Understanding the Atrocities of the Enemy
My fellow structure Club blogger Wes was kind decent to point out the latest outrage perpetrated by our enemy in Iraq. Sadly, final months slaughter was the largest massacre (over five hundred killed) yet perpetrated by al-Qaeda and their affiliates and allies since 9-11 .
It was al- Zarqawi’s (actually fairly brilliant) plan to perpetuate dramatic slaughters, atrocities, and outrages to forment ethnic and sectarian violence in Iraqi society. His plan for the most part has succeeded and many have bought it hook, line and sinker, blame Bush for it, and turn defeatist considering of it.
The brutal strategy of the Islamic fascists to turn the fissures in Iraqi society into the chasms we see nowadays largely succeeded and overturned many of the early successes that we had seen in Iraq.
The various al-Qaeda affiliated groups have got to love it. They are in for the enlarged haul, have a plan, and the sheer enthusiast determination to see it through to the end. The US and its allies, well, perhaps not so much.
Far too many folks wring their hands and grind their teeth everytime the al-Qaeda types strike instead of doing (and supporting) every opportunity to kill them, smash them, and send them on to get their reward from Allah as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, it is painful to have to mention that the contemporary day Copperheads actually seem to have no problem just handing Iraq by to them, right here and right now, with no qualms. whether you think the situation on the ground in Iraq is not good now, just wait and see what happens soon after.
Major attacks are down some 50 percent in Iraq since the surge went into full swing and the effects of the surge are being felt. War is hell, but only one side can be left standing, and I for one think it should be us.whether there was any instance to ‘double down’ in Iraq it is now. Throwing in your cards at that stage of the game is simply not a sane or fair option.
The ideological enemy we fight is a vicious and brutal one. Killing infidels, apostates, crusaders and zionists of one stripe or another is their sport; whether they be Jews, Christians, Shiites or obscure sects like the Yazidi’s. It’s all just part of a day’s work for those who go to bed at night dreaming of Shariah law and the reestablishment of the Caliphate.
You may not have supported the invasion of Iraq, the removing of Saddam from ability, or be particularly pleased with the current state of battlefield Iraq. But the enemy is there, the fight is there, and the War on Islamic fundamentalism is being fought there. Coulda, woulda, shoulda gets you absoulutely nothing and whether you try to fight and win worldwide wars by gazing backwards half a decade you will lose on every front. Living in the past will not supply dividends for the future. Defeatism, pacifism, and blind hatred of your leaders will be the fastest path to actual defeat and capitulation. It is seductive, easy and historically has been ultimately fatal to those cultures who have embraced it.
To get up and leave Iraq like a child returning from recess is directly in line with the strategy, goals and wishes of the Islamic fascists and jihadists. By doing so we fall right into their hands. It’s
Despite the many crocodile tears being shed for the poor society of Iraq let us not forget that that is the most humane, politically right, restrained war that has ever been fought in history. The United States and its allies have killed far fewer non-combatants in five years fighting the War on terrorism all through the globe than we did in one good night of bombing in WWII. The huge majority of bloggers, political pundits and talking head are pitifully poor historians.
Many of us have been fairly harsh critics at one duration or another on the prosectution of the war (not the initial invasion which was incredibly successful) and the followup administration of the country, the unpreparedness for the insurgency, the virtual dismantling of the standing army, the de-Baathification program, the failure to secure the borders (sound familiar?), the reluctance to commit increasingly troops immediately when problems arose, concentration on the political situation first and foremost in Iraq instead of the military situation, and hesitancy in dealing with problem spots like Fallujah quickly and with overwhelming force (it took many months to finally eliminate Fallujah as a terrorist playground) etc.
There are many things that have been ‘wrong’ in that war as in all wars we have ever fought. But saying ‘you don’t play fair so I’m going home’ will not impress the Islamo-fascists one bit, will turn Iraq into a much increasingly dangerous, genocidal and vicious place, give a tremendous boost and victory to al-Qaeda and their affiliates, and allow our enemy to pursue us in their thousands to all the surrounding areas and eventually back domestic to the good ol’ USA.
I have enlarged predicted that the day will come when they manufacture a wave of ‘visits’ to malls, Wal-Marts, and film theaters approach you. They have been successfully distracted abroad for the final five years and abandoning Iraq to them will not solve one thing and only lead to a myriad of others. Mark my words, pandoras box has the lid cracked, let us not fling it wide open.
Bin Laden’s original Al-Qaeda is now increasingly of an view and role model than an actual functioning military organization and bin-Laden is increasingly of a figurehead than a military and political leader. But the hundreds of terrorist groups and independent cells all through the world carry on its letter, commit outrages in their name, share its goal and vision, and ally themselves with it at every opportunity. It is in disarray, but its allies and affiliates murder and maim with utter disregard for the most respect for humanity as a whole.
The citizens of Western Civilization must come to the realization that they are not an enemy that you can broker a peace treaty with or cede entire countries and regions too.
My fellow blogger DFV at structure Club perhaps summed it up best:
Lost in all of the fog of the Iraq war and the politics surrounding it, is the fundamental fact that the US is sacrificing enormously to give peace, freedom, and stability ti Iraqis, whil al Qaeda is desperate to present slaughterl, distress, and horror to a wide swath of completely harmless human beings. Never forget that fundamental fact.
Original post by David M. Huntwork

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