Civilization is threaten.  Terrorist have not just attacked Paris, they have waged war on civilization as we know it.  However this is not new.  Yes we should pray for Paris, but we should pray for 224 Russian civilians killed by ISIS  in the Sinai airline bombing last month, we should pray for 43 Lebanese citizens, yes most of them Muslim, that were killed by ISIS bombers in Beirut this week, we should pray for the millions of Syrians, Afghanis and Libyans fleeing ISIS, Taliban, and Al Quad-a terror as they migrate to Europe, and we should pray for the Kenyan students, 147 killed by Al Shabab in April of this year.  So many terrorist attacks by militant muslims, yet we shrug about until it hits Western Europe or the USA.

World War 3 started a while ago, now that it has come to Europe, maybe we’ll notice.  Its sad to me that so many others die, so many others have to flee, before we realize that we are at war.  If they are not Americans, or Western Europeans, we just don’t pay much attention.  We talk about our national interest, we talk about containment and security.  We worry about “boots-on-the-ground” as if we can somehow do the minimum we must and still provide security.  There is no security, and we bring it on ourselves when we don’t worry and care, and fight for all the innocents that represent civilization.  Our civilization is not just for Western Europeans and Americans.  Civilization and the right to live without fear of the brutality of terror should be the interest of all of us, and we should care and pray for every foothold of civilization everywhere.  We should protect the innocent and the tolerant everywhere.   Its time we realize that we cannot ignore this assault on civilization and hope to contain it to Africa and the Middle East.  We need to see this as a world war not against other nations, not against other religions or race, its a war against the brutal terrorists that seek to force at the edge of a sword all others to bow to their power, and their version of militant islam.

We in the United States must lead, we must show others that we value civilization and civilized people everywhere, and help them rise to beat back the terrorists and replace them with a revitalized civilization and civility.   If we don’t then we cannot win and we will watch many others suffer and we will suffer as well as civilization dies.  It will die not as one fell swoop, civilization will die by many million cuts if we fail to act.  We will not win in one fell swoop either, we will be fighting this war for generations.  Its sad but there are too many anti-civilization groups that would like to drive the world back to the middle-ages, all of them must be eradicated.  We cannot rest until they have no place left to hide.

Mike