Snipped from dailykos.com.

In observing the propaganda that Republicans spew forth every day about “fighting them there instead of here” and “Iraq being the major front on terrorism”, etc., I get the impression that fear is about all their party has to offer. I have always felt that this campaign of fear is what many Americans fell for early in the Iraq invasion. But now that we have had time to step back and look at what really exists in the world, we can see that the boogie man may not exist in every mosque. But to hear the way Republicans talk, we are surely headed for disaster if we let up one inch in our war on terror. Why are they so caught up in fear-mongering and how is it hurting us?

I think a lot has to do with control and it seems that the Republican party of today is all about control. This is obvious in every sector of our society today, especially with the revelations of the machinations of Karl Rove. With control, there of course is fear. For the fear of ‘lack of control’ is what I feel is driving all the insane rhetoric of the right-wing and especially the far right-wing Neo Conservatives. All you have to do is turn on your tv or radio, and you’ll hear Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter accuse anyone of being a traitor who doesn’t believe that Islamists are gong to take over the the U.S. and impose sharia law on all of us.

Here is a portion of the article that reveals the extent of the conservatives’ fear mongering.

“…the right-wing political movement in the United States… actually believe that Islamists are going to take over the U.S. and impose sharia law on all of us. And then we will have to be Muslims and “our women” will be forced into burkas and there will be no more music or gay bars or churches or blogs. This is an actual fear that they have — not a theoretical fear but one that is pressing, urgent, at the forefront of their worldview.

And their key political beliefs — from Iraq to Iran to executive power and surveillance theories at home — are animated by the belief that all of this is going to happen. The Republican presidential primary is, for much of the “base,” a search for who will be the toughest and strongest in protecting us from the Islamic invasion — a term that is not figurative or symbolic, but literal: the formidable effort by Islamic radicals to invade the U.S. and take over our institutions and dismantle our government and force us to submit to Islamic rule or else be killed.

I, and a whole lot of other moderate-thinking American people, don’t think this will happen and even if it does, with the incredible might and resources of the United States, we would win. But what the terrorists are winning at now is instilling fear. That’s all they really have. They don’t have standing armies and legitimate status on the world stage. All they have is fear and they are winning this war. Thanks to the Republicans.

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