By Julian Krasta

The intellectual communities all over the world are waiting in an agony of suspense as to whether John McCain or Barack Obama will be elected the next President of the United States. The suspense is rooted in the hope for granite security and the prospect for lasting peace, which could altogether vanish if, in January 2009, the wrong man raises his hand and takes the oath.

Senator McCain is uncomplicated with respect to the leadership and defense of our country. His fearless patriotism was formed and hardened by an irrefutable fact: The American People’s collective resolve coupled with the actions of our awesome military, in their harshest terms, are proof to our enemies – of the past, present and, yes, future – that we play in a bigger and badder league than they could ever dream.

By stark contrast, Obama requires a daily diet of total compliance and idolization. His word salads are a gross national product of cants and fantasies, and is devoted to injecting chaos into the jellied minds of the crowds of people (here and in countries such as Syria) that play into his fantasies. He has successfully accomplished this because his is a cocktail personality, meaning: He senses other people’s vulnerabilities, he reads their personalities, and performs accordingly. It is the classic sign of a sociopath.

Liberals argue that Senator McCain might be too old, too hotheaded, and too off the mark (and some frustrated Republicans and core conservatives chime in with the fear that he is too liberal-minded). In some respects they are all correct – in some respects. There are even those who poke fun at his banal tone. Again, some of their levity is not entirely unjustified. My view of the Senator, which is shared by many, many other conservative advocates, is quite the opposite. To quote an old saying: “Still water runs deep.”

Moreover, John McCain has served our country faithfully as a Navy fighter pilot (a stone-cold truth not even (Ret.) Gen. Wesley Clark can deny or devalue (notwithstanding Clark’s cheap shots to discredit McCain’s leadership qualifications)). He endured horrible physical pain during his imprisonment in Viet Nam. Primarily, he is lock, stock and barrel more transparent than the Democrats’ candidate claims to be because, good, bad or indifferent, Senator McCain has no hidden agendas. Neither does he feign being anything other that what we see.

Barack has an impressive record of political ineptitude: He and his party strive to expand policies such as welfare (to ensure dependence on the government dole by those below the poverty line in order to fortify their votes). Obama opposes privatizing Social Security, which is supported by Senator McCain – a proposition that would be advantageous to taxpayers in that we would be able to invest and manage our benefits.

Obama opposes school vouchers (one means to the end of our children being short-changed in their education). He used the words “ugly and racist” to depict opponents of the 2007 comprehensive illegal immigration bill, yet it is commonplace (and widely accepted by his supporters and conveniently overlooked by the media) when he repeatedly brings into the fray the fact he is black. This comes from the chosen one of the party that went up against the 13^th, 14^th and 15^th Amendments to the Constitution (respectively: abolishing slavery, granting citizenship rights to newly-freed slaves, guaranteeing the right to vote for blacks – Thank you, Larry Elder).

Senator McCain has always been a proponent of nuclear power, and he is calling for no less than 45 nuclear power plants to be built by the year 2030. Barack has said that this might be worth investigating – until he decides to cast his vote in opposition.

Obama possesses a superego and is fully one-dimentional. He has (with the wholesale aid of the liberal mainstream media) caused his supporters, as well as al Qaida and the militant Palestinian group Hamas, to believe that there’s a wizard behind his curtain when, in fact, there is only a brick wall.

Islamist jihadists are determined to dominate this planet, by whatever force necessary, and become our supreme rulers. From the standpoint of their blood-lust adventurism, the very future of the freedoms of the human race has become the issue.

John McCain understands this. Without equivocation, but in peremptory tones, he has said plainly that he is as equally determined to use whatever force is necessary to prevent terrorists from gaining the upper hand and, as President, would not imprudently withdraw our troops from the hot zones.

Obama, on the other hand, is hedonistic with his [politically motivated] litany of “I will end the war” and begin bringing our troops home if he becomes president. This move comes under the heading “Miscalculation and Maladroitness.” It would be as foolish as an impatient homeowner ordering the tent removed from his house before the poisoning process can fully and effectively destroy a vermin infestation “…because the tent is an eyesore.”

This smacks of arrogance and audacity. His myopic presumptions equate to reckless endangerment: gambling with our lives here at home as well as the country we call home to satisfy his aspirations – that is (using another analogy), no less irresponsible as when a parent or guardian leaves a baby or a pet locked in a hot car to go shopping.

Moreover, Obama’s ambition has blinded him to the fact that withdrawing our troops, reducing military spending, and suspending or cancelling defense programs would not only weaken the security of our homeland it would sharply increase domestic unemployment in all related sectors of private, public, and government businesses.

Furthermore, if we lose the strength in numbers of trained military personnel now – or a year or two from now – and our country is attacked again, three to four months would need to pass before capable replacement ground, sea, and air combat troops could be expected to reach required potency and supplant those who had been killed and injured. In that time, we could go beyond the crisis level and face unmitigated disaster because of a lack of trained manpower.

Our enemies could exploit this perceived weakness. They might attack, possibly with lethal chemical weapons, and destroy (but not be limited to) municipal and military communications centers and installations, commercial and military airfield complexes, fire, police and energy stations, water and food supplies, roads and railways, all personnel therein, and every civilian within specific radii of those areas.

John McCain is aware of the foregoing, because he is a long-horn, scarred, intemperate and veteran bull. Faith should be invested in him, in that he would exercise every power vested in him as President to go the distance and cut out the fanatic canker that threatens humanity and prevent such attacks.

Obama is a neophyte. His daydreaming has left him deficient of legislative and leadership experience. With neither to his credit, he wouldn’t be able to stop an asthma attack.

It would therefore come as no surprise to the GOP, conservatives or rational Democrats if, as president, he one day swings open the White House doors, flashes a smile at the beast looming above him (whose entrée into our land he helped engineer), and says:

The United States is hovering closer to the thin edge of the wedge, because too large a percentage of the men and women we voted to represent our best interests – and those who will yet finagle to win our votes – are preoccupied in grudge matches for supremacy within their club quarters.

Elected civil servants mulishly persist in placing their hands on the wrong end of the stick with regard to their responsibilities to the American People. We need to jog their memories about their job function (the salaries of which we pay for):

Specifically, they, at all times, are to acquaint us with the best possible alternatives for how to shelter and maintain our basic human rights and our country’s integrity. If we do not agree, or find fault, with their proposals, we have the right to say no, and to repeat the word “no” pending acceptable answers and/or solutions.

It is common knowledge that, despite their campaign pledges (and the fact that we elected office holders on the basis of those pledges), they invariably present this wry comeback to our inquiries: “I plan to set up a task force to look into the matter” – which is code for “I have no intention of earning my keep.”

Earning their keep requires results, and results would be evidence that they deserve the position for which we elected them. So far, the only proof provided is the majority of those men and women we placed in government positions are all mouth and goiter.

For instance, there is a singular critical matter those elected abjectly refuse to work on and put right: the mounting pressure for America to, once and for all, release itself from its ties to foreign oil. It is far more appealing to members of Congress to stage a mock trial (at taxpayer expense) and drag over the coals American oil executives rather than admit to, and immediately act upon, an obvious way out: the U.S. territory designated ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge).

The crude oil we very badly need is located in abundance within ANWR, in the remotest and uninhabited area, where none of God’s creatures (except mosquitoes) would suffer inconvenience in the exploration and capture of the resource.

A neighbor nation to the south, Brazil, has done this. They tapped into a mother lode oil field approximately 150 miles out at sea, which should help keep them supplied for a significant length of time. I recognize the value of ingenuity in the face of urgency, and am pleased to pass on good wishes to Brazil for taking the necessary steps to ensure their petroleum needs are fulfilled.

In light of Brazil’s achievement, it is lunacy on the part of our elected representatives to mandate that America not exploit every other potential advantage available within our own borders to re-energize our stockpile of fuel.

Meanwhile, the price per gallon to fill our cars’ fuel tanks is rapidly approaching $5.00. This is precisely what Shell Oil’s Chief Executive Officer, John Hofmeister, cautioned the House Committee in late May would come to pass unless and until Congress removes the shackles and allows Big Oil to responsibly explore and drill for oil.

Rather than a constructive debate, an ill-mannered response to Mr. Hofmeister’s statement was delivered by Maxine Waters-(D-CA) in which she attempted to intimidate the CEO, saying the government would socialize [sic] the oil companies. Her clumsy threat was altogether an embarrassment to the office to which she was elected, counterproductive to those proceedings, and an insult to the People’s intelligence.

From Capitol Hill to our largest cities and smallest townships nationwide, scent of power has clouded common sense and sense of duty. Too many of the elected officials we chose to invest with our trust spend their terms in office undermining the laws specifically written to protect citizens. There are also those who, out of idleness, pursue – and needlessly squander taxpayer money on – phantom resolutions to unsubstantiated conundrums, such as the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Act.

Elected officials have wrecked the inner cities with their unaccountability and allowed schools to fall to ruin. As our education systems deteriorate, so goes our children’s literacy.

Fortunately, there are diehard educators out there who are determined to fight fire with fire. They want kids to be – as they should be – our number one priority. Unfortunately, this example is one of few exceptions. Suitably educating our youngsters in secure and healthy environments is no longer the blanket rule.

Politicians hamstring law enforcement agencies (as with the deleterious Special Order 40 in Los Angeles). And when such initiatives crash and burn leaving only scorched earth in their wake, they lay blame on the federal government. While the blame games go on, the record of men, women, teenagers and children killed and injured increases by the second. The cycle is vicious.

Once they assume office, elected officials engage a bizarre 4-stage slant on central issues (e.g., national security precautions, economic stability, health and welfare, education, our country’s independence, protection of our constitutional privileges), which is directly linked to the countless problems we face today:

1.      Nothing is going to happen.

2.      Something might happen but we should do nothing about it.

3.      Maybe we should do something but there’s nothing we can do.

4.      Maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.

Example: It took three U.S. presidents to be assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley) before Congress finally authorized the Secret Service to assume the full-time responsibility of protecting our Commanders in Chief.

This same jumbled attitude pertains to the Senate’s points of view today with respect to the War on Terror. They (primarily the liberals amongst them) continue to be tightfisted in recognizing the positive effects of the Surge. They pay no heed to the Iraqi people’s remarkable endeavors – working side by side with our magnificent military – to liberate themselves from fanatic ideologues. Instead, Nancy Pelosi had the impudence to give the credit for the Iraqis’ achieved goals to Iran.

To say the Speaker’s remarks are disquieting would be an understatement. She is, in point of fact, encouraging Iran to be aggressive. Her statements were both precarious and immoral in view of the fact Mahmoud Admadinejad considers the North American continent and the State of Israel his personal kill zones.

On the basis of such recklessness, it is essential that the following be circulated to our elected politicians (above all to those yet to be elected), which is the People’s response to their abortive 4-stage strategy:

1.      “We” are not confused adolescents.

2.      “We” will not be placated.

3.      “We” are not fools.

4.      “We” are mature citizens who demand for our children and for ourselves protection from terrorists, street gangs, exploding numbers of illegal immigrants, the escalating cost of fuel, the pandemic of irresponsible and wasteful bureaucrats, and higher taxes.

With a shifty general election looming on the horizon, it is mordantly clear that we become unceasingly involved in our own destiny. This is no longer just optional. It is mandatory.

Serious citizen-voters must take the time, either by telephone, facsimile, U.S. mail or electronic mail, and extend straightforward rulings to our elected representatives on their performance, including imminent and wounding legislation. We must be relentless until they clean up their act and rescind radical propositions, from unconditional amnesty for illegals to a plan (dreamed up by the Democrats’ nominee) to distribute $845 BILLION taxpayer dollars outside the United States, the outcome of which could further weaken our fragile economy as well as break the backs of the American People.

“We” put them there. It is now time to dust off the weed whacker, which would serve as fitting notice to the incoming POTUS. That is:

In view of this disturbing data, my personal free will has become more sacred to me every day, because each day I grow a little more scared I might lose it.

It was not always like this. My generation has known tantalizingly brief moments of harmony, when the day-to-day felt as relaxing as a pair of cushy house slippers: A drive to the shore was pleasurable and trouble-free. A stroll to the grocery store after dark for milk and Oreos was never dangerous, because that imperceptible protective dome of liberty always kept us safe.

Those memories now seem like illusions, and not just to me. Happiness and peace of mind are proving harder to come by because at-hand threats are growing louder and in greater numbers from gangs of despots and Islamic clerics who are determined to raze our temple of independence.

Worst-case scenario: What do we lose if they instigate war against us – and we are beaten? Our first loss would be freedom; next would be our livelihoods, our homes, and our families.

If you are thinking this is not possible, be reminded of the Holocaust:

The Nazi regime overran and crushed the lives of millions of defenseless civilians. Their first loss was freedom. Next, their personal possessions were appropriated. Their businesses and properties were destroyed or taken over by the state. Finally, upwards of six millions were bureaucratically exterminated, of which were whole families.

In the 1940s, fascism was gutting Europe. The Nazis demanded Jews for their death factories. Included was everyone SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich listed as not “pure” according to Aryan canon.

Comparison: In 2008 Islamic extremists are infesting worldwide. Their selection process is a Nazi blueprint: demanding the death of Jews, including America and all other nations who say no to the dubious “purity” of their ideology.

Do you still think of war and terrorism as just sentimental self-destruction? Think again.

There is no bluff or bargaining with fanatics. No matter the flights of imagination of ultra-left leaning liberals, Osama bin Ladin and Mahmoud Admadinejad will not fall spellbound under the rhythmic effect of orchestrated grandiloquence. They will not race to the table and engage in amusing repartee about peace initiatives or unification, or the kilo price of Euro-sausages.

They wait with serpent sleuth for the best opportunity when they can begin to dominate all men, depose all women, and deploy weapons of mass destruction.

Here in the United States it is common knowledge that there is a conspiracy of silence within the vacuum of the liberal mainstream media. They accumulate mountains of information which are vital for the People’s heightened awareness of the Jihad aimed at us, as well as aid our decision-making for the upcoming Presidential election. Yet those media salons persistently dole out prefabricated, biased bits and half-fact bytes, or nothing at all.

The MSM also keep the curtains drawn on the forward progress and successes of our military and other nations’ armed forces against our Islamic enemies. A perfect instance: In April, kidnapped British journalist Richard Butler was rescued by Iraqi troops during a raid in Basra. This should have made the headlines but it never saw the light of primetime news.

Conversely, had Mr. Butler not been found alive, his demise would have been rung through the news for weeks giving liberals, Congressional Democrats and other anti-establishment burn-outs the fuel to screech “End the war!” Instead, the rescue of Mr. Butler was effectively down-played.

Do you still think you are receiving accurate and essential information, or reading all the news that is fit to print? Think again.

The MSM smother truth. Congressional committees and the liberal presidential candidates – all of whose obsessions have clearly defined their weaknessess – continue on their path to thwart victory against our sworn enemies.

Thankfully, and despite these negative influences, the defense against despots, driven by our President’s tireless efforts, has thus far been extremely effective since that terrible Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001.

My gratitude goes out to Mr. Bush and to the valorous men and women of every branch of our indomitable military. I feel equally indebted to our nation’s friends and allies, such as Azerbaijan, who are as determined to impede Iran’s nuclear capabilities (yet another key account the MSM kept well off the pitch).

Humanity as a whole is under threat by Islamic extremists. At the same time, we are ill-informed because of the liberal media’s stagnant scruples. It is therefore urgent we become cruelly selective of the news and information pouring from the MSM’s tubes and follow a dedicated line of investigation above and beyond what they decide on to report.

“In light of the data recently discovered it has been proven that agricultural and perhaps the crafts attached to it, i.e., pottery making and weaving, originated in the Iranian plateau. From several essential points, the civilization in this area began 500 years before Egypt, 1,000 years before India, and 2,000 years before China.”

This is extraordinary news – that is, for a country which is today doddering towards an extinction level event at the hands of Mahmoud Admadinejad, the chief protégé of raging seditionists.

Repressed by domination within that historic milieux are decent, non-militant Muslims and non-Muslims – the millions who are just managing to survive under Admadinejad’s mismanagement, as well as being subjected to the terrorizing tenets of Admadinejad’s handlers, the extremist mullahs.

Those good people, including everyone everywhere on this planet, are now living with mounting anxiety over a nuclear conflict. Coupled with this is the unremitting primeval promise of indictment as lawbreakers anyone who attempts or expresses a desire to live freely, and privately.

Wedged also in this viscid web are men and women, and whole families, who are ostracized, threatened, or murdered for converting to Christianity. Included are natural-born Christians who are being attacked by rioting Muslims if they sense – but more often only imagine – an insult to Islam or to their prophet Mohammed.

Reading the Koran was meant to elicit a sense of tranquility, and guide its readers towards a virtuous, chaste and benevolent way of life. This holy book is now being used as a roadmap for murder. Its writings have been debased by extremists to command security police informers to persecute to the point of death anyone who challenges the Islamic authoritarian society.

Radical Islamists believe theirs is not a religion for one’s personal or moral life but a system of laws and government to be exacted throughout the world, and that only a Caliph (Islamic ruler) can possess supreme power.

The consequence is Islam has been transformed into a place where amity, fraternity, and corporal love are undemonstrative. It is a place where forward-progress of other nations is looked down upon as an illness, and where imagination is a crime. It is a place where women have fewer rights than Western children – where the vision of democracy is shattered by the specter of patrolling enforcers and squadrons of executioners.

It is the place where irresponsibility, selfishness and self-centeredness are normal elements of character. Never do we hear them, particularly Mahmoud Admadinejad and the mullahs, admit to making any mistakes. To them, it is a moral achievement to kill, particularly their burning to stamp out the Jewish peoples. And once they draw blood, which also involves using their own kin as human shields and summarily commit the heinous honor killings of the females of their families, they go into hiding.

According to the unspoiled and peaceful ranks of Islam and its tradition, Muslims are taught that each good work performed has the power to cancel ten sins. To Iran’s president, “good” means death to the West and Israel. That faction’s religiousness does not include a conscience. To the contrary, they are frankly proud of their gory deeds. And in Admadinejad’s case, he is flashing his possession of the core ingredients for nuclear fission as his mark of distinction.

Mahmoud Admadinejad and others like him hold fast to an assumption that a fulfillment of an ancient prophecy by their prophet Mohammed will come to pass. That prophecy foretold a battle in which the Holy Land would be recaptured and the elimination of the Jews would take place in a massive slaughter. It is documented in Mohammed’s Book of Traditions, which states:

“The day of judgment shall not come to pass until a tribe of Muslims defeat a tribe of Jews.” (Narrated by Abu Hurairah, Sahih Muslim, Hadith #6985; Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, #177).

When Mohammed was asked where this slaughter is destined to occur, he said, “In Jerusalem and the surrounding nations.”

In Iraq (which is roping in Iraqi children to be murder-suicide bombers), Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army are hard-wired to accept as true this theory. With over one billion Muslims worldwide, of which countless thousands have submitted and are wholly inured to that creed, this clash is compulsory.

Extremist Muslims have already propagated throughout Europe. They are going to all lengths to strip host nations clean of their conventions, their esteem, and all aspects of their freedom.

Religious freedom is a primary target. If they succeed to worldwide authority, mosques will outnumber churches, and certainly replace synagogues. Financial institutions would be taken down and monetary systems blighted. Their definitive goal is to impose allegiance to Allah, after which no one will be spared the manacles of Sharia law.

Now for the bad news:

Ask the person next to you if he or she has heard of Mahmoud Admadinejad, or Islamofascism, or Sharia law. Nine out of ten times you will be met with a shrug. One of the reasons for this is the mainstream media have pushed the growing nuclear threat inside Iran and the tsunami of radical Islam so far back on the burners they have fallen behind the stove.

Another reason is the U.S. Congress. They are in a perpetual state of laissez-faire on the urgency of our nation’s defense, and preoccupied placing the fault for their failures on others.

by Julian Krasta

Never in our short history as a nation has America confronted a world as broken and fragmented as the present, because never in our experience has there existed an enemy who defiles Holy Scripture to justify murder.

It has become commonplace to condemn and forewarn against Islamic terrorism. Sadly, it is now equally common for such condemnation and forewarnings to go unheard, and unheeded, all thanks to the liberal mainstream media and their masters, the liberal politicians.

With their masters’ approval, the MSM clamp a lid on the positives and flood negatives at our eyes and in ears like oil flowing from a busted crankcase. The People’s consciousness saturates with viscous mendacities, and their ability to rationalize right from wrong and good from evil is shortcircuited by a jumble of left-wing soundbites and predisposed partial reporting.

Knotted to this chaos of communications is the open-ended rabid derision by teacup poodles in the Senate. Cracking whips on the sidelines are those callous, noisy hypocrites who fleece the American taxpayers then flip around and poke in the eye the administration and our own intelligence and military experts – the very professionals who give unselfishly of their accredited knowledge and expertise so that our continued existence does not suffer further damage.

The epidemic of finger pointing by senators at our generals is reprehensible. They should instead lay unswerving blame on Osama bin Ladin and his corrupt clique of assassins. It was they, not President Bush or our military leaders and courageous warriors, who executed cold-blooded murder the morning of September 11, 2001 – when all innocence in the world was lost.

Had those horrors never succeeded, there would be no war in Iraq. Here at home, the twits with ‘Kerry for President’ stickers flaking off their car bumpers would not have Iraq to use as an anti-anthem to fire spitballs at our nation’s defenders and our honored dead. Saddam would still be in power and preying on his own peoples with a blizzard of abuse. He also would be building on his cache of WMDs with, no doubt, an anxious boost from his comrade in death, Mahmoud Admadinejad, with his advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium.

This, alone, is proof that, eventually, the animosity in that region of the Middle East against the United States would blow sky high. There would be war, because Democrats and their RINO toadies stuffed the critical issue of national defense and security in the Senate freezers.

Conservatives and judicious Democrats are revolted with the bloated, bellyaching Senate and Congress who step on the foul line when it comes to America’s safety. As an example, exactly one year ago, Speaker of the House Pelosi pulled a political squeeze play: She overrode the limits of her new responsibilities, packed her pumps and jetted, with full entourage, to the Middle East on what she called a “fact-finding tour.”

Nancy’s desperation to try to convince us she is a major league slugger drove her to that barefaced breach of protocol: “0 and 1.” She then hopped over to Damascus for a cosmic tête-à-tête with its leaders: “0 and 2”. Hell or high water, she was going to make a statement. Twelve months later, we are still waiting for that statement: “Full swing, strike three.”

In October, Pugnacious Pelosi came again out of left field and ramrodded Turkey with a resolution to vote as genocide the deaths of over a million Armenian nationals – during World War I. Nancy thought she was going to score with that move. Instead, it was instrumental in causing the spike in oil prices, which is hitting us all like a line drive in the gut.

The hat trick came this past week when she hurled a haymaker at President Bush, promising to block a vote for a free trade agreement with Colombia. Quoting White House press secretary Dana Perino, what Nancy has done is “unprecedented in the history of negotiating trade deals in announcing that Democrats would change the rules in the middle of the game.”

The friendly competition between the White House and the Democrat Congress was, at first, comical, like kicking dirt on the ump’s shoes after a bad call. The rivalry on the part of the Democrats, however, has devolved to being grubby, stupefying and embarrassing. Yes, we still have a bone to pick with the President when it comes to spending and a slew of other matters. To his credit, he has been working triple shifts to put a stop to our annihilation, so I have no problem cutting George a little slack – not so with Congress.

These slackjawed lawmakers are holding the American people captive. Jailers include the insufferable ACLU (who, e.g., strangled to death the joy of poking fun at ourselves, and regenerated it into a snarling brute they christened “political incorrectness”); ‘sanctury’ city councils (on “The welcome mat is out for all you millions of illegal aliens” debacle); and Congress (on our President’s efforts to snuff out terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan).

When outside threats provoke us, Americans immediately integrate – I will repeat that for B. Hussein Obama: integrate – and stand unyielding as one. How and with whom do we stand when threats erupt from members of our own team?

We are in danger of glue-brain voters electing either the “full of himself” or “she misstated” Democrat. If so, we all will endure four more torturous years of him or her (and him) and a free for all Congress who altogether refuses to play fair & square with Republicans on the safeguarding of America.

Furthermore, should such a misfit squad come to be, and continue their intolerant conduct of demonstrating to the world that they are just a bunch of power junkies, ‘We, the People’ might, in due course, lose our home advantage.

by Julian Krasta

With proper upbringing, a boy can grow into a strong, self-reliant and sensible man. If that grown man is also well adjusted and has self-respect, he will neutralize deficiencies in his character (e.g., hubris, and that brother bugaboo “machismo”) to defray misgivings and ridicule by family, co-workers and friends – even his enemies. If a man behaves or speaks idiotically, someone eventually will call him on it.

Generally, men are dreamers … like our Founding Fathers were dreamers. It was upon their collective vision that the foundation of this great country was conceived and created where we live in blessed freedom, to achieve as much as we can in the short time given us – to be as great as we wish to be. I am always happy when trying to explain this to my liberal friends; and, if I am lucky, they will still not understand it and I will have to explain all over again.

But I digress.

I dream, too – of owning one of those ultimate driving machines, turning my baseball cap front to back and pushing the pedal to the metal. Realistically, I dream of owning a handsome house in a neighborhood where I can walk, shop, socialize, sleep and just breathe without feeling afraid – where the fellow next door is not secretly buying thousands of Uzis to ship to Iran.

There are dreamers like Mahmoud Admadinejad who, along with other rogue tyrants, refers to the United States as the Great Satan. If this were true, it would be fair of me to say he is the reincarnation of Josef Stalin, only without the whimsy.

As millions of witless Americans parade in intoxicated revelry over the frenetic campaigning by the Democratic candidates (in my opinion, by the weakest field I can recall), Admadinejad skulks in shadow, waiting restlessly to dare the United States into a confrontation, possibly nuclear. He did it once, almost a year ago – to test our patience and gauge our potential firepower – when he ordered the abduction of British sailors. It was only after his advisors informed him that President George W. Bush ordered the deployment of the USS Nimitz strike group into the Persian Gulf (and with all possible speed) that Admadinijad backed down and released the prisoners to England. Our Commander in Chief had called his bluff, because his ace was, and is, the might of the United States military.

I do not need to know him personally to recognize that Admadinijad’s behavior is the product of a twisted twilight zone for the pathological and squirrelly, which pushed me to wonder: What dreams does this man have?

I began my research with the virgins in paradise myth. Its explanation is straightforward (according to Muslim legend): ”The smallest reward for the people of heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy two wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine and ruby … etc. …”

The wives referred to in this narrative are purported to be black-eyed, voluptuously beautiful virgins awaiting “the faithful” (i.e., martyrs). Who are the martyrs? They are the wretched dreamers who strap explosives to their bodies, pull the cord and destroy the lives of innocent human beings (men, women, children … babies) so that they can catapult to their heaven and luxuriate in the attention of obedient maidens.

This fantasy worries me a great deal, because I suspect Admadinejad’s dreams are loftier – that they exceed the 72-virgin limit. Why do I presume this? My wise dad once told me: “To know your enemy you must learn to think like him – to imagine every possible angle and move that runs through his mind, like a chess game.”

Armed with this counsel, I deduced the following:

If a couple of sticks of dynamite earns a murder-suicide bomber 72 chaste females, Mahmoud Admadinejad might believe (or is being led to believe by mullahs, or his own demons, or both) that he would be rewarded with a thousand, maybe a million, times the legal limit if he sets off a nuclear device. The incentive is there if he accepts as true his craven ideology’s party-line propaganda of being forever fondled by nubile nymphs.

He and others like him could avoid such razzle-dazzle if they instead bought a membership at the Emperor’s Club in New York, where former Governor Eliot Spitzer had found his paradise – several times, according to the reports. There a man does not have to be blown to bloody bits in order to attain nirvana.

I have a second, even greater worry. It is about the liberals and Democrats amongst us, whose foresight is, at best, fanciful. They dismiss the fact that it was daring and enlightened dreams that built America – that Admadinejad’s blasphemous trances could propel him and others to destroy it.

On the bright side, if Hillary Clinton becomes president her political party should split in about four months. On the down side, if Barack Obama succeeds to the Presidency this country could split in four weeks. We would then not need to concern ourselves over what aggressions Admadinejad might or might not attempt, because we (“we” includes every Barack-head who thinks he or she is exempt from being hit with taxes that will sustain Obama’s dream changes) will be drowning in the muck of his sausage factory, oxymoronic statements, such as:

“My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join me as we try to change it.”

That is the same as saying, “The Rolls Royce is the most beautifully appointed, masterfully built automobile in the world. Come on down and join in on its transformation. And bring your hammer, duct tape and can of spray paint.”

If the next President of the United States turns out to be either fantasist Democrat (both guaranteeing to fulfill a campaign pledge to leave the Middle East militarily unattended), we might as well draw a pentagram on the ground, face Mecca and join hands, and chant: