What a stud! Tell it!
btt
God bless him for saying what the PC military and media will not.
I wonder if he’s on the DHS/0bama’s hit list?
The paradigm is shifting..
truth bump
Outstanding!
bookmarked and pinged
Unfortunately it’s always the retired brass who speak out. We rarely see an active senior officer willing to put his stars on the line to do or say what is right.
Thanks for posting this. Can’t be said enough.
I just saw this on ABC/CBS/MSNBC! /sarc off
Where have all the true patriots gone?
Thanks for the post. An honest, compelling and succinct assessment by the General. Excellent.
bump for a good man
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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.
Ruger
We thought Obama was taking care of this business!!!!!
I like him.... I like him very much.
Thank you for posting this.