Travis, Well, I TOLD you Bush fucked up.
On Feb 22, 1:59 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > * * > February 20, 2010 > *How Muslims Defeated the United States* > > <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php> > > From the desk of *Diana > West*<http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1240/A-Soldier-Speaks-...> > > Today, I am posting an extraordinary letter from a soldier currently > stationed in Iraq, a sometime penpal of mine to whom I sent my three-part > series, *“Victory” in Iraq? > Really?*<http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/12/31/victory_in_iraq_r...>, > on the aftermath of the surge to elicit his opinion. Knowing how thoughtful > he is, I expected a substantive response. Given his time constraints alone, > I did not expect an essay of this scope and I decided, with his permission, > to present it here. It is unlike any commentary I have read from Iraq; it is > both coolly reasoned and deeply passionate, and *certain to challenge and > disturb readers across the political spectrum: PC-believing liberals, > Iraq-as-success-believing conservatives, Islam-as-a-religion-of-peaceniks of > both Left and Right.* > > So be it. > > He writes: > > I apologize for the delay in my response. I have been putting in long days … > lately and I hadn’t had the time to put the thought and effort into writing > this until now. > > Your three-part column series wonderfully analyzes Iraq and reaches the > correct strategic assessment that no one in power wants to acknowledge. > > I have many things that I want to say but I do not wish to waste your time > and I therefore put an executive summary at the beginning of this e-mail so > you can skip the expanded version if you wish. > > ***** > > *You correctly assessed that we have not gained anything positive from our > efforts in Iraq and that the nation is not our ally.* (The same is true for > Afghanistan.) I will go as far as saying that the Iraqis are our > enemies—enemies better equipped to wage jihad against us than they have ever > been. *We will regret what we have done. We will regret that we created this > officially Islamic nation. And we will regret that we created an officially > Islamic Afghanistan. We will regret that we have placed ourselves in the > service of Islam, waging jihad worldwide as we advance the Religion of Peace > and eliminate Christians in the process. (So much for the accusation that > the U.S. is on a “Crusade.”) It is a shame that so many people refuse to > recognize how horrible Islam is, and that the U.S. made a fatal mistake when > it refused to declare war against Afghanistan and Islam—when it refused > victory by binding the greatest military force of all time.* > > *The Full Analysis:* > > Parts 1 and 2 of “The ‘Surge’ and ‘Success’” correctly identify that we have > gained nothing positive for our efforts in Iraq while the Iraqis have > betrayed us. I do not trust any Iraqi or Middle Easterner. I do not care if > anyone calls me a “racist” or “bigot” anymore. Those words have lost their > meaning. Do I think that every single Iraqi or Middle Easterner is bad? No. > But I think it is difficult to tell. An Iraqi or Middle Easterner will smile > to your face or be your best friend one moment, and cut your head off in the > next. It is odd that so many people cannot comprehend this. It is even > weirder that those who pride themselves on being “culturally aware” cannot > grasp that Middle Eastern culture and thought, and Islamic behavior and > thought are completely different than ours (than ours on the Right, at > least). Perhaps this ignorance partially explains why the U.S. had no > reaction when Maliki declared victory over the U.S. when we moved out of the > major Iraqi cities. But even if it is a partial explanation it still is no > excuse. > > The Iranian War in Iraq is a travesty and has been since it started under > Bush. I still cannot believe that a nation can war against us and murder > Servicemen, and not pay the price of oblivion for it. Our nation sits back > and apologizes, and defends itself constantly from accusations of an > “illegal” and “unjust” war yet Iranians, other foreign terrorists, and even > Iraqis go about murdering American troops without any consequence > whatsoever. We should war back against them. But we won’t. > > I remember when people said that we had brought on the September 11 attacks > because “we created Bin Laden.” I never understood that. In fact, that we > had helped the Afghanis defeat the Soviet Union should have been even more > reason for us to kill Bin Laden and destroy Afghanistan. We had saved their > lives and they repaid us for it by murdering us on our own soil. Yet our > government refused its God-given duty to its people to mete out punishment > and justice. History repeats with Iraq. The Iraqis lived under oppression > for decades and when we liberated their nation they repaid our unimaginable > mercy and sacrifice with betrayal. It is sickening. > > Part 3 (“Victory” in Iraq? Really?) perfectly summarized where the U.S. is > now in our “war” in Iraq. Once we made Iraq an officially Islamic country I > knew that it would become among our worst enemies. (The same is true for > Afghanistan.) I said years ago that the end result of our efforts will be > that Iraq will be a rebuilt nation better prepared than ever to wage jihad > against us. You cannot create an officially Islamic nation and expect > anything less. Regrettably, our leaders and our nation cannot identify Islam > for what it is: evil. And so we continue our suicidal practice. The Iraqi > betrayal of the U.S. started sooner than I expected it but I expected it > nonetheless. This is outrageous. Yet the situation is even more unjust than > this. > > Muslims have waged jihad against the West since their insane, pedophiliac > founder started their cult; they have waged jihad against the U.S. since our > inception. But what is worse about our policy of establishing officially > Islamic nations and pouring money, technology, weapons, and training into > them is that we have been labeled as “occupiers” being on a “Christian > crusade to wipe out Islam.” Think about that. We have been demonized as > “occupying Christian crusaders” (if only!) even as we have waged jihad in > the service of Islam, helped Muslims spread Islam and wipe out Christians, > and died for ungrateful Iraqis even as terrorists from all over the war > invaded and occupied Iraq, and slaughtered and oppressed Iraqis. (And don’t > even get me started on the fact that we—the United States of America—are > truly being invaded and occupied by illegal aliens warring on us!) > > I am woefully understating the situation when I say that the U.S. has no > clue how to fight wars any longer. We have allowed our enemies to control > this war and make it one of media and information—information warfare / > information operations . We have chosen not to win by refusing to reject the > enemies’ preferred warfare; we have chosen not to wage a kinetic warfare > where we could easily defeat our enemies in months if not weeks with our > superior technology, tactics, and Servicemen. And through it all we seem not > the least bit embarrassed that a “coalition” of dozens of nations cannot > beat a primitive bunch of troglodytes. I no longer can express my outrage > about this or any of the myriad horrors which plague our once great land. > Every day there is something new which is more perverse and inequitable than > the last day’s wickedness. I sit here in Iraq and do all I can do to stomach > the disastrous excuse that passes for “strategy” in this war—a strategy > where our leaders openly say that the lives of our Islamic enemies are worth > more than ours; a “strategy” where the Army Chief of Staff openly states > that the “death of diversity” would be a larger tragedy than the slaughter > of Soldiers (and get away with it with but a whisper of outcry from the > American people). I pray that I get out of here alive so I can complete my > Army contract and get away from this nonsense and betrayal. > > Two final things. > > First, I wonder how many people have considered how successful the September > 11, 2001 Islamic attacks were. Think about what they accomplished. They > thrust Islam to the center of the world; they undoubtedly caused more people > to learn about Islam than would have prior to their attacks. And the attacks > combined with the near non-response of the U.S. doubtlessly gained them > converts. Furthermore, what response the United States did produce resulted > in the establishment, enrichment, and training of the officially Islamic > nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the enrichment and training of > countless other Muslim nations around the globe. Islam now stands better > suited than ever to wage jihad across the world. The September 11 attacks > also resulted in Muslims being portrayed as victims around the world (thanks > to their leftist allies) and helped them (again, with an assist from their > leftist allies) advance their jihad even as Muslims and leftists further > vilified Christianity, America, and Western values. And finally the crowning > achievement of the September 11 Islamic attacks: eight years after them the > United States places as its leader a person whom can at best be described as > an anti-American, racist, Islamic sympathizer (and who has the same name as > an infamous Islamic dictator). This is stunning. It is bizarre. It is > incomprehensible. Yet it is our nightmarish reality. The Islamic attacks on > September 11, 2001 achieved success beyond the wildest dreams of the > Religion of Peace cultists. > > Finally, I would like you to know that I am willing to comment on other > posts and articles that you publish, including some of your other posts that > mention the debate that your three-part column on the Surge started. I am > willing to comment for two reasons. > > The first reason is that everyone on the Right needs to fight back against > the Islamic War on the West and stop the jihad. And one of the ways to fight > back is to speak out against it. The second reason is that I want to > establish for posterity that I am firmly against this evil and every other > evil. I will explain why this matters. > > Leftists always rewrite history so as to demonize what is Right and so as to > cover their real nature. They abhor the truth as much as the vilest of > Muslims. And as a way to enable their rewriting of history they use > political correctness to silence opponents; to vilify them so that they have > no place in society. We have allowed leftists to use political correctness > to emasculate us. In fact, political correctness is the leftist weapon of > choice in paralyzing the Right and aiding their Islamic allies who also > advance an anti-Christian, anti-Foundational America agenda. Political > correctness is what prevents us from fighting back against the left, and > what prevents us from fully fighting back against the jihad and ending the > Islamic threat. Political correctness makes us acquiesce to the left so as > to be “moderate” and “bipartisan.” Our capitulation to the left will doom us > physically by allowing the Muslims and left to eliminate the last vestiges > of the West and it will doom us historically as our enslaved descendants > will look back and ask how we could have allowed the twin insanities of > Islam and the left to control and destroy us when we easily could have > defeated them both. Our descendants will condemn us for remaining idle in > the face of evil . . . and the leftists of the future will use our > submission and our descendants’ condemnation to manipulate history and blame > us as the originators of the horrific agenda that they instituted. The > future left will use our sinful surrender to pave the way for them to > control and destroy civilization once more (all in the name of > “progressivism” of course). > > I do not want leftists to be able to do this. I do not want them to easily > rewrite history in the future. I want to be a loud voice (wherever I may be) > that opposes everything Islam and the left want. I want there to be no doubt > that I, a Right-wing Christian, utterly reject them and their core beliefs. > I want to make it all but impossible for future leftists to say that, “It > was the Christian Right who enabled and supported the worldwide jihad (not > to mention the global warming hoax, the sexual perverts, and the freedom > hating communists)! It was the Christian Right who wanted them to take over > and destroy the world!” I want to make it all but impossible for future > leftists to say that atheists, humanists, and secularists (like Bruce Bawer, > Christopher Hitchens, Tammy Bruce, and a few others) tried to oppose the > Islamic War on the West but “could not convince the mentally inferior but > numerically superior Right-wing Christians to join them!” I want to > counteract the in-name-only Christians and conservatives who have bought > into the “Religion of Peace” and leftist nonsense, and who will do untold > additional amounts of damage to civilization and our good name with their > cravenness and rejection of Truth. And that is why I am willing to comment > on more of your posts. > > I know I am in the minority with my beliefs but I do not care. I want to be > like the 300—not just the ones who fought at Thermopylae—but the 300 who > fought with Gideon against the Midianites. I want to stand for the Truth. > > Keep up the good work. > > Sincerely, > > A US soldier in Iraq > > button1-share.gif > < 1KViewDownload -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
