Tuesday, October 06, 2009

 

Lessons of History

The time has come for an average citizen to stand up and remind the powers that be in Washington of an important fact: You need to hire a military historian to tell you to wake up.

The previous occupiers of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue didn't have one on staff, or if they did, they never listened to him/her. This is what brought us 9/11. I remember every spokesperson for the former Governor of Texas bleating on and on about how "nobody could have predicted that the terrorists would use airplanes as missiles." This phrase was used at least a dozen times per day on every news outlet they could get their faces on. If this statement was true, then the obvious conclusion must be that the Bush administration was either too naive or too stupid to rule. This is also a statement that anyone who knows me will recall hearing me say since 9/12.

This is how I came to that conclusion-

Item #1: In John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" the opening scene is terrorists hijacking Air Force One and intentionally crashing it into Manhattan. This film was made in 1981. So someone thought of it twenty years earlier than the true event.

Item #2: Hassan Ibn Al Sabbah. Does this name sound familiar? I have known of this man since 1973. Who was he? A fundamentalist Muslim extremist who founded the Order of Assassins. This is the man who pioneered the strategy of the suicide attacker. He lived 950 years ago. This strategy of battle has been in Muslim culture for nearly a millennium. I'd say that's pretty well ingrained. Suicide attackers have been part of the landscape in the modern Middle-East since the late 1960s, and anyone who can read a newspaper should know that.

If the strategists at the White House, the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Administration couldn't figure this out ahead of time, then they were too stupid to have the jobs they had. I believe that these people are not stupid. This leaves us with one conclusion. They were lying to the American People, hoping that nobody would notice how they were huge fuck-ups. Well, I noticed, along with a few others.

This brings us to today's news item: That President Obama has ruled out a large reduction in American forces in Afghanistan. Let me once again suggest to this man I voted for in hopes that he would bring change to The White House. Hire yourself a military historian. Once you do, listen to him or her.

No foreign force has ever held Afghanistan. Ever. Afghanistani tribesmen have always driven out invading forces successfully since the days of Alexander the Great. The tribal groups there, always regarded by outsiders as backward and inferior, have owned that stretch of mountains and dirt for 6000 years, and they will continue to own it. What they lack in technology and material they more than make up with in desire and willingness to die for the ground they stand on. This is why they eventually defeated Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, The Ottoman Empire, The British Empire, and the Soviet Union. Keep it up, Mr. President, and we can join that list.

A military historian will tell you, Mr. President, that home born guerrilla fighters will always eventually defeat an occupying force. The Vietnamese defeated the French and then the U.S. Hell, we don't even have to look overseas- just go to any public school in the country and take an American History class, Mr. President. The Colonists were a backwards, under equipped rag-tag force that took down the British Army and established The United States of America.

Remember your history, Mr. President. If you want to find the money to pass health care and slow out of control spending and economic calamity, bring the troops home.

We have seen time and time again that stopping terrorists is most effective with good police work. Let the investigative agencies do the work they do best. The greatest successes in stopping the terrorists happened in the last few weeks, and would have happened if the FBI had listened to the reports of Middle-Eastern men in flight schools that had no interest in learning how to take off or land, but only how to control a plane in flight.

You must do what is best for the people of the U.S.A. and not what is best for your image among Republicans who don't give a rat's ass for you or anything you stand for.
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