MG Vernon Chong,
USAF writes: This WAR is for REAL
To get out of a difficulty, one usually
must go through it. Our country
is now facing the most serious threat to its
existence, as we know it,
that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which
includes WWII).
The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact
that there are
very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and
even fewer
who realize what losing really means.
First, let's examine
a few basics:
1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say
September 11th, 2001. The answer as far as the United
States is concerned is
1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the
following attacks on
us:
. Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
. Beirut, Lebanon Embassy
1983;
. Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
. Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am
flight to New York 1988;
. First New York World Trade Center attack
1993;
. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
.
Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
. Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy
1998;
. Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
. New York World Trade Center
2001;
. Pentagon 2001.
(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001
there were 7,581
terrorist attacks worldwide).
2. Why were we
attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The
attacks
happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan,
Bush
1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans
or
Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents
or
their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
3. Who
were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out
by Muslims.
4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.
5.
Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not
material. There is no doubt that the
predominately Christian population of
Germany was peaceful, but under
the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was
also Christian), that made
no difference. You either went along with the
administration or you were
eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians
killed by the Nazis for
political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests).
(see
http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm).
Thus, almost the same
number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as
the six million holocaust
Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom
heard of anything other than the
Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept
the world focused on the Jews, he had
no hesitancy about killing anyone
who got in his way of exterminating the
Jews or of taking over the world
- German, Christian or any
others.
Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US,
but
kill all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French or
anyone
else. The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of
no
protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful
Muslims
there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist
Muslim
leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their
own
pronouncements -- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame
the
peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or
die?
6. So who are we at war with?
There is no way we can honestly
respond that it is anyone other than the
Muslim terrorists. Trying to be
politically correct and avoid
verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal.
There is no way to win if
you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you
are fighting.
So with that background, now to the two major
questions:
1. Can we lose this war?
2. What does losing really
mean?
If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal
questions.
We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may
sound, the
major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not
fathom the
answer to the second question - What does losing mean?
It
would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means
hanging
our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our
business, like
post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can
get. What losing
really means is:
We would no longer be the premier country in the world.
The attacks will
not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember,
they want us
dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they
would not
have produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the
past
18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until
we
were neutered and submissive to them.
We would of course have no
future support from other nations, for fear
of reprisals and for the reason
that they would see, we are impotent and
cannot help them.
They will
pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will
be increasingly
easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It
doesn't matter whether
it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its
troops from Iraq. Spain did
it because the Muslim terrorists bombed
their train and told them to withdraw
the troops. Anything else they
want Spain to do will be done. Spain is
finished.
The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is
that they
might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are
finished
too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without
us.
However, it may already be too late for France. France is already
20%
Muslim and fading fast!
If we lose the war, our production,
income, exports and way of life will
all vanish as we know it. After losing,
who would trade or deal with us,
if they were threatened by the
Muslims.
If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else?
The
Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are
completely
committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and
be likewise
committed to winning at any cost.
Why do I go on at such lengths about
the results of losing? Simple.
Until we recognize the costs of losing, we
cannot unite and really put
100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning.
And it is going to take
that 100% effort to win.
So, how can we lose
the war?
Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding."
That
is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and
their
purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the
war
effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If
we
continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win!
Let me
give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the
life and death
seriousness of this situation.
President Bush selects Norman Mineta as
Secretary of Transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were
committed by Muslim men
between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta
refuses to allow
profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing
seriously? This
is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up
some of the
civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be
prepared to
lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most
certainly lose
all of them permanently.
And don't worry that it is a
slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil
rights during WWII, and
immediately restored them after the victory and
in fact added many more since
then.
Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before
him?
No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of
our
Political Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this
conflict
and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply
to
war. Get them out of your head.
Some have gone so far in their
criticism of the war and/or the
Administration that it almost seems they
would literally like to see us
lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because
they are disloyal. It is
because they just don't recognize what losing means.
Nevertheless, that
conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are
divided and
weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great damage to
our
cause.
Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the
politicians and media
regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war,
perhaps exemplifies
best what I am saying.
We have recently had an
issue, involving the treatment of a few Muslim
prisoners of war, by a small
group of our military police.
These are the type prisoners who just a few
months ago were throwing
their own people off buildings, cutting off their
hands, cutting out
their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people
just for
disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.
And just a few years ago
these same type prisoners chemically killed
400,000 of their own people for
the same reason. They are also the same
type enemy fighters, who recently
were burning Americans, and dragging
their charred corpses through the
streets of Iraq.
And still more recently, the same type enemy that was
and is providing
videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading
of American
prisoners they held.
Compare this with some of our press
and politicians, who for several
days have thought and talked about nothing
else but the "humiliating" of
some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not
dragging their charred
corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but
"humiliating" them.
Can this be for real?
The politicians and
pundits have even talked of impeachment of the
Secretary of
Defense.
If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension
and
understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the
life
and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing
this
war, nothing can.
To bring our country to a virtual political
standstill over this
prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his
fiddle as Rome burned
-- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real
world.
Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal
strife.
Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or
media
people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely
oblivious
to the magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the
Muslim
terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.
Remember, the
Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels!
That translates into
all non-Muslims -- not just in the United States,
but throughout the
world.
We are the last bastion of defense.
We have been criticized
for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge
is valid in at least one
respect. We are arrogant in that we believe
that we are so good, powerful and
smart, that we can win the hearts and
minds of all those who attack us, and
that with both hands tied behind
our back, we can defeat anything bad in the
world!
We can't!
If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know
it will not survive,
and no other free country in the World will survive if
we are defeated.
And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the
world that allow
freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion,
freedom of
the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal
status
or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single
way
that contributes to the good of the world.
This has been a long
way of saying that we must be united on this war or
we will be equated in the
history books to the self-inflicted fall of
the Roman Empire. If, that is,
the Muslim leaders will allow history
books to be written or read.
If
we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims
take
over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to
increase the
Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little
by little, on the
established French traditions. The French will be
fighting among themselves,
over what should or should not be done, which
will continue to weaken them
and keep them from any united resolve.
Doesn't that sound eerily
familiar?
Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by
some
external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms
away,
politically correct piece by politically correct piece.
And they
are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown,
worldwide, that they
abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even
to themselves, once they
are in power.
They have universally shown that when they have taken over,
they then
start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who
control
the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically
correct,
about the "peaceful Muslims"?
I close on a hopeful note, by
repeating what I said above. If we are
united, there is no way that we can
lose. I hope now after the election,
the factions in our country will begin
to focus on the critical
situation we are in, and will unite to save our
country. It is your
future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to
preserve it.
After reading the above, we all must do this not only for
ourselves, but
our children, our grandchildren, our country and the
world.
Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and
that
includes the Politicians and media of our country and the free
world!
Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it.
Our
"leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too.
There are those that
find fault with our country, but it is obvious to
anyone who truly thinks
through this, that we must UNITE!