Perception of Reality

“ONLY ONE POSSIBLE WINNER”

by OPOVV, ©2014

(Feb. 5, 2014) — Ask any cop and an “eyewitness” is, at best, maybe a block or so from the ballpark. A home run would be video, clear head shot, wide-angle view (color, Dolby-enhanced stereophonic sound) of the crime being committed, maybe even a film (IMAX), with notes (script), of the crime being planned, the route driven, what was ingested, the whole enchilada. What you see is not, believe me, what others may see, even if you watch the same thing at the same time on television.

You and I see a few psychotic Muslim (redundant) individuals flying airliners into the Twin Towers and think “What’s the darn point of it all?” while others see the exact same thing and see Islamic brave heroes committing jihad against “The Great Satan,” whatever that means.

We see television commercials of some of our really unlucky returning troops who lost their sight, a leg, an arm or a multiple of everything and we feel sad for those poor people who went overseas with the best intentions of helping America get rid of her enemy, only to be hampered by a set of Rules of Engagement that clearly favors the foe and, by design, puts our troops in double jeopardy.

But did you know that those exact same commercials are a major recruitment tool for our enemy? That the Jihadists show them off, proclaiming how strong and powerful they are against the American Infidel? That every time those pictures of our disabled military are shown, shouts of “Allahu Akbar!” are heard wherever Muslims live? That they laugh and shout with glee when they see the Twin Towers collapse, still, to this day, because, as T. E. Lawrence wrote in his book, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” the patience of the Arab (sic) Muslim is infinite.

Those of us who were brought up in Western Civilization view time as a vertical line, with the past below (or behind) us and the future above (or in front) of us. The Islamic time sense, on the other hand, views time as a flat continuum, no past or future as we think, but a very tangible influence on the present. September 11, 2001, to a Muslim, was yesterday. To you and me, 9-11 was over a decade ago.

The mistakes we make in the worldwide war against the onslaught of an Islamic Caliphate have immediate and far-reaching consequences. This war is not an “adventure” but a very real vehicle to the end, of which there can be only one possible winner.  There is no second place in this battle: either we win, or we die.

So the next time you see one of those television commercials about one of our amputees, someone else is seeing the same thing you are and cheering, maybe even recruiting someone who’ll board a bus and blow your children to “Kingdom Come.”

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