Posted on 02/14/2015 4:52:49 AM PST by OwenKellogg
We are at war!
World War III has started and apparently our government is unwilling to acknowledge it.
Prior to World War II, efforts were made throughout Britain and the United States to avoid war at all costs with disastrous consequences. We will face the same disaster if we do not face reality immediately.
In the Britain of the 1930's, Chamberlain attempted to appease Hitler until it was too late for Poland and the world. His appeasement increased the death toll from that war substantially.
In the year 2015, the parallels to 1939 are striking. We are in denial. Our nation cannot even give the enemy a name let alone develop the strategy to defeat it.
Face reality America, our nation is at war.
To not deal with Islamic extremists forcefully and on a united front will be disastrous for the world.
Unlike World War II, we have almost instantaneous information on the brutality of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and other extremist groups. Recently the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot (story line only – no video out of respect for a fellow serviceman) and the almost nonstop beheadings were available on YouTube and other social media sites. This time there can be no denial of these atrocities as was done with the denial of the atrocities against the Jews during World War II.
As we debate whether or not the enemy are Islamic extremists or not, people are dying, nations are falling, the enemy is getting stronger, and we are becoming numb to the horrific tragedies unfolding before us.
Pursuing the axis of evil was a strategy of President Bush. When President Obama took office that strategy was abandoned. The term terrorist and Islamic extremism were literally banned and terms like workplace violence came into vogue.
President Bush correctly saw the evil for what it was. He understood the enemy. He understood what happened on September 11, 2001. He did something about it.
President Obama on the other hand has focused on a strategy of appeasing his base of support in the United States.
Bombing is not a strategy.
Announcing dates of withdrawal from Iraq is not a strategy.
Announcing dates of withdrawal from Afghanistan is not a strategy.
Announcing that ground troops will not be used is stupid.
Building a coalition of allies is a strategy.
Understanding the threat and identifying it as a threat is a strategy.
Neutralizing the threat is a strategy and desired outcome. There can be no other solution to the current quandary that we are in than to deal with this threat decisively and aggressively.
During World War II, Germany was called Nazi Germany. In much the same way, terrorism in the name of Islam is called Islamic extremism. Islamic extremism is the threat.
Just as in Nazi Germany, and in Fascist Italy and in Fascist Japan, there were many decent citizens of German, Italian, and Japanese nationalities. The decent citizens were overwhelmed by the sheer brutality of the nations in which they lived.
During my time in Afghanistan and Iraq, I had the distinct pleasure of getting to know many Iraqis and Afghans. These individuals were more than willing to fight against tyranny and Islamic extremism. However, the moment President Obama announced dates of withdrawal, he sealed the fate of those willing to resist the Islamic extremist.
While in Iraq I was shown videos of what Saddam Hussein and his minions did to the Iraqi population. We have no frame of reference in this country of such brutality. To this day those videos are a stark reminder of how evil people gain control of others
Announcing the withdrawal from any nation before the conflict is over or what military options you will and will not consider, you have sealed your fate and lost the war.
To complicate matters, the executive branch has declared a peace dividend and started to demobilize American military forces before the war has truly begun. This is national suicide.
The strategy to defeat Islamic extremism is extremely simple.
Islamic extremists must know that the United States in this battle until the end. The extremist must know that we will fight with our allies to include Muslim nations as one force to defeat a common enemy.
Covert military forces would be used and would include our own Special Forces, Marine Force Recon, Navy Seals, 93rd Wing U. S. Air Force as well as the CIA and our allies special forces.
Special Forces provide a much smaller footprint for the enemy and are specially trained for counter insurgency operations. They are the right force at the right time.
We must also recognize that protecting our national treasury is our mission and the terrorist's objective.
We must be smart about fighting this war and be prudent in how we spend our limited resources. We must fight insurgencies with counterinsurgency tactics.
When we combine words and actions and show a national intent to defeat the extremist, the terrorist base of support will evaporate rapidly and the decent people in the affected nations such as Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia will understand that they have an ally they can rely upon and trust to help destroy terrorism from within.
The Islamic extremists can be destroyed. Nothing, however, will happen until we acknowledge that we are at war whether we like it or not.
---------- Frank Ryan, a CPA and retired colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve served in Iraq and briefly in Afghanistan and specializes in corporate restructuring and lectures on ethics for state CPA societies.
Under Obama and the corrupt EXEMPT docile Congress,
the US gov’t is behind Iran, N. Korea and al Qaeda
in their attack on the American people, free people,
Israel, and all religions except Islam (also EXEMPT).
All I am saying is that is not the only threat out there.
America is no longer the number one manufacturer on the planet. China is now the number one manufacturer.
China is growing fast. With our manufacturing plants, in China.
Bring back American industry.
That strategy seems to be working.
Marines being disarmed in Yemen? A success story ONLY if the strategy is to allow Islam to dominate.
maybe a war is what is needed to get America back on track. The only problem this war will be different in that it will take place in the Middle East and the secular Islamists believe that the 12th Imam will never return until the conditions are right. Rivers of blood will flow throughout the world in this war. Keep this in mind the secular islamists are fightin what is called a pagan nomadic war against the factions that exist throughout the Islamic culture, it is not Sunni and Shitite only it is aginst the ruling elite, the educated, the uneducated, women, the West and homosexuality. The oddity here in the West homosexuality is becoming the norm and the secular Islamists will destroy the homos very quickly.
The existential threat to the USA is in the White Hut.
Face it America, nothing will be done to fight this until all leftists are out of power. Both parties.
The US IS committing suicide. I blame the government, but I also blame the people for allowing a disgraceful person to run the country and doing nothing to stop him.
We are past the pissing and moaning stage.
Face it America, nothing will be done to fight this until all leftists are out of power.
Leftism — liberalism — is a suicide pact.
To complicate matters, the ally of our enemy is in the WH.
unfortunately zer0 is not as benign as dopy chamberlain. He is more like quisling
This is 1940 all over again. Like Hitler overrunning the borders of the neighboring countries, ISIS is quickly overrunning the location of their original assault on a semi-legitimate regime, into neighboring countries, and extending their reach into countries far distant from point of origin, while managing to disable or nullify potential opponents by guile or deceit.
Only after the United States was hit on a point of vulnerability, in such manner that was vastly provocative and intensely damaging, were the layers of self-imposed isolation pealed away, and the ire of the majority of American citizens sufficiently aroused, to overcome the years of blindness and complacency.
And we damned near LOST that war.
The new Freedom Tower in New York City will probably have to be knocked down before the real intent of ISIS is made apparent to the large majority of residents of that territory once known as “the United States of America”, so there shall there be a sufficiently large measure of anger to begin the business of ridding the world of this scourge.
So far as Islam ever “dominating” the world, if they cannot generate strife with the non-Muslim world, because it is either destroyed or subjugated, they will turn upon themselves, like a pack of rabid wolverines, and destroy “dissident” factions within their own ranks.
“Bombing is not a strategy.”
I read Ya there. Ask Japan after Hiroshima or Nagasaki about its effectiveness. Or the folks in Tokyo, Hamburg or Dresden about the effectiveness of firebombing.
Absolutely crazy Democrats in office result in absolutely crazy policies by people who think they’re brilliant intellectual geniuses.
Absolutely amazing.
IMHO
——Building a coalition of allies is a strategy.-——
That is the problem.
The world, ie the potential members of such a coalition, has determined that Obama is truly a zero and can’t be trusted to do anything but read speeches.
Actually, he didn't. He called the enemy a "religion of peace".
He understood what happened on September 11, 2001. He did something about it.
Not nearly enough.
Meanwhile ISIS is writing the book on total war, or at least reading and interpreting Mohammed's book on that topic.
GWB got it wrong, I thought. He didn’t blame Saudi Arabia. He didn’t make US borders more secure from invasion. The initiative should’ve been to keep maniacs out of the US and to support stable governments that renounced terrorism.
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