(Mesora.org) 1st Lt. Jonathan D. Zagdanski, U.S. Army - I served as an infantry platoon leader of 26 men during nearly 6 months of combat operations in Iraq, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the unit that led the invasion into Iraq and captured Baghdad. While patrolling the streets of Baghdad, I often got involved in political conversations with secular, educated, and "moderate" Iraqis about the war against Iraq, Israel, the Jews, and America. To my surprise, most of them held wildly irrational beliefs about the world. For example, most would swear that Ariel Sharon pressured a reluctant President Bush to go to war against Iraq, and that the CIA put Saddam Hussein, a CIA agent, in power to allow U.S. forces to take Iraqi oil and impoverish Iraq. Finally, they were convinced that the CIA is controlled by the Mossad and that powerful Zionists dominate Washington, D.C. We are not at war against terrorism; we are at war against an ideology, one that believes that by destroying the enemy - the Jew, the State of Israel, and the "Great Satan" America - past Arab pride and glory would be restored. In the 1930s, millions of Germans believed that by obliterating the Jews and conquering non-Arian nations, Germany would attain unsurpassed glory and freedom. Every American and every Jew is under attack in some shape or form. We must fight back, and every one of us has the ability to contribute to the war effort. One does not need to join the U.S. Army. We can fight with our computers, our telephone, our money, our time, and our voice.
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