Posted on 11/27/2016 6:08:51 AM PST by Kaslin
On November 3, a Jordanian soldier opened fire on three CIA vehicles carrying over a dozen US soldiers, many of whom helped train Jordanian soldiers. In the senseless attack, three Americans were killed, and to this day, no one knows why.
Jim Moriarty, the father of one of murdered Americans, asks the King of Jordan and the President of the United States: "Who was it that murdered my son and why?"
As leader of Jordan’s Opposition Coalition, I feel obligated to answer to Mr. Moriarity directly, because none of the families of the fallen soldiers have received acceptable answers.
To do so, I think we need to start at the beginning by examining the facts. When the attack took place, on November 4, the Hashemite regime that rules Jordan claimed it was an “accident.” In fact, the Jordanian Monarch’s official media first blamed the victims, claiming that they failed to stop at the checkpoint at one of the most fortified air bases in the Middle East. But that’s not probable, as the victims were Special Forces troops who knew the rules better than anyone else.
Nonetheless, at the time, the regime was determined to stick to its story in the hopes that the incident would blow over, so It launched a media campaign promoting the story. They specifically used social media outlets to promote the following disturbing messages:
The soldier who killed the Americans was executing the law.The arrogant American soldiers refused to stop at the gate and got what they deserved.
The shooter shows the Americans that nothing is above Jordan’s sovereignty.
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The author makes a weak case. A better case from the evidence presented would be that Jordan’s king is a mercenary who sells anything to the highest bidder and deals with smugglers for profit. That sounds like just about every member of the Arab elite I have ever met.
He obviously hates King Abdulah of Jordan.
I know why. Muzzi went Jihad.
exactly
But they also made excuses for the terrorist attack AND make false claims about the US and Israel being the chief enemies. Which is practically Muslim doctrine.
I think the lesson from all of this is that Islam is a political ideology that wants all non-Muslims exterminated or enslaved, and only Muslims who truly oppose that agenda are fit to be allies of the free world.
The most important line in this article is the one saying that Jordan’s SECULAR opposition is ready to govern. I think this author knows what I just said, and is saying it without saying it.
These incidents underscore the fundamental reality. Islamic culture is simply not compatible with the values practices and institutions of the West. Western culture, like it or not , constitutes modernity. It has established the standards and mode of living that most of the worlds people covet or wish to emulate. This conflict in cultural realities is the real reason for the violence, instability and massive migrations toward the lands formerly known as Christendom. The barbaric Saudi financed, Wahhabi motivated jihadists are bewildered reactionaries who seek solace, status and power embracing the customs and even dress of the 10th century. They are opposed locally by those who consciously and practically seek to embrace a Western living standard. Hence the barbaric wars and the migrations.
Hopefully the West will come to understand the underlying reasons for the Islamic disruption. Frankly it must disengage from the region and allow the people to achieve their own consensus. American involvement has been ineffectual and has not enhanced the security of the region or the American people. Instead it has squandered a fortune in priceless human and material resources. Picking a side in these local fights has not only been futile but has created bitter, long term , needless enemies. Politically incorrect to state but disengagement and securing borders while the caldron cools and transforms is appropriate policy. Most would call it “neo isolationism” ( Oh no!) but the enlightened would recognize rationality.
It was a simple sacrificial gift to the kind and peace loving Jordanian people and their King, showing that we, as Americans, fully respect their borders and national sovereignty.
SandMonkey treachery is endless.
Agreed, agreed and agreed. The author is head of the Jordan Opposition Coalition. The OP should have made comment of that fact (lazy).
I’ll save others the frustration of trying to read the article on the now-adware-infected American Thinker site:
The Jordanian soldier was ISIS and 0bama’s legacy lives on with the deaths of American soldiers due to a foreign policy which embraces an ISIS-supporting Jordanian monarchy.
American soldiers in a country trading belligerents, cannot be “murdered.”
They were killed in an act of war. They are legitimated targets.
I am sympathetic to this family. But words have meanings. War is war. People get killed in wars. We need to start speaking in plain language.
They died because they were infidels. Everything else is BS.
Better question is what were they doing in Jordan? What was their mission? Who were they training and for what purpose and end?
Those were rhetorical questions and of course the answer is that they were helping the “good” jihadis, like we previously helped the “good” jihadis like Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan 30 years ago.
How the war agitators in think tanks and at the Weekly Standard and the National Review were able to manipulate the average American Christian into believing that the operation to remake the Middle East was somehow in America’s and Christianity’s interest— when it was counter to both— will confound those a thousand years hence.
It seems like our military is now being fully used to further the interests of anti-nationalist globalist elite neocons. Not America. I hope to God this ends with Trump. I also hope he abolishes the Department of Defense and reverts it back to the Department of War.
Because soebarkah put them there to be murdered.
No disrespect to any military veterans here on FreeRepublic, but for the life of my I can’t imagine why any intelligent American would willingly put his life at risk on behalf of a government as corrupt and fouled up as ours is right now. It’s been this way for years.
Three dead Americans in Jordan. Three more reasons for the US to pull out of the Middle East and let the warring nations, tribes, sects, and factions kill each other off as they have been doing since and before Islam appeared in the 7th century. We can and should be energy independent from the Middle East. Let Europeans, Chinese, and Indians work on the dream of peace in the region for a while.
It’s a Catch-22. We need the best in our military. Problem is, under a leadership that is counter to the very principles that our country was founded on, we not only destroy these principles but we also imperil the souls of those who serve faithfully. Military service is not only about carrying out one’s duty faithfully, but what that service was on behalf of. It’s unambiguous regarding a soldier who died in The Battle of the Bulge or Okinawa. But a U.S. SOF soldier killed in Syria?? I’ll forgo pointing all of the problems with latter because I think we all know.
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The soldiers were killed because our stupid government is taking sides over which team of Islam should win where ... for the moment. Thousand year old civil war between Islam Team A and Islam Team B (plus probably hundreds of sub-sects of each).
Yes, that too. The wording bothered me.
They were over in a hostile region taking sides in a civil war. The soldiers were not at fault but their commanders and our political leaders are.
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