Analyst's note: Absolutely must read and carefully consider. Do you ever wonder how we got into the military situation we see unfolding today? John Bernard, a retired Marine First Sergeant, provides the needed insight. He points out that if an enemy is not assessed accurately, either due to ignorance or for politically correct reasons, it will always be more difficult to defeat that enemy.
Our troops -- members of our American family -- continue to bleed and die unnecessarily. Our nation remains in great peril as the result of faulty "situation assessments" that lead to employing the Counter Insurgency (COIN) strategy for combat operations against our global Islamist jihadist enemy. Political correctness and the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood operating in our country today continue to blind and tether the United States. I for one have grown tired of ignorant "civilian experts" in federal positions and academics who are killing our troops just as surely as if they were pulling the trigger or setting the IEDs themselves.
[....] The confluence of decades of academic socialist indoctrination, the watering down of the truth of Islam, the tearing down of the American ideal and the decision to use operatives from the Muslim Brotherhood as advisors conspired to insure we would fail [...] And this has colored our entire understanding of how and when we should engage this enemy.
[....] when academics began telling us that Islam was a 'peaceful' religion only 'seeking God', wisdom and dealing with the inner struggle (jihad), that in a century, our entire country would view Islam as just another religion. Of course, history and the extraneous writings of the Islamic Scholars tell us different. The actions of the true soldiers of Islam, tell us different. The actions/inaction of the 'innocent' population in Afghanistan tell us something different. So how is it that we could so profoundly bumble what should have been a fairly simple mission there? With the strongest, best trained, best equipped military machine ever assembled in the history of mankind, how is it that we seem to have been halted by so primitive a force? Faulty assessment.
[....] The confluence of decades of academic socialist indoctrination, the watering down of the truth of Islam, the tearing down of the American ideal and the decision to use operatives from the Muslim Brotherhood as advisors conspired to insure we would fail at this juncture of the planning phase of the war. And this has colored our entire understanding of how and when we should engage this enemy. [....]"
Please click on the title above and read the entire article to consider a situation that has yet to be properly assessed by the "authorities." This is yet another opportunity for American citizens to "stand up and be counted" or continue to discover we and those whom we love are DIPs (dead in place). Semper Fidelis.
