Understanding the Pure Evil of Jihad | Radical Islam

When I came home from Iraq in 2008, friends frequently asked me what I
learned “most” from the experience. That’s a tough question to answer,
and it depends greatly on context. I learned many things about my faith,
my family, and my country, but if the question relates to the war
itself, I’d tend to say something like this: “I learned the enemy is
more evil than you can imagine, and I learned that a deployment is more
difficult than you can imagine.” But while the deployment was the
hardest thing I’ve ever done, the chance to play a very small part
(surrounded by a band of brothers) to fight this extraordinary evil made
it the most meaningful year of my life.




Since I’ve returned — and it’s been almost six years — I haven’t
stopped talking about the nature of the jihadist enemy. I share the
stories as much as I can (when the context is appropriate), yet I
continue to be discouraged by how few Americans — and especially how few
of my friends on the left — truly understand (or even try to
understand) what the world faces. So they react in outrage when Israel
strikes at Hamas, use the collapse in Iraq to once again score political
points against President Bush, and use words like “irresponsible” to describe actions like launching rockets at civilians while hiding behind civilian human shields.



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