots. Works for me.

Since words have meaning, lets be clear: it’s a war. The Islamists have told us so, and delivered on their threats more than a few times. I say, take ‘em at their words and let’s don’t hold back: they must be completely and violently defeated.

The truth is that we are at war and will be for a long time, and any spineless politician who says otherwise — and votes otherwise — doesn’t deserve to be re-elected to office.

Their main goal in the near future should be to budget more monies toward fighting terrorism, strenghtening the borders and reforming our intellience, not passing highway bills filled with pork.

We’re probably doomed to destruction thanks to these selfish, wimpy political fools — and thanks also to selfish, wimpy voters who want to ignore the obvious, even after 9/11 and 7/7.

Do we want to consider ourselves at-war forever?

We are at war in Afghanistana and Iraq.

The question is whether we want to regard ourselves as being at-war everywhere in the world, against anyone who engages in terrorism, forever.

I take it this is because they have finally realized that if they are fighting a war on terror, the enemy is four guys in a gym in Leeds. It isn’t going to take very long for people to realize that a) you don’t actually need to pay the Pentagon $400 billion a year if that is the problem and b) whoever is in charge of such a war isn’t actually doing a very good job at stopping the bombs from going off.

The Dauphin can say whatever he wants because apparently he enjoys living in a fantasy world where dinosaur bones were put in the ground as a test our of Christian faith. But if the actual grownups beneath him are shrinking away calling this godawful response to 9/11 a war, the sea-change has already occurred.

Make no mistake about it, the GOP is looking forward to the 2006 and 2008 elections with an increasing amount of queasiness in its collective belly. “Another five years of war” won’t win them any votes at the ballot box this time around, and they know it…

The problem is that they are NOT criminals, they are terrorists.

Their only goal is the destruction of our form of government; so that they can impose their own form … Sharia.

Terrorists are political creatures.

Criminals do not have politics as their goal; criminals have their own enrichment as their goal.

That’s why we put criminals in the gaol; and we put terrorists in “heaven.”

They are criminals. Criminals belong in gaol, not in heaven with all those virgins.