Posted on 09/30/2014 2:48:56 AM PDT by markomalley
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida’s anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious duty. With regard to nonbelievers, the Quran commands, “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out.” The Quran contains many other verses that call for Muslim violence against nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.
Contrast the words of the Quran with the statements of limp-wristed Western leaders such as this by President Barack Obama: “We have reaffirmed that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace.” While reacting to ISIL’s slaughter of British citizen David Haines, Prime Minister David Cameron said, “Islam is a religion of peace.” Then there was the U.S. secretary of state’s explanation: “The real face of Islam is a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings.” But John Kerry and other Western politicians calling Islam a religion of peace doesn’t make it so.
A debate about whether Islam is a religion of peace or not is entirely irrelevant to the threat to the West posed by ISIL, al-Qaida and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups. I would like to gather a news conference with our Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno; Marines’ commandant, Gen. Joseph Dunford; chief of naval operations, Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert; and Gen. Mark A. Welsh, the U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff. This would be my question to them: The best intelligence puts ISIL’s size at 35,000 to 40,000 people. Do you officers think that the combined efforts of our military forces could defeat and lay waste to ISIL? Before they had a chance to answer, I’d add: Do you think the combined military forces of NATO and the U.S. could defeat and eliminate ISIL. Depending on the answers given, I’d then ask whether these forces could also eliminate Iran’s capability of making nuclear weapons.
My question to my fellow Americans is: What do you think their answers would be? No beating around the bush: Does the U.S. have the power to defeat the ISIL/al-Qaida threat and stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions — yes or no?
If our military tells us that we do have the capacity to defeat the terror threat, then the reason that we don’t reflects a lack of willingness. It’s that same lack of willingness that led to the deaths of 60 million people during World War II. In 1936, France alone could have stopped Adolf Hitler, but France and its allies knowingly allowed Hitler to rearm, in violation of treaties. When Europeans finally woke up to Hitler’s agenda, it was too late. Their nations were conquered. One of the most horrible acts of Nazi Germany was the Holocaust, which cost an estimated 11 million lives. Those innocents lost their lives because of the unwillingness of Europeans to protect themselves against tyranny.
Westerners getting the backbone to defend ourselves from terrorists may have to await a deadly attack on our homeland. You say, “What do you mean, Williams?” America’s liberals have given terrorists an open invitation to penetrate our country through our unprotected southern border. Terrorists can easily come in with dirty bombs to make one of our major cities uninhabitable through radiation. They could just as easily plant chemical or biological weapons in our cities. If they did any of these acts — leading to the deaths of millions of Americans — I wonder whether our liberal Democratic politicians would be able to respond or they would continue to mouth that “Islam teaches peace” and “Islam is a religion of peace.”
Unfortunately for our nation’s future and that of the world, we see giving handouts as the most important function of government rather than its most basic function: defending us from barbarians.
“Western leaders have become like those who feed others into the maw of the beast, hoping to be eaten last....” Pathetic losers. This has been going on for at least two or three decades only causing the muzzies to become more emboldened. A New Crusades will begin to form out of a sense of duty to the preservation of Western Civilization by those who know it’s value and wish to save it for themselves, their families and their society. Who will lead though, especially when there are so many enemy from within who’ve aligned themselves with the mohammedans? Time will tell and it will be provided for by the God of the people of the Book, Christians and Jews. Alert your family and friends of the the true nature of islam, so they are prepared to defend themselves due to the betrayal of the elites and the failure of the ignorant.
The west? The UN? The EU? Bureaucrats? Neo-sociailsts? The U.S.A. (United Socialists of America)? Foreign barbarians vs. domestic looters? Collectives are carving up the turkey after they’ve chopped off his head.
One of the first things we need to do is to use the left’s own anti-’hate speech’ laws and edicts to target radical proselytizing in mosques, prisons, and schools located in the West. This should include filters on this crap from internet provider services and cellular service providers. I know this sounds like Big Brother, but we are at war.
From “The Quranic Concept of War”
The Hoover Institution’s Paul Sperry recently stated, “Four years into the war on terror, US intelligence officials tell me there are no baseline studies of the Muslim prophet Muhammad or his ideological or military doctrine found at either the CIA or Defense Intelligence Agency, or even the war colleges.”
Would this be surprising? When it comes to warfighting military audiences tend to focus on the military and power aspects of warfare; the tangibles of terrain, enemy, weather, leadership, and troops; quantifiables such as the number of tanks and artillery tubes—the correlation of forces. Analysts steer toward the familiar rather than the unfamiliar; people tend to think in their comfort zones. The study of ideology or philosophy is often brushed aside, it’s not the “stuff of muddy boots;” it is more cerebral than physical and not action oriented. Planners do not assess the “cor- relation of ideas.” The practitioners are too busy.
Dr. Antulio Echevarria recently argued the US military does not have a doc- trine for war as much as it has a doctrine for operations and battles. The military has a deficit of strategic, and, one could add, philosophic thinking.
http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/06winter/win-ess.pdf
Thanks for the post, pieceofthepuzzle. War we are at. “Knife at our throats”? No leathernecks allowed. CONgre$$ can ban sharp blades. /sarc
Who will protect us from our protectors (RIP Mark Scott)?
As a former practitioner of military intelligence, humint oriented and counter-terror directed, I can assure you that there are many neo-leftists in the business, who think they are uniquely astute, more nuanced, more responsible and intelligent than the the old-school knuckledraggers they saw when they looked at me and my fellow realists.
Well, I have been right 100% and the elitist faculty loungers have been wrong 100%.
They have been driven and whiplashed into conformity by liberal indoctrination, political and cultural deconstruction, a need to celebrate anything diverse as opposed to anything American. They participate in every liberal cause and celebrate the derangement of the so-called LGBTQ agenda.
They just cannot help themselves. They are thoroughly debased and brainwashed, psychologically and morally neutered, pack dogs that lick spittle from their master’s boots.
Gee that was harsh. Meant every damn word of it.
Thanks for your work/observations/post.
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