1.  Mr. May's states:  "For more than a generation, a war was fought against the U.S.  Most Americans, however, didn't know it."  Do you agree with his premise?  Explain your answer.

2.  What kind of an enemy are we fighting?  Why do you think that some Americans don't agree that we are in a war?  Explain your answer. 

3.  President Bush, in his speech on Oct. 6 said: "...militants murder in pursuit of a dream of conquest and domination..."  What do they want to conquer?  Who do they want to rule?
(To read President Bush's full speech, click here.)

4.  This is a very serious article, but not discouraging.  Why can you feel encouraged by this article?

5.  This U.S. News article details some U.S. strategy for beating the Islamofascists.  Why do you think that our government and military do not publicize all of the plans they have for doing so?

6.  Blogger 'Top Mustang', a National Guardsman stationed in Iraq had this to say regarding President Bush's speech (read the full posting here):

If what I believe is true, then this war is the most just and necessary war the United States has fought since the Second World War.  We have a plan to win.  It's not easy and it won't happen quickly.  But we will win. 
By applying a combination of military, diplomatic, economic, humanitarian and educational strategies worldwide, we will destroy both today's active terrorists and tomorrow's potential terrorists... Not just Iraq, but worldwide.  Not just Al Qaeda, but Islamic extremism.  This war is bigger than 9-11, but some people just can't see the bigger picture.  We are not at war to bring the perpetrators of 9-11 to justice.  We are at war to prevent Islamic extremists from taking over the world.  We have been fighting this war since the creation of the PLO in 1965, only we didn't know it.  We continued to run around denying the significance of the threat in the face of the Iran hostage crisis, the Beirut barracks bombing, hijackings, kidnappings, assassinations of Americans, and attacks on our own soil.  Most of America is now aware of the reality of the threat.  Unfortunately, many of our countrymen can't think in terms beyond that of a 10 second sound bite...

How do his words inspire you and give you hope? 

SOME ADDITIONAL QUOTES TO THINK ABOUT:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
--Edmund Burke

"If you want peace, prepare for war". ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
--Flavius Vegetius Renatus. Roman Military strategist. c. 390. A.D

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave..."
--Patrick Henry

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stewart Mill