Oil free investing is terror free investing.

Frank Gaffney Jr’s “terror free investing“ (11-13-07) initiative would be a wonderful for defeating terrorists or bankrupting Iran’s genocidal leaders if it weren’t for three simple factors -- anyone of which could obliterate any chance of producing real results.

First, it doesn’t require a large or even a moderate sum of money to damage our increasingly energy dependent and excessively high-tech interdependent society or our profoundly armed and courageous military. Computer viruses or a weaponized Ebola virus are infinitely cheaper to develop than an nuclear bomb, and these micro WMDs get cheaper to make every day while the means to deliver them improves faster than spread of free trade in our lawless free enterprise world. According to an accountant (former Air Force officer) at DefenseTech.com (http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003798.html ) “one Humvee lost to an IED costs the military $2.1 million ($115,000 for Humvee and four personnel at $500,000)”. An insurgent producd video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxzUl9iahsM) states an “IED cost $32” as it successfully obliterates M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle worth approximately $3.2 million not including the warriors inside. Mr. Gaffney obviously didn’t do the math.

Second, even if we could successfully stop all legal transactions that might deliver financing to mass murdering religious fanatics they won’t hesitate using illegal means to acquire what they need. The sale of illegal drugs, counterfeit products, or untaxed cigarettes can yield billions of U.S. dollars with virtually no overhead.

But last and most significant is a legal and plentiful source of funding that we could, but will not stop, because of our persistent decades long addiction. Iran has no shortage of oil and we have no amount of self discipline or wisdom. And, making matters even worse, every time Mr. Gaffney and his war minded friends threaten Iran, Iran’s oil profits rise as fast as the cost of oil.

Perhaps Mr. Gaffney would do better for our nation if he spent his limited resources and intellect pushing for an oil free energy source instead of a useless ‘missile defense’ or an unrealistic “terror free investment” scheme.

Should Islam rule the world?

Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa Lappen mislead the Washington Times readers by selectively pinpointing recent historical realities that they believe lead up to the increasingly lethal “global jihadist movement.” (Egyptian Roots of Hatred, 7-6-07)

They accurately identified the “mentality deranged Australian Christian fundamentalist” who “tried to set fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem” as the spark leading to the “Saudi” establishment of the Organization of the Islamic Conference “in 1969 in Jeddah”. They go on to accurately identify ”petrodollars” as the predominant source of money “spawning every Islamic terrorist group operating today”. Ehrenfeld and Lappen also usefully quote the Muslim Brotherhood’s “motto” of “God is our purpose, the Profit our Leader, the Qur’an our constitution, jihad our way and dying for God our supreme objective,”

But then Ehrenfeld and Lappen try to blend these facts together and suggest that the creation of Israel and Israeli policy over the last 50 years had nothing to do with the “reason for the decades-long regional violence”. Ignoring the multitude of western errors that resulted in the repression, death and suffering of hundreds of millions of Muslims virtually ignores the real “roots” behind the “genesis of the Muslim Brotherhood”.

I’m sure there are members of the MB who want to become suicide bombers and smash “Western Civilization” to replace it “with Islam which will dominate the world” but similar sweeping statements are also made by select fundamentalist Christian leaders and faithful free market capitalist authorities.

Believing these two columnists statement that the “goal” of the Muslim Brotherhood is to “kill as many infidels” as possible and that negotiating with the MB is futile… the only logical solution appears to be an accelerated ‘war’ against them. Thus, killing them first with pre-emptive strikes that will also, go without saying, unfortunately kill other innocent Muslim bystanders.

This current and failed strategy against the real and growing threat of terrorism only feeds the jihadist marketing scheme that Bin Ladin and other radicals use to recruit their mass murdering minions. Since the unwarranted lethal US invasion and military occupation of the Muslim state of Iraq terrorist attacks around the world have soared nearly a hundred fold, and that doesn’t include attacks against US solders in Iraq.

Waging war against all radical Muslims only validates their self proclaimed “warrior” status while increasing their lethal ranks. Accelerating our kinetic war against ‘them’ in general will also bring the various competing radical Muslim groups closer together. More devastating acts of terrorism against the “lawless” infidels will be justified as they maintain their Qur’anic “constitution” while we abandon our US Constitution to root them out.

Ehrenfeld and Lappen correctly understand the magnitude of the terrorism threat but they don’t seem to understand that war is the abandonment of the only thing that can defeat them – the global “rule of Law”. It appears Ehrenfeld and Lappen want to wage a war against all radical Muslims. With no real means of sorting out the radical Muslims from the potentially radical Muslims it will appear from the Muslim perspective as an act of genocide. And, that the predominantly Judeo-Christian “western civilization” is against them and is…perhaps the more “mentality deranged” actor in this increasingly violent world…And, thus Islamic domination becomes the most reasonable path to peace. And, we all know that Islam is the religion of peace.

There are radical Muslims who believe that war is NOT the answer. We will need them to defeat the lethally minded radical Muslims. Creating and enforcing a global rule of law where Muslims have the same rights and protections as Christians and Jews is the only sane path to peace. War is the path to Armageddon. Some believe that’s what the Christian Bible says.