Posted on 08/08/2014 6:35:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Baker’s quote of Crocker, who served as President George W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq and President Obama’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, is worth reading in its entirety:
“This is about America’s national security,” said Ryan Crocker, who was ambassador to Iraq under Mr. Bush and to Afghanistan under Mr. Obama. “We don’t understand real evil, organized evil, very well. This is evil incarnate. People like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the ISIS leader, “have been in a fight for a decade. They are messianic in their vision, and they are not going to stop.”
It is hard to imagine how far ISIS will have spread its evil by the time January 2017 brings a new resolve to the White House. Hopefully the seriousness of this situation adds to the repudiation of the president and his party of go-along yes men and women at the polls in November, and a rebuilding of the Department of Defense can begin in earnest in January 2015.
It didn’t have to be this way. W’s generals and their troops won the war in Iraq. President Obama booted away the peace and the intricate coalition that held it in place when he abruptly pulled a residual American force from Iraq in 2011. This is a sequel to what happened in Vietnam in 1975. This time there are no boat people because there is no ocean and there are no boats. Just slaughter. And this time the enemy isn’t going to stop with conquering their country and incursions into a few local countries.
“This is evil incarnate,” as Ambassador Crocker put it so succinctly and well. Evil incarnate doesn’t fill out brackets, or rest or grow weary. It marches on and sneers at the delusions of its enemies who don’t even know they are the target.
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Abraham Lincoln said (paraphrasing) “This country cannot long survive half-slave and half-free; it must eventually become all-slave or all-free”.
Adapting, this planet cannot long survive half-Muslim and half-non-Muslim.
We have two choices - raise that army or become Muslim. Don’t forget what Winston Churchill said about Neville Chamberlain.
“We had the Vietnam War won in 1970”
But we lost. “Had it won” is a meaningless phrase when applied to war. We have been defeated now in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan with the same error every time. The war is not over when WE say we’ve won - it’s over when the ENEMY says we’ve won.
Victory is MacArthur getting off a C-47 at Haneda and walking down the main street unmolested. Victory is not evacuating clinging to helicopter skids while saying “unfair! We had it won!”
“It didn’t have to be this way. W’s generals and their troops won the war in Iraq”
What a crock.
” Sure, there are individuals that would go to extremes. As a whole, though, it doesn’t want to kill you on an institutional level”
It is moving in that direction though
The enemy did say “You win” in 1970; our government, through its countenance of treason, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
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