For years now I have been trying to alert my readers to the ugly truth behind the poorly named “War on Terror”, and finally you are going to see that idea dabbled with in a way that will come dangerously close to admitting the “unspeakable”: that we are actually in a war with Islam. Ted Koppel on the Discovery Channel will present:
Our Children’s Children’s War
Premieres Sunday, March 11, at 9 p.m. ET/PT
If you expect the War on Terror to end with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, or with the establishment of a stable government in Afghanistan, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. While the eyes of the world focus on those conflicts, the U.S. military is fighting an unconventional war that could last generations.
Widely known as the War on Terror, the outgoing commander of the U.S. military’s Central Command, Gen. John Abizaid, refers to it as “The Long War.” Ted Koppel presents an in-depth special report on a war that may last longer than any in which the U.S. has been involved before.
U.S. military officials point out that Al-Qaeda and other terror organizations are not thinking in terms of a campaign that will end in five, 10, or even 20 years. Instead, they are looking as far as 100 years into the future, and the U.S. has no choice but to do the same. In this special report, Koppel explores the challenges this prolonged struggle presents and how America’s military is trying to adapt. His interview with Gen. Abizaid is featured throughout the broadcast.
Koppel and his team of producers take viewers to Afghanistan, where the American military is fighting an increasingly powerful Taliban; to Djibouti, where the U.S. is building schools and digging wells; to Ethiopia, where the U.S. is training commandos while the war in next-door Somalia rages; and to North Carolina, where private military firm Blackwater USA is training military and civilian personnel for life on the front lines.
In Ted’s Words
The third chapter in this trilogy is something that the Pentagon calls “The Long War.” And what they’re really referring to is the battle against terrorism, which many of the leaders in the Pentagon now perceive as being an endless battle — one that may go on for 20 years, 30 years or more.So they have begun to preach the gospel that we have to adapt to this notion that we are in a permanent state of war, and that what we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Somalia and certain other parts of the world right now and the way that we are fighting this, this war, requires a certain level of adaptation and we have to adapt to these new realities.
So the 9/11 show and how it’s changed America, Iran and the influence that it’s exerting throughout the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, and the Long War, those are all, in a sense, three chapters of the same story.
The Long War. I’ll accept that name. At least it’s admitting something that’s true for once.
The Discovery Channel has a simple feature you may use to remind yourself of this premiere. I suggest you put it to use by clicking here:
There’s something they won’t tell you in this television special. The U.S. military has seen this problem coming since the 50’s. How do I know that? Well, there are some things even I won’t talk about in public, but trust me, I know.
Still think you’re being told the “whole story” by the the President?
Dance, dance, dance around the truth all they want to in the media and in Washington, but I’m showing you over and over what this conflict is, where it originated and where it’s headed. But you can’t handle the truth — at least, that’s what they are thinking in the U.S. government. Sadly, the truth is going to find us anyway. Funny how that works.
More evidence (only read if you are willing to accept the truth):
An unclassified version of “Fighting the Long War–Military Strategy for the War on Terrorism,” a PowerPoint presentation created by Pentagon planners in January 2006.
“The Long War” summarized by Washington Times, 2006:
Joint Chiefs of Staff planners have produced a 27-page briefing on the war on terror that seeks to explain how to win the “long war” and says Islamic extremists may be supported by 12 million Muslims worldwide.
Military planners worry that al Qaeda could win if “traditional allies prefer accommodation.”
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the document states, “is absolutely committed to his cause. His religious ideology successfully attracts recruits. He has sufficient population base from which to protract the conflict. … Even support of 1 percent of the Muslim population would equate to over 12 million ‘enemies.’ ”
Pakistan Daily Times editorial.
“National Strategy for Combating Terrorism,” a document released by President Bush in September, 2006.
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I downloaded and read the Joint Chiefs of Staff presentation and have some problems with it identifying Islam as ‘a divine religion’ that can’t be attacked ideologically, but with the idea in mind that attacking Islam shouldn’t be the work of the military anyway. It’s supposed to be other groups: archeolgists, historians, theologians, missionaries, people with ‘common sense’, political leaders, members of the press, writers, intellectuals and scholars to name a few. The military shouldn’t be waging the ideological campaign… that should be left to other divisions in the executive branch.
Another problem I see in the Pentagon presentation can be found in the idea that the military should do what it can to protect and encourage moderate forces in the Islamic world. Putting military resources to this goal is a waste and mistake. Leave that to other forces.
The military should focus on identifying targets, closing with them, destroying them and eliminating their support systems. That’s about it.
Moderates in Islam will always lose. The reason being that, as apostate writer Ibn Warraq says, ‘there may be moderate muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate.’ Mohammed was not moderate. The history of the Islamic conquest and Caliphate adminstration shows Islam to be immoderate.
Here’s a brief op/ed on the Myth of the Moderate Muslim:
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Moderate Unicorns
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In medieval times, people created fairy tales and magical creatures to make sense of their world. One of the most endearing is the unicorn, a horse with a single horn that symbolized purity and wholesomeness. In our modern times, people in Europe and the United States consider themselves more sophisticated and rational than people from the Middle Ages, but we still create myths, albeit more subtle ones.
Daily we hear reports of violent acts committed by Islamic terrorists on every inhabited continent. We try to wish it away with the wand of the ‘Moderate Muslim’, telling ourselves the Islamic agenda has been’ hijacked’ by a ‘tiny minority of extremists’ and that soon the huge, silent, moderate majority of Muslims will take charge and change things. However, post 9/11 very few Muslims have condemned terrorist actions. We are still waiting for moderates to stand and deliver, identifying and removing extremist thugs from mosques and their communities. Waiting for this self-correction is our modern version of unicorn hunting.
Moderate Muslims will not be able to wrest control of the agenda for several reasons. Mohammed, the Messenger of Allah’s eternal word, was not moderate. How can any moderate legitimately tell another Muslim not to do what Mohammed himself did? Also, the Qur’an condones violence and coercion to further the Islamic agenda. People whom we call moderates are labeled hypocrites by Allah Himself in the Qur’an. Moderates will always lose the argument because, as ex-Muslim author Ibn Warraq says, “There may be moderates in Islam but Islam itself is not moderate.”
Islamic expert Daniel Pipes and others estimate ten percent of the Islamic world to be militant. In 1933 when the Nazi party took control of Germany it had 2 million members, comprising only three percent of Germany’s sixty-six million citizens. A tiny minority of extremists can control a vast number of moderates, making them irrelevant.
Placing hope in ‘The Moderate Muslim’ is like searching for unicorns in the forest.