Or at least thats the impression I’m getting based on the Bush administration’s behavior over the past few years; quite nicely punctuated by their stupendously egregious tactical maneuvers as of late.

Lets start from the beginning…christening this whole conflict a ”war on terror”. How utterly absurd, thats like calling WWII “war on blitzkrieg” or the Vietnam war “war on guerillaism”. Terrorism is a combatative tactic employed universally by militants throughout the years, including the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka and the IRA, does this “war on terror” pertain to their extinction as well?

Some might call my critique a mundane issue of somantics, but its more than that. This war should have been called something like the “war on global jihad” or “war on Islamism”. Instead our supposedly conservative savant president took the politically-correct route and called it something its not. He then went on to say “Islam is innately a religion of peace”, which as any Qur’anic scholar could attest its not, at least entirely. From the beginning Bush should have been honest with the American public and informed them of the true magnitude of the situation we are facing; a growing suicidal doomsday enclave of Islam that borrows directly from Qur’anic suras and can be measured up to 30 percent of the global Muslim population.

This threat transcends just the mere presence of al-Qaida; it also includes such entities as Hamas, Hizbollah, Mehdi Army, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps., Muslim Brotherhood, and Jamaat i-Islami to name the more prominent ones. If, as the free and civil Western world we ever want to be free again, we need to expel these fascists off the face of the Earth; this will be a long and tiring struggle, but we must persevere and we will prevail.

He would  have then gone on to confirm that most Muslims are not jihadis because the aspects of the Qur’an that teach such sentiment have been abandoned for the last few centuries by more modern Islamic scholars, but not all. We should distinguish between cultural Muslims and jihadists, strongly encourage peaceful Muslims to stand up against violence, and have absolutely zero tolerance for appeasement of Islamic extremism.

But he didn’t say anything remotely like that, he took the much easier, sophomoric and wholly innacurate route. And now, 6 years later, the vast majority of Americans are still blissfully unaware of the true nature of the situation. Most people are hopelessly unware of the very real, very emanant threat of Islamic terror this country facing, even further permeated by the detainment of the six would-be terrorists in New Jersey today.

If theres one thing Bush should be attacked for doing, its for not taking the threat of Islamism seriously enough, quite frankly. First you had that Dubai Ports World fiasco, essentially handing financial and security dealings of one of the premier ports of the nation through a terror sponsorship buffer state.

Then you have Halliburton, whether you like them or not a company crucial in Iraqi reconstruction efforts and other endeavours in the  war effort migrating its HQ to Dubai; a collective cry of anguish should have been heard from the administation but never was.

Most recently we have the astonishing spectacle of Condolezza Rice actually taking the side of the flagrantly Islamist Turkish government over the secular opposition of the populous, in the name of “democracy”. Did the Pahlavi episode teach you imbeciles nothing? If civic primacy is the ultimate imperative of neoconservative foreign policy, democratic elections shouldn’t take precedent over secular leadership. At this point even an unelected Mubarak is better than elected Abdullah Gul. This conflict shouldn’t be about spreading democracy, at first anyway. This should be about expelling the jihadists and obliterating their squalid ideology from existence; democracy with naturally arise from the ashes.

This all makes perfect sense after a whole 5 seconds of reflection on the matter, so why the hell isn’t the Bush clan getting it? Its like they took a step in the right direction but just stopped listening to everyone and fell into some sort of myopic fantasy world. If this war fails part of the blame will definitely rest on the astounding obliviousness  of this administration.

And why wouldn’t he be? Its ostensibly a carefully planned out framework for geopolitical collapse in the region, handing Iraq to the jihadists on a bloody platter. In his new video Zawahiri mocks the pull-out legistlation, likening it to a whimpering dog retreating with its tail between its legs; he professes that his only regret is that he won’t be able to kill more Americans in Iraq afterwards.

Wow, so now the Democrats have sunk so abysmally low into the gutter that their feeble little excuse for a bill is being ridiculed by the bedouins we’re trying to dispel; this ought to be an act of treason.

And you wonder why its always the liberals who have to affirm their purported patriotism after every other flagrantly anti-American statement they make? “Lets cut funding to our troops, leave prematurely and willfully allow Iraqi violence to fester to the point that it will become yet another Islamist state. Essentially our bill is a bureucratic mandate of terrorism sponsorship….but you need not worry! We’re good patriotic Americans!”

Yeah, when your entire political platform can be rendered down to that, you’d have to keep reminding people you’re actually Americans and not embedded mujihideen moles; lest you want to attract serious investigation.

Oh Democrats, even Zawahiri can see you as the spineless morons you really are…

This first day of May marks the onset of mass immigration activism protests throughout the nation, with tremultuous discourse from both ends of the spectrum.

Theres never really been a diverse conflagation of views on the immigration debate. You’re either a hard-line San Francisco leftist “sticking it to the man” supporting little sanctuary population pockets within urban microcosms, or you’re a hard-line Bill O’Reilly/Lou Dobbs right-winger, arguing for the establishment of a border fence, en masse illegal immigrant purges, and likewise. Frankly, the complexities of such a socio-economic configuration are far too multi-faceted for such simple characterizations.

I view this issue through an objective libertarian-moralist perspective. On a purely fiscal conservative level, the fact of the matter is that illegal immigrants are like injecting steroids directly into the blood vessels of the economy. Contrary to the alarmist right-wing myths of “immigrants depleting our jobs”, they are by in large performing the tasks no one else would possibly do; not to mention paying taxes. Empirically speaking illegal immigration has never inhibited economic growth, a fact strangely overlooked by many conservatives.

Furthermore, lets not forget that these are some damn hard-working folks. Right-wingers are always espousing the ideal Horacio Algiers rugged-individualist ideal, isn’t the anecdote of Pablo Perez mowing lawns for less than minimum wage his entire life just to earn his children the chance to be successful in this great promised land the epitomy of the American dream? You really want to send armed forces to rupture this fragile family balance? Seperating parents from their children just because of arcane legistlation? Come on, don’t tell me the whole “moral conservative” thing was a ruse.

That being said, I most certainly don’t want the perpetuation of the status quo, a stance taken by many liberals. I don’t want illegal immigrant sanctuary enclaves, and I certainly don’t want this anti-American assimilation sentiment that a lot of activists have been spewing. My parents came to America from Iran after the Revolution, they speak English fluently and are very successful. Don’t you tell me that Mexicans don’t have to learn English; it’s a de facto mandate in American schools for students to learn Spanish, our Hispanic counterparts ought to return the favor. The anthem should never ben sung in any language but English.

And another thing, I realize national pride is healthy and all, but now that you’re in America, stop waving Mexican flags all the time, stop speaking in Spanish in public venues, stop pretending like America is some sort of Mexican protectorate. You’re in America, live it, learn it, love it. If not, the inevitable conclusion would be the spread of mass Mexican urban ghettos, the last thing we need at this point.

So whats to be done? I actually favor Bush and McCain’s guest-worker program propositions, very fair, very reasonable, would certainly dissolve the problem, not to mention mend the very serious security implications of retaining this clearly dysfunctional border system.. Unfortunately they were drowned out by the ideologues on both sides. Heres hoping conservatives and liberals begin to wisen up and remember what America is all about.