The next president we elect has to scare
half the world. The half who hates us! And it has to be done to preserve a
true peace with our freedoms and unalienable rights
intact.
Since 9/11/2001 we have
spent$1.461,780,254,414 on the wars on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. When you
add in indirect costs that figure grows to $2.4 trillion because we borrowed
money to fight these wars We have lost 6,745 in this effort to date and we have
suffered 51,303.wounded and all of this will
cost us more money down through the years because that is the terrible nature of
war.
Despite all of this we are no closer to
ending the scourge of Islamic terror then we were on 9/12/2001, no matter what
Obama says.
The recent jailbreaks and release
programs in seven Islamic countries plus our own idiotic releases of detainees
from "Gitmo" and the Jihadists in Syria have put up to 17,000 potential
mujahadin or shaheeds back on the battlefield or ready for acts of
terror.
This and the false narrative that Al
Quaeda is "on the run"has directly led to a potential month long close down of
19 embassies from the Maghreb to the Levant to Central Asia and sub-Saharan
Africa.
12 years after the WTC, we still disgrace
ourselves by by our abject surrender of our 4th amendment rights at airports and
public buildings by taking off our shoes, our belts and worse to a policy that
can best be described as safety via humiliation. They do everything but put us
in restraints and whip us and then we snicker when we learn that the most
popular read at "Gitmo" by the prisoners today is "50 Shades of
Grey"!
We leave Iraq precipitously and plan to
do the same in Afghanistan knowing the battle is not over and the war is not won
making our sacrifice of blood and treasure a mockery.
According to the Obama administration
Major Hasan, a soldier of Allah, committed acts of workplace violence not of
terror even though he admitted the same in the name of Allah and thereby the
families of those he killed and those he wounded are denied vital benefits
because we do not want to acknowledge that Islamic terror here or abroad is
real.
Since WW II, we have not fought a major
war in order to achieve total victory and we have paid a heavy price for this .
Viet Nam became a PC war and every war thereafter became a worse PC war. Only
"Operations Desert Shield and Operation Desert Sword" seemed to escape this
fate due in no small part to the decision not to take out Saddam Hussein at a
time when Iran, Russia and China and al Quaeda were not nearly as strong as they
became directly before and during the years after 2001.
When war becomes politically correct,
judgements of good and evil become "verboten" and so do. by extension, the
concept of destroying evil by complete and final victory.
We and the world need the Jihadist/
Salafist/ Wahabist/ Iranian goal of a world wide Caliphate by militant Islam to
be completely and utterly destroyed. Their adherents need to be destroyed,
their enablers need to be destroyed, their funders need to be destroyed, their
fellow travelers on the progressive left need to be destroyed and the countries
who harbor these monsters and allow their terror to grow and fester must be put
on notice that if they continue doing this, they too will be
destroyed!
No American or any other freedom loving
person should be put in harms way if the goal and objective of the fight is not
total victory!
This does not mean that our strength
should lie in a desire to kill our enemies because we have the power and means
to, but rather it should reside in their absolute belief that we will do so
even against our values and our nature and our morality if they continue to try
to either enslave or kill us.
We now face multiple enemies in multiple
theatres of war. Some like the terrorists want to wage asymmetrical wars of
attrition designed to make us surrender our liberties for a false sense of
security. When we do this they win.
Others are more conventional nation/state
enemies like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran who often operate against us
via proxy belligerents or economic warfare. Some of these
nation/states support terrorism because it meets their objectives. They too
must understand that that the U.S. and the other democracies need them to stand
down or be obliterated because their actions represent an existential threat to
human rights and human freedom.
Any act of weakness on our part...apology
tours... imaginary red lines with imaginary consequences...unilateral
disarmament...man caused disasters... overseas contingency operations...caving
in to threats when our national security and those of our allies are imperiled
by our inaction or our acquiescence...withdrawal from the struggle by leading
from behind... all signal our mortal enemies that we have retreated, surrendered
and worse that this President actually believes what they say about
us.
The entire world understands that the
free world can extricate itself from its dependency on energy from those who
wish to conquer them and sees only weakness when the free world declines to do
so.
We are not a war mongering people no
matter what the freedom hating left or the Jihadists or the Communists say. Our
freedom however has been bought with both blood and resolve. Blood without
resolve is obscene and resolve without unfortunately the potential of blood is
a fairy tale for children.
"Is vis pacem, para bellum" said Publius
Flavius Vegetius Renatus... "if you want peace, prepare for war". I would only
add to prepare for war to subdue and vanquish our enemies and all those who
would aide and assist them. They do not understand anything but brute force and
the unshakable will to use it as a last resort.
And when they try to use our own values
against us, it would be wise for both us and them to remember that freedom of
speech ends when you yell fire in a crowded theater and freedom of religion ends
when you yell Jihad in a crowded Mosque!
The next President has to by his or her
acts, words or deeds scare the hell out of those who hate us and want us
dead. The only ones who the next president needs to fear and respect are we the
people whose servant he or she will be. It is way past the time to remind
ourselves and our foes that war is hell but the phoney peace that has been
inflicted on us by us is worse. Freedom without real liberties, a phoney
security and a sword over your neck is just another name as the song says "for
nothing left to lose".
ERLANDSSON
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