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Eugene Conrotto: ‘Liberal’ has plan for Jihadist

An open letter to President Obama:

Mr. President, I am a lifelong liberal. But when the wolf is at the door, one does not invite him in for a professor-to-student tutorial on the cause of the wolf’s anger. What one does is shoot the son-of-a-(deleted).

Please, Mr. President, no more pointing out that not all Muslims are Jihadists. Sir: all Jihadists are Muslims.

This East-West conflict is not about oil, it’s about what it has been since the Crusades: who has God’s ear? We in the West are fortunate in that most of our colonies were theocracies, thus forcing the Federal government to be neutral in matters of religion. The East, on the other hand, has given way to theocracy and the wretched fruit that tree invariably bears.

To deal with this Mid-East mess I suggest you tell the Muslim world: “We are pulling out our military and diplomatic assets and concentrating them in Israel. You should regard Israel as part of the U.S. should you try to carry out your endless threats to destroy it. We will cleanse our nation of ISIS be-headers by offering them free passage to the Muslim state of their choice. Get your house in order.”

Eugene L. Conrotto, Modesto

This story was originally published October 28, 2014 at 6:58 PM with the headline "Eugene Conrotto: ‘Liberal’ has plan for Jihadist."

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