Yes America, It’s a World WarPosted on 7/23/2006, 3:41:09 AM by JDPendry
Yes America, It’s a World War
J. D. Pendry
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” - General Douglas MacArthur, 1952
Terrorism is not our enemy. Terrorism is the preferred tactic employed against the non-Islamic world by our enemy, the Islamic-Nazis. You cannot fight a war against a tactic. You can counter most tactics, but the only counter to terrorism is the complete destruction of the enemy that uses it. You don’t fight drugs. You fight drug dealers.
The Islamic-Nazis employ terror tactics like raining unguided ball-bearing filled rockets onto civilian populations. I don’t hear media or international calls for restraint on their part or any talk about the civilian casualties they cause – and we’re talking about a fight they picked and have picked each and every time. They start these fights because they know the international “community” will perform as usual by calling for a cease-fire, which allows them to crawl back into their rat holes, lick their wounds and regroup for more acts of terror. It’s been the cycle for too long. Now (using a relatively new buzz phrase) in a post 9/11 world, it’s time to end it.
The enemy uses terror as its means to influence populations through fear. Through terror, they hope to achieve war’s first objective – destroying your opponents will to fight. To paraphrase General MacArthur, when you don’t have the will to end it, don’t get in it. When terror tactics work, popular support for opposing the terrorists degrades. Then they begin to impose their will on the general population. That’s how the Taliban and Al-Qaeda did it and it’s how Hezbollah and Hamas are doing it. They’re not much for the clean, precision warfare modern military forces use. It wouldn’t serve their purposes. They want to inflict as many casualties as possible on a population, indiscriminately and with extreme prejudice. For as long as they’re allowed to do it.
Our value for life does not permit us to fight wars in the same manner as our enemy. They see that as a weakness, we view it as our strength. You can make the argument that our bombing campaigns against Japanese and German cities during World War II were terror campaigns that eventually destroyed the will of those populations to continue the fight. It would be a shallow argument, however, because there is much more to it than that. You must seek ways to degrade an enemy’s popular support, but when you cannot destroy his will to fight, you must destroy his capacity to fight. You must take way what enables him to continue. In World War II, we bombed the cities, but in so doing, we also destroyed the industrial complexes that produced the materials the enemy needed to continue the fight. When he no longer has the capacity to continue the fight, an enemy’s destruction is imminent.
When al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11, they had an entire country as a safe haven. The Taliban government, which harbored and supported al-Qaeda, ruled the Afghan people through absolute terror. We promptly took out that government and as a result scattered al-Qaeda. Although still an enemy, regardless what most media and select politicians would have you believe, we have severely degraded their capacity to operate against us and continue the fight. We will further hasten their end when our actions in politics and the media focus on killing them instead of enabling them.
Proportionality? It’s a term that does not fit into a war winning strategy. Response is proportionate when we win and they’re destroyed. One thing I find quite interesting is that liberal Americans using the proportionality argument are the same people who derided, and still do, President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld for not employing in Iraq the Powell doctrine of massive, overwhelming force to crush the enemy (country) quickly. We are where we are because of proportionality, restraint, land for peace…. Israel is in its current predicament because she did what the world asked. She showed restraint and gave up land for promises of peace. The result of diplomacy or negotiations with terrorists is that concessions made, while hoping for peace, are a sign to them of weakness. Hoping for peace or negotiating for peace with people who want to remove you from the face of the earth will not get you peace. Pounding the ever-loving snot out of terrorists probably won’t get it done either. Unless you remove what enables them to continue, they’ll be back. We need to dredge up the will to pound the snot out of those who enable – give the capacity to – the terrorists to continue.
The Tomahawk Cruise Missile is the world’s best long-range sniper weapon. They’re expensive bullets, but worth the price if they remove the enablers of terror from Tehran and Damascus. There is no need for us to fret over Iranian nuclear sites; we only need to remove the Islamic-Nazis who want to use nuclear weapons to terrorize us further. And, while we’re at it, Kim Jong Il can witness successful missiles firing.
If there is any doubt left in your mind that this is a World War that we’re in, review the speech of Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad 'Adel, made July 18, 2006. Yes America, It’s a World War and unless you’re an Islamic-Nazi, like it or not, you’re an Israeli.
Copyright © 2006 J.D. Pendry
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Proportionality? It’s a term that does not fit into a war winning strategy. Response is proportionate when we win and they’re destroyed.
Outstanding! Welcome aboard!
Absolutely correct that our battle isn't against terrorism, it's against the vile Islamic jihadists who use terrorism as their preferred tactic of influencing Western culture. Time to call a spade a spade.
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I agree with CM. As one FReeper noted in the MidEast Live thread for today, its not an "official" World War until France surrenders to somebody.
Well said.
Excellent piece and exactly right.
And despite our understandable preference to keep our war separate from Israel's, the fact is that they have become quite explicitly the same war. We confront the same enemy. In Iraq we face forces that are supplied and directed by Iran and Syria; they go by different names but the Israelis also face enemies supplied and directed by, who? Iran and Syria.
Our war is not over while those forces are still able to operate in Iraq, and they will not be defeated until they have been cut off from their godfathers over the border. Israel's war will never end while Hezbollah is able to operate in any country neighboring Israel. If they stop at the Litani River they have actually been defeated; all Hezbollah needs for a victory is to survive this assault. The situation requires something much more ambitious than a few forays into south Lebanon, this war is a failure if they do not clear out the Bekaa, it is a mere stopgap if they don't bring down the Assads.
The Assads are our problem and they are Israel's problem. The convergence of interests is probably what will keep us out of the war, however illogical it sounds, since we are still trying to pretend that our war is distinct from theirs for understandable reasons. But the two wars are the same war.
I have to admit I want to see Israel or better yet the US Marines seize the Bekaa Valley for a variety of reasons, and seizing the Bekaa means war with Syria. But we are already at war with Syria, we just prefer not to admit it.
Amen to that...and if we do not figure this out at the highest levels of our own government, we will face events similar to those described in the series of novels I wrote:
There was nothing proportional in what we did in World War II to defeat the Fascists anbd Imperialists. We face a danger even greater today when you add the potential of nuclear weapons.
You may not think it is a world war. The Islamo-Nazis, however, do. As once "the sun never set on the British Empire," the sun now never sets on the bastages wreaking havoc somewhere. "Remain[ing] vigilant" is just another word for waiting for it to happen again.
Amen.
There were no innocent civilians in Japan or Germany during WW-2. There are no 'innocent' Islamists now. Kill all the bastards.
"For as long as they're allowed..." That should wake up a few sitting on the fence. Great post.
Just ordered it.
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The powers that be in this nation, both parties, will never subscribe to this action. Therefore, this nation will be at war with terrorism till the end of time.
The Islamic world vs the U.S. and Israel, doesn't really rise to the level of a world war.
But I do not want our administration to even publicly recognize that we are at war with most if not all of Islam, for the simple reason that we have been able to go in and piecemeal this war, taking out one target at a time.
And I think that is a far better strategy that to declare war on Islam.
Interesting
Well, they burned Paris for a month, but nobody showed up for the cheese eatin surrender monkeys to surrender to. If they would have showed up, it would have been allah fromage.
In a press conference I saw some expert in international relations praise and congratulate Condi Rice on keeeping the Security Council members together. Last week they got agreement on a statement at the G8. And, they have obviously been working the Arabs. Bush may have annoyed people when he tiptoed through the tulips hand in hand with the king of Saudia Arabia in Crawford, but it paid off when king Abdulla reproached the adventures of Hezbollah. Not bad for a unilateralist, the one who referred to himself as a uniter not a divider. It must be like herding cats to achieve cooperation of so many different countries. Also, doesn't seem like the run up to worldwide conflagration, either.
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