Change and a Reminder

As I recall, our president-elect was supposed to be the one to make the rest of the world love the United States again. It seems that Iranians failed to receive that message and are already treating Obama just like they did Bush.

How long is it going to take before people realize that you cannot reason with anyone who wants your nation to be utterly annihilated? This is not a war over resources. It is not a war over land. It is a war of ideas. Militant Islamic states/terrorists cannot be talked out of their hatred. Only the destruction of Israel and the West will placate them.

Israel has tried the peace route for years. They conceded the Gaza Strip after the Yom Kippur War in an effort to placate them. Instead, Hamas has used that gained territory to launch rockets into Israeli civilian areas for years[1][2][3][4][5][6][7], which has inevitably resulted in counter strikes.

We face an enemy who does now want to discuss and reach compromise. Al Qaeda itself says this outright[8]:

To those champions who avowed the truth day and night......
And wrote with their blood and sufferings these phrases...

The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostateregimes does not know Socratic debates...,Platonic ideals..., nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun.

Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and cooperative councils. They are established as they [always] have been
by pen and gun
by word and bullet
by tongue and teeth[9]

This is the enemy. They do not care who is in power. Their goal is to overthrow "godless regimes" and replace them with "Islamic regimes."[10] I do not think the election of Obama will change the stated goal of our enemies, nor the nations known to associate with them. Iran, under Ahmadinejad, will always villify the west. Our enemies will continue to burn our leaders in effigy. I hope Obama will take our enemies at their word. They mean what they say. It is not political speak to them. They are convinced of it. They will continue attempting to destroy us until we destroy them.