America Under Attack
Time moves on.
And history gets forgotten.
But between the latest war from Iran in the Middle East and the arrest of two ISIS-supporting young people in New York who were plotting an attack on New York City “bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing,” it is crystal clear that America is under attack.
An attack that looms as a new 100-year war.
For those whose history recall is rusty, the first 100 Years’ War is recalled over here in Wikipedia as follows:
The Hundred Years’ War was a significant conflict in the Middle Ages. During the war, five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of France, then the wealthiest and most populous kingdom in Western Europe.
Today’s war, it appears unarguable now, is between radical Islam and America and the larger Western World.
It burst into the open on Nov. 4, 1979, when a group calling themselves the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage. It occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution that dethroned the Western favorite, the longtime Shah of Iran.
From that moment on, this or that crisis would arrive as set up by the Iranian revolutionaries running the country. The target was always America or individual groups of Americans.
By way of example, as noted in this space a while back:
In April of 1983, the Iran-based Islamic Jihad organized a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. In October of that same year, there was another Iran-inspired suicide car bombing, this one again at the Beirut U.S. Embassy. This attack killed 241 U.S. military personnel. Civilian airliners were hijacked through the years, one of them in 1984 diverted to Tehran, where two Americans were tortured and murdered.
On and on this has gone, with Iranian murderous assaults on various Americans in 1985, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and on into the 21st century, with Iranian attacks on Americans from 2001 on through the years to just last year in 2025, when American bases in Syria and Iraq were attacked.
All of which is to say, as must have been the case for those involved in the original Hundred Years’ War, the conflict seemed to go on endlessly. Outlasting any number of generations who were born in the war and later died in the latest version of the war after a long life, with the war still going.
America has faced seemingly endless wars in relatively recent history. The rise of Hitler’s Germany and Tojo’s Japan doubtless appeared to Americans of the day as never going away. And they didn’t until open warfare finally broke out with America and the surprise Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The Americans responded with a declaration of war, and Hitler responded by joining the Japanese with a Nazi declaration of war against the United States.
With World War II won, it quickly became clear that what was going to be called “the Cold War” had begun. This was a seemingly forever war between the Communist Soviet Union, its Communist allies, and America and the Western world. It didn’t end until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989.
But this time around, what appears to be the new Hundred Year’ War is between the followers of radical Islam and America as part of the Western World. Unlike Communism and Hitler’s Naziism, radical Islam began, per historians, not in the 19th or 20th century but rather at the dawn of the 7th century.
Over there at Wikipedia, the history of Islam is written as starting “at the beginning of the 7th century.” And while Communism and Naziism may have seemed like a religion to their most enthusiastic followers, Islam is in fact a religion.
Which, in turn, effectively puts America and its Western allies in Europe and around the globe in a religious war. A war that appears by every indication in today’s world as a war that is going to last not simply for a hundred years but forever.
A “Forever War.” Or as some might doubtless have it, a “Religious War.”
Now there’s something to concentrate Western minds for the next Hundred Years.
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