Ray Well, it’s here – the 2004 Election – the election that historians will look back on and say was the turning point in the first war of the 21st century. They may even call what we’re living in the Third World War. Either way, whether we realize it or not, we are living in the midst of a global war – a war not just against terrorism but against a religious ideology that views America and the Judeo-Christian worldview as the “great Satan.” This war began in earnest on September 11, 2001. Rightfully, America took the lead in this war and just a few years after 9/11, Americans have the opportunity to go to the polls and either affirm the aggressive war against terror or choose another undetermined path.
Let’s make no mistake about what is at the heart of this election. The historians will not mistake its meaning. Historians will also likely note the great cultural divide in America right now – so many hinge issues reflected in the red and blue states and the county map from 2000 that revealed two Americas – the liberal urban centers and the vast grassroots heartland. As in the war against terror, the cultural divide is really a philosophical struggle between conflicting ideologies: secular liberalism against faith-based conservatism. I believe that’s what historians will write about. Two struggles; one the early stages of a global war and the other the turning point in a cultural transformation. And Americans today will make the call.tvoivozhd---there is no aggressive war against terror, because as I have stated often before, we have "allies" whose interests diverge from our own. They will cooperate only on the rare occasions when terrorists threaten their government---they couldn't care less about ours.. That is not often enough or serious enough to realistically justify calling them allies. Ideological wars take a long time to burn out---it isn't that long ago that Christians were burning and drowning "witches", and the text they hugged to their chests was Malleus Malificarum.
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