Posted on 12/22/2009 1:48:18 PM PST by FromLori
It's about time someone had the GUTS to call it what it is! Who do YOU trust with your Safety these days? !!!
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Sorry you get the point of my response.
meant to say didn’t get the point.
It’s Jihad, General. Terrorism this was not. It was Jihad. May sound like too fine a distinction, but it ain’t — it leads to different tactics and strategies, predictions of future behavior.
Jihad includes acts of terrorism, still this was not an act of terrorism. Jihad also includes act of suicidal mass murder as a doorway to Paradise, an offering to Allah — which this was.
The Major had no political goal, he did not mean to instill terror. No, he meant to sacrifice to Allah.
There may have been a iman who worked with him - I think that is likely based on some contemporaneous eyewitness reports of a bearded man meeting him some days before at his apartment. That Iman may have set up an act of terror, but still the motive was not terror — it was suicide and a slaughter sacrifice.
Jihad includes a component which is a suicidal slaughter self-offering. Terrorism does not. Terrorists can exploit people so disposed, if they somehow make contact with them.
You look at different things to find a Jihadi than you do to find a terrorist.
I suspect our intelligence agencies are great at finding terrorists. Terrorist have a motive to cause terror, and thus at a minimum have observers to observe the terror.
These kind of Jihads only have a motive to sacrifice themselves and any other humans with them as bonus points. They work alone, alone their motive is most pure. Our intelligence agencies are not only blind to them — they are HIRING them. Such Jihadis are drawn to the very apparatus designed to fight “terror”. And our groups love them because of a certain moral weakness in those with permajobs in Government and Military, and these secret private Jihadis speak Arabic, as a bonus. And they the agency gets diversity bonus points for hiring them.
It is weird. As the General laments, we do not see them, and we should. They are easy for unbiased folks, those of a non Federal bureaucratic PC mindset, to spot. They are VERY easy to spot.
But spotting them requires action that can involve a judgment call, one that can look bad if the judgment is suspect to the others who follow it up, and perma-job people LOATHE such judgment calls.
click this takes you directly to video but I didn’t have any problems with the other so you might have to check your computer settings if this doesn’t work it is well worth watching
http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?aid=11991
Ruger
We thought Obama was taking care of this business!!!!!
And of course the military, in its infinite wisdom, has tightened up restrictions on carrying weapons on base so that it’s only a matter of time before this happens again....
I like him.... I like him very much.
Thank you for posting this.
Browning. And by extension, whomever has (re)produced any of his designs.
IMHO; the MILITARY may be the ones who stand with The People, when the Revolution comes.....
sounds like a great video...but some of us are still stuck with dial-up...
hopefully to change in February 2010.
A paragraph summary would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
This needs to go viral.
How I wish we had a major media source that cared about truth.
Nothing is shifting. The retired general's statements mirror all the other "retired" military who have had their own say on FOX......
It's easy to speak the truth when retired but when wearing the uniform its a different story.............
LTG Boykin failed to get a fourth star because he had no fears in putting them on the line.
LTG Boykin freely expressed his beliefs in many venues and in the face of many senior officers, congressional buttheads, senatorial blowhards and presidential dumbasses.
He and I are of the same generation of soldiers that saw the jihadi sympathizers and enablers coming into the ranks and into the political scene.
I got out of it in '91, for several reasons, Clinton on his way in for one, but also because of the attitude already being fostered in the military, re: "diversity and acceptance" bullshit.
LTG Boykin has been a professed and practicing Christian since he was at least a senior Captain, probably even longer than that.
I credit him with opening my eyes to the threat, a threat that he had been talking about for several years prior to Mogadishu, a threat that he had hoped would become a rock of the foundation of the operational guidance of Delta.
I did not know him on a personal basis, nor did he directly command me, but I was aware of him for quite a while. He spent quite a while as the Delta Ops Officer, I believe, or may have been the S-2, I don't recall exactly. He was a promotable LTC when I retired, and I believe he made full COL immediately after.
He once said that the Iranian Embassy hostage rescue op was a personal failure of his.
Even though he had no direct responsibility for it, he always felt that he had not done enough to make it succeed.
Of course, as history has shown us, the only way that op could have succeeded is for Jimmah Cottah to have come down with a fatal heart attack or something, prior to the op go. But that's another story.
One hell of a leader.
One hell of a warrior.
BTTT
Didn’t help.
Direct flash and Linux don’t get along.
Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin speaks out on Fort Hood massacre, calls it terrorism; says Maj. Husan was known to be an extremist. Boykin also pointed out that we have many of these extremists in the US who want us under sharia law, and we have to start calling it what it is -- terrorism.
“Direct flash and Linux don’t get along.”
I just watched it in Firefox, on Linux.
Perhaps you need to update some software, such as Firefox. Just a suggestion, because I have no idea. But it does work on Linux.
Hank
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