One of my biggest worries preceeding the war in Iraq last year was that hostile action towards iraq could galvanize the rest of the Arab league into full-on, face to face war with us, in defense not only of a “brother” nation, but of their own “way of life.”

I was such a fool to believe that they would be that tactically challenged.

More than a year after the drunken debates with my close friend over how — and not just “if,” since we settled on that pretty soon — a war in Iraq should be fought, I am without answers, only observations, and the luxury of conjecture.

The truth is there really is a unified Arab front against us. These are the ones who want to reestablish a worldwide Caliphate. It seems like such a boogeyman word, isn’t it? “Global Islamic Caliphate,” and yet that has been the goal of Islam as a political movement long before the United States even existed. I am appalled at how this “unified Arab front” is conducting its war against us, simply because a year ago, I gave them enough good faith to assume they’d fight on the same turf.

Ah, the foolishness of youth.

Do I have proof that Iran and other nations like Syria are fighting a proxy war against us using terrorism, and by funding “insurgents?” Nope, no proof. But I have a hunch that they are. The religious leaders who direct terrorism as foreign policy are willing to sacrifice their own followers, not for self-defense, but for the destruction of the enemy. In all fairness, I want them destroyed too. If there were an honorable “unified Arab front” against us, they would have mobilized against our troops in Iraq. Instead, they are willing to bastardize their god’s words in order to stir up fervor against us infidels, whipping their constituents into a fervor that promises heaven in exchange for murder.

Terrorism isn’t exactly foreign policy. It, and the terrorists who participate, are mere weapons for their leaders who want… What else, but everything? They are unified. They are all interconnected, and they all want us dead.

Just how hard is that to grasp now?