Posted on 06/03/2015 5:31:13 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Brian: Stephen Coughlin is a former army intel officer and author of the book called Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad.
Brian: So Stephen did you feel that nailed who our enemy was and gradually were told to pull back?
Stephen: Yes thats exactly what happened. I was brought into the Pentagon as an intelligence officer. The goal of intelligence is to define the enemy as he defines himself. Its not my fault he defines himself as jihadi to oppose Islamic Law.
They asked me to purge that from my research and I refused so they purged me. The question becomes if you cant analyze Al Qaeda based on what they say they are fighting for how, can you analyze them at all.
Brian: I guess the fear is that well if you say we are at war with Islam, you are fighting millions of people, lets disseminate and say the war against radical Islam. Do you have a problem with that?
Stephen: I dont have a problem with the idea at all. Our goal is to define the enemy. At a certain point they were just Nazis in Germany. When the Nazis took over they controlled Germany and we had to fight all of Germany. What we are seeing is that type of process cycle up.
So I dont have to prove what true Islam is to all Muslims, I just have to prove what Islam is to the people who are fighting and they think these things.
Brian: So lets look at the National Intelligence Report from 2004 they mention these words in this frequency chart:
Jihad 126
Muslim 145
Islam 322
Sharia 2
And in 2009 Jihad 0
Muslim 0
Islam 0
Sharia 0
Brian: Is there a danger in that?
Stephen: There is an absolute danger. You cant target what you will not define. I think we think of the war on terror and war over there, but I think the people we are up against, feel that they can win the war over here by influencing how we conceptualize the nature of the threat. And miss all the time. Because if I cant use the concepts of Jihad, that Al Qaeda say they rely on, then I cant understand what they are going to do.
Brian: The president says they bastardize Islam and use it as an excuse for their behavior. Whats the truth?
Stephen: For example, the president said Isis is not Islamic. But in December, without supporting them, Alazar the most prestigious center of Islam in the world, said they are Islamic, so if it is good enough for them, it is good enough for me.
Brian: When people read your book Oh well, he just got fired. What do you say?
Stephen: I never asked to do it in the first place. I was a reserve officer and successful. They brought me back in as a consultant and I was successful again.
Brian: I would like it much more if you were on our side disseminating this intelligence. Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad. Steven Coughlin, thanks so much.
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/04/02/blaze-exclusive-these-five-potentially-banned-pages-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-disastrous-state-of-americas-national-security/
Major Stephen Coughlin, an attorney, decorated intelligence officer and the man known as the Pentagons leading expert on Islamic law has been warning America for years about our inability or unwillingness to know, let alone define our enemy, and the disastrous consequences we will face as a result.
In spite of his groundbreaking work for the Pentagons National Military Command Center, the National Military Joint Intelligence Center, the National Security Councils Interagency Perception Management Threat Panel and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Directorate, along with lectures at practically all of Americas leading national security institutions, by his own admission Coughlins work is no longer welcomed in much of Washington D.C.
Another article:
National Security Expert: U.S. Foreign Policy Leaders Have Lost The Ability To Think
http://counterjihadreport.com/2015/02/22/national-security-expert-u-s-foreign-policy-leaders-have-lost-the-ability-to-think/
Military purge list
2:42 Minutes
Stephen Coughlin on Fox & Friends 6.3.15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuL3_fCqMfw
Islam’s war against civilization is far from over.
what a nightmare
Why am I reminded of an ostrich?
Why am I reminded of Obama....?
Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
Active Duty ping.
Maybe because when you think of someone whose head is planted firmly up the yang yang, you automatically think of him.
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I have his original paper, which was a masters thesis, for which he was fired. It’s good reading.
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