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#1 Dan Simmons: The Century War

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The Century War

An interesting little piece that he has written on the nature of the battle with Islam. The picture he paints is a bit scary.

Though, I think that the first use of a NBC weapon in terror attack that an Islamic entity claims credit for derails the entire process. A pan-eurasian Caliphate also gives us a true 'Evil Empire' to refocus on.
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I have to say, I don't think he is listening. The Netherlands, Germany and other nations have already slammed their doors shut to futher muslim imgrentation, within the Netherlands specially there is alot of anger. Men have been killed for daring to oppose Islam, Parliment Members are forced to into hiding, but there is not enough strength to overthrow the republic of Holland there, only enough to anger it and cause it to turn on those who have. Britian, France and Italy have begun throwing out muslim minsters who preach hatred and war on the west. The time of tolerance for this behavior is nearing an end and good riddence.

And to be blunt, the US has over 10,000 nuclear weapons, if we are forced to fight upon the very Soil of the North American continent, then we will use them and reduce entire streches of the world into ash clogged wasteland. We have the weapons to do so, it will be done rather than suffer invaders on continental soil for the first time since the British.

South America is perhaps the most Christian continent in terms of demographics in the world. The idea of Rome under Islamic rule will stir the scream of Crusade. Russia is not going to sit still surrounded by Islamic fanatics either.

Don't get me wrong, I do believe this to be a war. It is a war of ideas. It is a war of visions of how the future should be. On one hand we have the vision of the West, a free world, where men and women vote for their leaders freely, able to chose their leaders, their professions and even their gods without restraint. On the other hand is the future offered by Osama Bin Lauden, by the Muslim Brotherhood, by Iran, By HAMAS. It is global aparthid on the basis of faith. It is their dream, as surely has our dream is a nightmare to them. This war is not solely a military one, prehaps not even mainly a military one. It is fought on the plane of the minds of billions of human beings across the planet.

I do not believe at this time that every muslim is the enemy. I do believe however that the enemy is muslim. It is prehaps a sublte distinction but an imporent one to me.
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I think he is mainly frustrated at a what he sees as a lack of action and a loss of will on our part.

But you're right, there are many things that stand in the way of a world lead by wahhabist Muslims.

Edit: whabist to wahhabist. Google spell check failed me.
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Well said frigid.
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So... you guys agree with this story? Or... not?
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The coming war is the one that has existed always and ever.

It is ignorance against knowledge. Freedom against control.

As the obvious enemy lurks in distant deserts, we have snakes in our own little garden of Eden. They're weakening(Should I post the article about the Christian Coalition dying?), but they're here. Don't turn your back on them for a second.

The more ground freedom and knowledge take, the more the forces of ignorance and hate will scream and call for war. Will it come to physical blows? Could be. But it will not end by such.
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SirNitram wrote:(Should I post the article about the Christian Coalition dying?)
Please do. I'll get the beer ready for the party.
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Mr. Simmons has made a follow up post to his April story. It's an interesting read that expands greatly on what he wrote in April.
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Other forum-posters were incensed that I could not see the true evil stalking the world today—the United States of America, with the mendacious madman George W. Bush at the center of this expansionist evil empire, dispatching the U.S. Marine Corps to steal oil from innocent nations, subjugate them, and to slaughter babies there.

There’s nothing new in this response. It is a very small (although very common) mental box and it seems to satisfy its occupants’ needs for superiority, condescension, simplification, demonization, and conspiracy. It does interest me that the two people posting the most hyperbolic condemnations of the United States on this forum—explanations that it is actual genocide that the imperialist America and its lying, conniving, murderous president (and, by association, all other Americans) are promulgating and executing—are from Germany and Serbia. The irony here speaks for itself and will be passed by without further comment.
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