More than Just GWOT

Former SantorumBlogger Tim Chapman writes at Human Events...

The instigators all have one thing in common: they hate America and western values.

Gingrich’s arguments were bolstered on Thursday by the third-ranking Senate Republican. Pennsylvania’s Rick Santorum delivered a major policy speech in Washington at the National Press Club. Santorum told attendees that “the biggest issue facing our children’s future is a war. Not, as so many describe it, the War on Terror. Not the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. But the world war, which at its heart is just like the previous three global struggles.”

Santorum went on to point out that the United States fought World War I and World War II because we had to. Those wars were “imposed on us, not chosen by us -- we’re either winning or losing, because there was no way out.” Similarly, today’s conflict is one in which enemies like Hezbollah, al Qaeda and the militant fundamentalist Islamists will never back down. Like Stalin, Lenin and Hitler, our enemies today are bent on the annihilation of their foes: us.

History demands that we take the rise of Islamic fascism very seriously. “If we have learned anything from the twentieth century, it should be this lesson,” Santorum said. “When leaders say they are prepared to kill millions of people to achieve their goals, we must take them at their word. Particularly in this case, when the enemy sees dying for their cause as a desired objective as opposed to a tragic consequence.”

Santorum’s speech, which was delivered to capacity crowd, was a desperate plea for America to wake up. Though Islamic fascists have made no bones about their intent to destroy Israel and America, many in the U.S. are having a difficult time grasping that basic fact. The Pennsylvanian argued that if we really understood the nature of this conflict we would not be complaining about government monitoring of terrorist finances or phone calls. Instead “we’d be screaming and hollering that these programs are being compromised” by a press corps that’s fundamentally failing American interests.