If the new Iraqi assembly passes a constitution which establishes this barbaric form of Islamic radicalism as the law of the land, George Bush should announce that he will immediately take one of two actions: 1. Invade with really massive force and destroy all vestiges of Islamic radicalism or 2. Immediately withdraw all America troops and all American financial support. And he should make it abundantly clear that we will actively support any faction in Iraq who opposes this tyrannical law and who instead supports freedom for all Iraqi citizens. In short, we should foment revolution if necessary to prevent another Iran from being formed. We have paid far too high a price to now allow the terrorists to prevail.
This has been our stand from the first day we said Saddam's horrible regime had to go and we shouldn't be shy about holding out civilization and democracy as the only outcome we will support now. When we defeated the imperial Japanese, and forced their "Devine" emperor to tell his people their future depended on adopting a secular constitution, they didn't like it much. In fact many, many of the Japanese fundamentalists were very offended that the Americans were dictating the form of government they had to adopt. American leaders at the time knew that our safety depended on reforming Japan completely. They could no longer allow the religion of "ultra nationalism" to linger in Tokyo or we most certainly would have to fight them again and again. We couldn't tolerate that kind of "freedom." We had to be tough.
This generation of American leaders would do well to adopt a similar attitude. Muslim extremism, as embodied in Shari'a law, cannot be allowed to exist anywhere. One of the side effects of this law, besides allowing the brutal domination and deprivation of rights for women, is the fomenting of anti-American, anti-Jewish hatred and the resultant terrorist activities associated with it. If we allow Iraq to become a fundamentalist Islamic state, it will most certainly devolve into a haven for terrorists who will attack and kill Americans. We should wake up to the stark reality that we can't leave the fate of civilization up to people who saw other people's heads off in the name of religion. Too much is at stake, including all of our lives. It's either got to be true democracy, where all people including women have full rights, or scorched earth. Their choice. We must have the resolve to make it so.
