Posted on 11/30/2015 1:40:06 PM PST by PoliticallyShort
“Ignorance kills. In war, ignorance brings defeat, especially for those who are sworn to support and defend us,†writes Stephen Coughlin in his latest book Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad. Coughlin continues, “While ignorance is not a crime for the average person, it is for professionals concerning subject matter that is the object of their professions. Why shouldn’t this hold true for national security professionals? For them, one requirement is that they know the enemy by undertaking real threat identification of entities that constitute actual threats to the Constitution and people of the United States.â€
The refusal to account for the doctrinal elements of Islam in our national security analyses constitutes the professional malpractice that Coughlin was alluding to as our threat doctrine has been reduced to strategic incomprehension and incoherence. In wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris that took the lives of 130 and injured 350 others, Coughlin ominously warned back in April that this strategic incoherence in the War on Terror “will increasingly be measured by news stories that reveal senior leaders’ inability to answer basic questions about the nature of the enemy and his environment. It will also manifest itself in official responses to terrorist attacks that become progressively less reality-based.†Yet, as Americans, Parisians, and virtually every citizen living within Western society grows more outraged by yet another failure of intelligence in stopping the latest jihadist attack, “those professionally and constitutionally tasked with keeping them safe continue to lack awareness, understanding, and even professional curiosity about the doctrines that drive the enemy to action,†notes Coughlin.
For our enemies, the implementation of Islamic law known as sharia is both the objective and the basis in which they routinely states their justification for attack.
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Hussein is a Bitter Clinger to Jihad and the Queeran.
As soon as I can peel the cat off my lap I’m going to get up and order it.
It’s only $5.99 on Kindle.
I am not a Muslim but have done a lot of research on Islam to educate myself about Islam.
I would have no disagreement of just about anything Osama bin Laden says about that religion since I have the same opinion of the Wahabbis, of which Osama was one.
Muhammed ibn Wahabb lived in the 1700s and I believe he correctly was against practicing Islam differently than it was practiced by Muhammed, and the Muslims who followed Muhammed up until the Mid 900s.
After that the religion got corrupted. Muhammed ibn Wahabb was a back to basics guy, and wanted the Koran and Hadiths, and Muhammed's interpretation, followed to the letter, and not to water Islam down with more modern additions not justified in the Koran and Hadiths.
Following Wahabb's interpretation is what the 9-11 hijackers did and what ISIS is doing now.
Any Muslim worth his salt is going to kill us unbelievers (Kafirs) and unless us Kafirs understand that, we are going to be in a war of attrition with Islam and naive Infidels aiding the Muslims. - Tom
"After the events of September 11, 2001, Stephen Coughlin was mobilized from his private sector career to the Intelligence Directorate at the Joint Chiefs of Staff to work in Targeting. Thus began his education in terrorism. In the years that followed, Coughlin earned recognition as the Pentagon’s leading expert on the Islamic-based doctrines motivating jihadi groups that confront America. He came into demand as a trainer and lecturer at leading commands and senior service staff institutions, including the National Defense University, the Army and Navy War Colleges, the Marine Corps-Quantico, the State Department, and the FBI. So effective were his presentations that some in the special operations community dubbed them "Red Pill" briefings, a reference to an iconic scene in The Matrix. It's an apt metaphor: Once the facts and doctrines are properly explained and understood, there is no going back.
This was more than our enemies - and, it seems, our leaders - could tolerate. Beginning in 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood convinced the White House to ban Coughlin and put an end to his briefings. The move was in keeping with shariah concepts of slander that seek to blindfold America to certain realities that render us defenseless against a threat made existential by the very ignorance it gets our leaders to enforce. In times like this - when the White House's former counterterrorism strategist can declare it unconstitutional to allow national security analysts to look to Islam to understand jihad - there’s an urgent need to pull away the blindfold so we can see and confront the threat. Such is the goal of Catastrophic Failure. The book, drawn heavily from Coughlin's 'outlawed' briefings, is a comprehensive assessment of Islamic law and doctrine known to form the basis of hostile threat strategies directed against America and the West, the challenges they present, and the ideologically induced breakdown of fact-based decisionmaking that is nothing short of professional malpractice by our national security elites.
America's leaders and academia have failed us...
Blog pimpin’ is unattractive.
It's left up to the American people themselves to do something about this menace called Islam. Our politicians and academia have sold us out.
Saudi Prince pledges $32 billion to "charity": promoting Islam, while censoring criticism of it
How many American politicians and academia with $32 billion buy???
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