It is a shame that any journalist, writer, observer or politician must be very careful when beginning any serious debate on how this anti-Jihadist war is to be conducted, but we do need the debate and we do need to put all the facts on the table.
None of us want to offend our Muslim friends. Therefore, when we express our views as a free people it is always with the thought in mind that regardless of who is offended it is our duty to express our honest opinion. This is particularly so when our governments and so many of our fellow citizens are struggling to grasp the significance of the turmoil being created by increasing numbers of Muslim Jihadists waging war against the West.
The Enemy is at the Gates and within the Gates
It is a waste of time to eternally debate either the causes of this conflict or the question of who is right and who is wrong. The fact is that primarily Christian ethic countries and their citizens are being violently murdered from within and without by Muslim religious Jihadist fanatics.
Moderate Muslim countries also have to cope with these Jihadist fanatics but their targets are primarily the countries of the West and particularly the USA. It is bad enough that we have had to send troops overseas to attack their bases and cope with the guerilla-type war being waged against us but now we find they have seriously penetrated our own home countries and live among us.
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Dick Field, editor of Blanco’s Blog, is the former editor of the Voice of Canadian Committees and the Montgomery Tavern Society, Dick Field is a World War II veteran, who served in combat with the Royal Canadian Artillery, Second Division, 4th Field Regiment in Belgium, Holland and Germany as a 19-year-old gunner and forward observation signaller working with the infantry. Field also spent six months in the occupation army in Northern Germany and after the war became a commissioned officer in the Armoured Corps, spending a further six years in the Reserves.
