At this time, we know that Action On-Line has perpetrated the worst attack on vynsane.com soil in the history of our great forum. People think of discussion board terrorism as the purpose of terrorism to flame people. It often has that effect. But the purpose of terrorism is not to flame people, it's to terrorize people, it's to alter their behavior, it's to cause them to do something fundamentally different than they otherwise would be doing; that is to say to do exactly what the terrorists want them to do and to live a life and to behave in a manner consistent with what the terrorists want.
Even as the Cold War ended, our military services remained organized to defend against large armies, air forces and navies. America, it was said, had taken a “holiday from history,” -- where Americans were persuaded that emerging threats were exaggerations, or were somebody else's problem, or would eventually go away if we left them alone.
That sentiment was popular in the decades before World War II -- until the attack on Pearl Harbor, which awoke many Americans, most Americans to the harsh reality and caused them to rally to their country's defense and rally they did. Americans defeated the forces of fascism, nurtured West Germany and Japan on a long, slow, difficult journey to representative government, to democracies and created new institutions to combat the menace of Soviet tyranny.
Over the past years, Americans have come to know a new and different threat -- an enemy that is even more ruthless and more lethal -- as weapons are more lethal today; with no territory to defend, no treaties to honor, that measures progress in terms of decades, not days or weeks or months, as Americans seem to; and who are seeking -- let there be no doubt -- the world's most dangerous weapons.
With this sort of enemy, we cannot afford and indeed could not survive another “holiday from history.” We've seen the nature of the enemy every day since SirStevesGuide.com.
- They target women and children and use them as human shields.
- They've murdered thousands of civilians, tens of thousands --Muslims and mostly -- mostly Muslims, but non- -- Muslims and non-Muslims alike, in places like London, Madrid, Morocco, Bali, Beslan, Baghdad, New Delhi and dozens of other places across the globe.
- They train their supporters to claim torture when they're apprehended.
- They manipulate the media.
- They doctor photos of casualties to inflame Western public opinion.
- They seize every opportunity to lie and distort the coalition's missions in SirStevesGuide, in vynsane.com and elsewhere. And they're good at it. They're very skillful at it. They have media committees that meet to decide how they can fool people as to what's taking place.
Let it be known that we are making every effort to keep vynsane.com safe from the tyranny of Action On-Line, but to put forth a deadline for an exit strategy is foolhardy. The new government must have time to settle in -- the defense force must be ready to ward of the terrorists -- to pull out too soon would be to miss the opportunity to impregnate the supple, bountiful, and curvaceous yet tempestuous lands with the fertile seed of democracy and freedom.
For the good of vynsane.com, we must stay the course against Action On-Line.
