The only thing worse than the whining of subversives, seditionists, and traitors about the treatment of Iraqi detainees and al-Qaeda prisoners is the hand-wringing that we’ve got coming from various weak-kneed and limp-wristed commentators on the right who express their pathetic fears that America has lost its “moral credibility” as a result of a few pictures of activities no worse than those carried out by many high school football teams.

Our enemies in this war are savages and their deaths do nothing but make America safer and bring joy to the heart of the Lord and of every decent man alive. To mourn for them or worry about their treatment is the height of folly. They are sub-human filth, to be disposed of as we see fit. More deadly than a rodent, the enemy is equally foul. As in dealing with rats, the only way to defeat this enemy is to exterminate it. Total victory in this war will be achieved with the death or neutralization of each and every single individual who believes in Radical Islam, supports it, wages war on its behalf, or sympathizes with it in any way. The ideology of our enemies is a disease of the mind, an evil and Satanic creed which much be wiped from the very face of this Earth.

Oh, it’s alright to be mad about what happened at Abu Ghraib: if it is the case that the soldiers there engaged in bizarre, sado-masochistic abuse simply for their own pleasure then those soldiers need to be severely punished. Not because of the “rights” of the Iraqi detainees, virtually all of whom were caught while engaged in acts of resistance against the United States, but because such perversions disgrace the uniform which they wear and are conducive to the breakdown of discipline in the Armed Forces.

That’s the real story at Abu Ghraib: a unit was allowed to spin out of control for the sake of political correctness. The Commander of the Prison Brigade in question happened to be a woman and, for that reason, the Army was reluctant to remove her for incompetence. As a result, all discipline broke down and the men and women under her command began to behave like modern high school students.

Look at Private Lynndie England, who has managed to come home from Iraq six months pregnant. Does she appear to have been under proper command? She claims she was “just following orders.” What nonsense. No one in their right mind would select such a girl to be used in the breaking down of prisoners.

It’s gut check time here folks. This is a very little incident in a very big war. This doesn’t matter. Or, at the least, it shouldn’t. A few soldiers under a piss-poor General started behaving like children and the internal processes of the Army are dealing with it. End of story. Or, at least, it would have been if it weren’t for the traitors at CBS.

The beheading of Nick Berg ought to bring things back into focus for everyone. Our enemies, who lately were outraged that a few of their friends were apparently made to prance about in women’s underwear and scared by frightening Dogs, apparently think that it’s perfectly acceptable and normal to kidnap an innocent civilian and decapitate him for the sport of it. The video is then passed on to Islamo-fascists the world over who view it with glee. These people use this stuff for recruiting. Their propaganda videos are filled with it. We’re up against the kind of people who think that the beheading of a defenseless civilian is great.

Even more telling as to the nature of the crisis was the reaction of Nick Berg’s father, Michael Berg. While admitting that his son was, in fact, a supporter of the Bush Administration and the invasion of Iraq, Michael immediately sought to use the opportunity of his son’s death to blame the President.

I don’t know which is sicker: that Islamists the world over are getting off on watching the decapitation of an innocent man or that the father of the same man thinks that the best way to honor his son is by reciting Democratic talking points. That a father, fully aware of his son’s views, would use the occasion of the death of said son to advance a cause which his son opposed comes across to me as absolutely disgusting.

This whole sordid affair has exposed more than the evil of Islam, it has also exposed the sickness of the modern left. A left which thinks that funerals are excellent venues for stump speeches and that the dead are to be used as props for political theatre. It isn’t just this. Look back at the Nightline fuss a few weeks back or the controversy over the fact that President Bush declines to attend the funerals of dead soldiers. Does anyone sincerely believe that the left actually cares about those who have been lost? Does a single person think that they think of either the name-reading or the funeral kafuffle as anything more than a political weapon with which to wound the President?

How sick. They who dishonor the dead by attacking the cause for which they died in the name of those who died for that cause are practicing an evil form of anti-American nihilism and cynicism which has infected modern politics. It is the slap disguised as the affectionate pat. They don’t “honor” the dead by their insincere tributes, they spit on their graves and soil the cause for which they gave their Earthly lives.

Those who truly honor the dead as those who defend the cause for which they fought and died. Make no mistake about it: they who died did so in defense of their country and its people.

We are engaged in a war against a monstrous enemy, one whose ability to kill is limited only by its resources. They kill without mercy or distinction. They randomly murder the Moslems in whose defense they claim to be fighting.

This war may seem endless, but someday it will end. The “exit strategy” and “endgame” and obvious and easily definable: the war ends either when our enemies cease fighting or when they are all dead (and therefore cease fighting on account of that incapacity). If we just keep on killing them, eventually we will reach the number that constitutes “enough.” They can’t go on fighting forever. Even the Japanese, raised to worship the divine Emperor and believe that the conquest of Asia was the destiny of the Yamato race, eventually gave up. The number we will have to kill before the radical Moslem reaches the point of surrender is probably closer to the millions than the thousands, but it is somewhere out there. That’s our “exit strategy.”

That is why we were right to go into Iraq and why we must go on fighting. Those who have attempted to decouple this war from the larger War on Terrorism are fools. Whatever Casus Belli was provided by Saddam’s regime cannot be separated from the broader and overarching reason for war: the need to move forward in the wider war.

Yes, it’s nice to have Saddam removed from power. Not only did he brutally oppress his own people, but he was also a loose cannon who could easily have caused a great deal of trouble at some later point in the war. Moreover, so long as Saddam remained in power it was impossible for the United States to put convincing pressure on Saudi Arabia to crack down on terror. It is not, in my opinion, a coincidence that senior Saudi figures associated with al-Qaeda began dying at about the same time as the invasion of Iraq or that, shortly after that time, al-Qaeda suddenly began launching attacks against the Saudi regime. Those whining that the Saudis are the real enemies are several years out of date. For all of their flaws, the senior members of the House of Saud are not stupid. They know how to play the game. That they are doing so effectively is well-demonstrated by the fact that al-Qaeda is now attacking its former benefactor.

More importantly, the battle of Iraq has opened up another front where al-Qaeda members and other Jihadists can be killed in great numbers. I have no idea how many terrorists have been killed in Iraq but, from fragmentary reports, I’d wager that the number is in the thousands. Every terrorist who is banished to Hell in the sands of Mesopotamia is one unavailable for duty elsewhere.

Better still, those being killed are certain to be some of their most valuable assets. A large percentage of the Jihad-waging and Jihad supporting elite are militarily worthless. This was seen during the Afghan War, when thousands of Moslems waged Jihad against the Soviet Union by the courageous act of firing their AK-47’s into the air at random at various camps near the Pakistani border. For all the talk about the “fierceness” of the average Afghan, it’s worth noting that the average Taliban soldier didn’t even understand the advantages of lying prone during combat. Give this, when our enemies attempt to meet us in open battle, they are massacred- and with good reason.

So, why do I say that we will probably have to kill “millions” to secure victory? Simple: terrorists hide and this makes getting to them difficult and slow. Yet, we cannot afford to be slow. The process must be expedited. To this end, we must make the moral judgement that anyone who assists or associates with a terrorist has, by their actions, secured their own fate. The way to get at the terrorists is by eliminating their support network. This means the destruction of states friendly to terrorism and, in all probability, attacks on the tribes and families of individual terrorists.

Will we kill innocent people in this process? Tragically, we will. Yet it will be their friends and countrymen, not us, who have chosen their fate. Their blood be upon them. In this we must follow the time-honoured principle of Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. Kill them all. God will know his own.

Given the chance, the enemy will hide and wait for an opportune moment to treacherously strike. We cannot wait. We cannot give them the chance. They must be stopped before they can strike.

How are we to do this? Isn’t it obvious? We must do what we have done in Iraq. We must take and hold ground which they cannot yield and then make them bleed in futile attempts to retake it.

“Be careful,” some warn, “you will have twenty years of fighting in Iraq.” I fail to see why this should be considered the worst-case scenario. The resources of our enemies are far more limited than ours. Any that they use for fighting over there they cannot use to strike us over here. A generation of Islamists will charge into Iraq for glory in the fight against the infidel occupiers and their puppet regime. And that same generation will die there.

The best way of protecting America is to force the enemy to fight us overseas. It is the fight in Baghdad that ensures that there will be no future battle in Baltimore. Our forces are steadily killing the enemy and will go on killing it son long as we, those of us at home, maintain strong and stalwart hearts.