ITS WAR, MR PRESIDENT !!!
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
As one who believes the power of the Military Industrial Complex (see Pres. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address) is real, I no longer will argue the merits of the War In Iraq. Was it neo-imperialism; was it about oil; was it Wilsonian nation-building; or, was it W’s revenge for Saddam’s threats on Poppy??? Who knows?? There is money made in War Financing and Arms Contracts and you have to have an Enemy to have a war. Beyond that, all the above could be true. But Afghanistan was different, and the recent related actions in the Pakistani border region and Yemen go further to prove that.
September 11, 2001 was a pre-meditated attack on American soil using civilian airliners to strike symbols of American Business, the Military, and probably the Government. While admiring much of Dr Ron Paul’s views on the size and scope of Government, these Muslim Extremists did not attack us due to American occupation of Arab lands as he recently stated. The US has provided economic and humanitarian aid to Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Indonesia. The US has risked the lives of American military personnel to protect American interests and peace-keeping efforts (some ill-conceived) in Lebanon, Kuwait, the Persian Gulf and Arabian peninsula, Afghanistan, and Iraq. This Nation has not colonized any of these areas. The US does not have public plans to permanently occupy any of these regions. Those are not goals of the American Republic.
Al-Qaeda, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and like-minded extremists share a Radical Muslim ideology which is anti-democratic, anti-capitalist, anti-Semitic, and tyrannical– particularly against women. These groups hate Israel and America as an ally of Israel. They hate freedom-loving secular society. They use a warped radicalized version of Islam to recruit jihadists to wage acts of terrorism on Israel, Europe, India, the US, and Muslim countries friendly to these infidel states. After small-scale attacks in the Eighties and Nineties, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda declared war on the United States with the September 11 Attacks. The radical Taliban sheltered the terrorist organization in Afghanistan, and so was subsequently toppled in the US invasion. The Bush administration lost focus before bin Laden and his cohorts were rooted out and exterminated. His jihadists burrowed deeper into the Pakistani border region. You can argue whether Iraq became a further front in that war, but the terrorists have struck targets in Pakistan, India, and become more heavily involved in Yemen. The recent terror attack at Ft Hood was perpetrated by a jihadist Muslim US Army major who has ties with a radical mosque in Virginia and an internet imam in Yemen. Then there was the near-miss Christmas attempt to blow up a civilian plane on a Holland to Detroit flight. The radical Muslim Nigerian had been trained and equipped in Yemen by al-Qaeda.
All of the Sept.11 hijackers were Muslim Arabs; The Ft Hood Army Major was a MuslimPalestinian; and the recent Nigerian was a radical Muslim as well. His own father had warned the US State Dept in Nigeria of his son’s radical bent. The would-be terrorist bomber 1)bought a one-way ticket; 2) paid cash; and 3) carried no luggage for the trip. Here were four warnings that should have raised red flags in Nigeria and/or Holland. These are stateless entities; the perpetrators are clearly religious-motivated guerrilla fighters; but make no mistake, Mr President, this is WAR. The US Administration must acknowledge this reality and plan its strategies accordingly.
Military tactics from 1950s Korea to 60s-70s Vietnam and 90s-2009 in the Gulf and Afghanistan have been highly successful; it is the geopolitical strategy level that has suffered. America wins battles but loses conflicts since WWII. That is not the field soldier’s fault, its the politicians’. Now, America finds itself in the hands of the most internationalist-minded chief executive in history. More so than Wilson, FDR, Truman, Carter, Bush I, and Clinton. His Christian back-ground is Black Liberation theology. His father and step-father were Muslims. He was raised in Muslim tradition in Indonesia during his formative years. If these men and CFR-dominated JFK, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush II administrations allowed America to drift geopolitically and economically toward socialistic internationalism, where will this president take the country in four years? ITS A WAR, MR PRESIDENT; and the objective in war is victory! Victory is achieved by defeating the enemy through destroying his ability to wage war. When we wake up to this reality, America can become winners again.
