It's simple to understand what the truth is: they are evil.  Do good men, just men, honest men indiscriminately slaughter anyone, scores of just anyone who is there, hundreds of them, in the daylight, in the night?  Do men with good intentions kill the helpless, torture them and cut off limbs and heads.  Isn't this a sign of evil, evil minds, evil forces, to be like animals with no regard for the innocent lives lost?  Do good men, high-minded men, philosophical men, spiritual men act like this? 

If we have a civil society, civilized nations, and supposedly a civil world organization with great principles spelled out for us, then how can we tolerate this, allow it, and how can we ignore it?

We, here in the United States, think only  in terms of 9/11, and the memory of that day is fast fading from our minds.  But this evil has been going on for many years.  It has to do with bombing American Embassies in 1998, where hundreds of innocent people were killed or horribly mutilated, and killing U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983.  But, let us forget ourselves, let us forget our losses, our own brave men.  Let us think of the air liner over Lockerbie.  Let us think of the train bombing in Spain.  Let us think of the blasts in England.  Or in Palestine, a night club in Germany, assassinations in Lebanon, bus bombings in Israel, car bombs in Pakistan, in India, in Ceylon and in too many other places too numerous to mention.

Do we want to live in a depraved society, where such murderers are allowed to continue to live among us, while they mutilate thousands with powerful bombs, people who only a split second before were walking with their families or going to work or buying groceries, or simply enjoying a walk?  Do we abandon others because we think ourselves safe?  Do we walk away from the carnage, yet believe in a world community?  Do we condemn our President because he does not act fast enough in a flood to get people off of roof-tops or save starving children in the Sahara, yet allow this monstrous evil-doer, whoever it is and whatever his thinking, to continue to plague nations around the world with such inhumane deeds?

Yes, we have those Liberals who only talk about health-plans and suffering, but ignore this evil shadow-world that moves around us and among us, waiting for the opportunity to strike, as they did in England last week.  We ignore  these evil people from the dark side, we don't care about the good people in Iraq, twenty six million of them, nor the thirty-six million in Afghanistan, the plight and the suffering that is theirs on a daily basis.  Yes, we talk about helping people, but we don't know what it is like to take a bus down-town and think, will a bomber board this bus, or to walk along the side streets and hope that that blue car fifty feet ahead is not loaded with explosives and nails, or to be at home and see on TV that another bomb went off in downtown Baghdad near your husband's office and wait for him to come home that night. 

Today, July 4th, 2007, six hundred soldiers midst the horror of war, serving in Iraq, reenlisted, not merely to be involved in war and killing, but because they know and love the Iraqi people, and they want to drive out these evil brigands who live solely to torture, to murder, and to enslave those whom they would conquer through terror, then to impose a regime that destroys all vestiges of freedom from those who wish desperately to live free. 

If there are five thousand or ten thousand or even twenty thousand members of this dark world, then when the Americans withdraw and allow them to begin their tortures and killings in Iraq, hundreds of them, dedicated to their cause, will say, "Where can we go next?  Ahhh, to the Great Satan."  They will slip across our borders, take jobs, work, and wait,  Always waiting for us to relax.  In the meantime they scheme and lay out detailed plans for where and when they will strike.

Then, which building will be next, and where?  Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland or again,in  New York?  There were 3,000 killed the last time.  Perhaps it will six or ten thousand the next time. Or, that car driving down Broadway in New York, or in the Garment District, say thirty or forty people at a time.  Terror; it is their weapon of choice.  Is this how we want to live? Fearful? 

Whether we do or not, that's how they, the evil ones, will make us live.

Or, we have a choice, should we face them in Iraq and defeat them, defeat evil vicious vermin, then come home?  I’m going to view Michael Yon’s pictures again; they show me what is happening in Iraq, and I know that without a solid victory, it could happen here too.

Will we flee like cowards one day and live with a stain upon our flag?  Will we abandon twenty six million people who wish to get on with their lives and live in peace, without fear?