For America to avoid permanent military entanglements in the Middle East, it must learn to mind its own business.
So says Michael Scheuer, a 20-year CIA veteran who, from 1996 to 1999, headed Alec Station, the CIA’s unit assigned to track Osama bin Laden at the agency’s Counterterrorism Center.
He’s also the author of two seminal works on America’s fight against terrorism: Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (2003) and Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq (2008).
Scheuer has repeatedly warned: The United States must not deploy troops in Syria.
More than 310,000 people have been killed in Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war. The conflict began on March 15, 2011, triggered by protests demanding political reforms and the ouster of dictator Bashar al-Assad.
And many members of Congress are demanding that “we must do something” to stop all that killing.
Among the reasons why America should steer clear of the Syrian tar-baby:
The Assad regime is backed by–-among others–the Iranian-supported terrorist group, Hezbollah (Party of God). Its enemies include another terrorist group–Al Qaeda.
Hezbollah is comprised of Shiite Muslims. A sworn enemy of Israel, it has kidnapped scores of Americans suicidal enough to visit Lebanon and truck-bombed the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983, killing 299 Americans.
Flag of Hezbollah
Al-Qaeda, on the other hand, is made up of Sunni Muslims. Besides plotting 9/11, It has attacked the mosques and gatherings of liberal Muslims, Shias, Sufis and other non-Sunnis.
Examples of these sectarian attacks include the Sadr City bombings, the 2004 Ashoura massacre and the April, 2007 Baghdad bombings.
Flag of Al Qaeda
When your enemies are intent on killing each other, it’s best to stand aside and let them do it.
Intervening in Syria could produce unintended consequences for American forces–and make the United States a target for more Islamic terrorism.
An American military strike on Syrian government forces could lead the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, to attack Israel–perhaps even with chemical weapons.
Assad could do this simply because he hates Jews–or to lure Israel into attacking Syria.
If that happened, the Islamic world–which lusts to destroy Israelis even more than “apostate” Muslims–would rally to Syria against the United States, Israel’s chief ally.
China and Russia are fully supporting the Assad dictatorship–-and the brutalities it commits against its own citizens.
This reflects badly on them–-not the United States.
And any move by the United States to directly attack the Assad regime could ignite an all-out war with Russia and/or China.
What happens if American and Russian forces start trading salvos? Or if Russian President Vladimir Putin orders an attack on Israel, in return for America’s attack on Russia’s ally, Syria?
It was exactly that scenario–Great Powers going to war over conflicts between their small-state allies–-that triggered World War l.
The United States cannot defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) through air power alone.
President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes against ISIL in September, 2014. Since then, the United States Air Force has dropped thousands of bombs on ISIL convoys.
This has not, however, destroyed ISIL. And its failure to do so has only led to demands by hawkish Republicans and Democrats for “boots on the ground.”
This was in fact predictable. Air power alone failed to secure victory over Nazi Germany during World War II and Vietnam during the Vietnam war. Nor did it “shock and awe” the Iraqis into surrendering during the 2003 Iraq war.
While Islamic nations like Syria and Iraq wage war within their own borders, they will lack the resources to launch attacks against the United States.
When Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, then-Senator Harry Truman said: “I hope the Russians kill lots of Nazis and vice versa.”
That should be America’s view whenever its sworn enemies start killing themselves off. Americans should welcome such self-slaughters, not become entrapped in them.
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During his September 28, 2014 appearance on 60 Minutes, President Obama admitted that the mostly Sunni-Muslim Iraqi army had refused to combat the Sunni army of ISIL.
Then followed this exchange:
Steve Kroft: What happens if the Iraqis don’t fight or can’t fight?
President Obama: Well…
Steve Kroft: What’s the end game?
President Obama: I’m not going to speculate on failure at the moment. We’re just getting started. Let’s see how they do….
It was precisely such a mindset that led the United States, step by step, into the Vietnam quagmire.
As in the case of Vietnam, the United States lacks:
- Real or worthwhile allies in Iraq or Syria;
- A working knowledge of the peoples it wants to influence in either country;
- Clearly-defined goals that it seeks to accomplish in that region.
America rushed to disaster in Vietnam because its foreign policy elite felt it had to “do something” to fight Communism anywhere in the world.
And it is continuing to rush toward disaster in the Middle East because its foreign policy elite once again feel is must “do something.”
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A WARNING FROM AESOP
In Bureaucracy, History, Military, Politics, Social commentary on September 9, 2015 at 12:03 amTens of thousands of Syrians are pouring into Europe, seeking escape from their fellow Islamics in Syria’s ongoing civil war.
And European countries–such as Germany, Italy and Greece–are throwing open their doors in welcome.
In the United States, 14 Democratic Senators are demanding that President Barack Obama admit at least 70,000 refugees.
That’s in addition to the 1,500 that America has taken in since the civil war began in 2011.
Prompting this is the international outcry over images of a three-year-old boy’s body lying face down on the surf on a Turkish beach.
The boy, Aylan Kurdi, his older brother Galip, five, and mother died while trying to reach Europe.
Amidst all this hand-wringing, it’s well to remember the famous Aesop’s fable about a snake and a farmer.
One snowy day, a farmer found a poisonous snake lying on a road, stiff and frozen with cold. Feeling sorry for the creature, he picked it up and placed it inside his coat in hopes of reviving it.
The snake, revived by the warmth, bit the farmer, mortally wounding him.
“Oh,” cried the farmer, “I should have known better than to pity a scoundrel.”
Decades from now, the descendants of these well-meaning Europeans may well have cause to remember that fable.
In his 2009 book, Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, Dr. Peter Hammond explored the impact of an increasing Muslim population non-Islamic societies.
Dr. Peter Hammond
And he vividly outlined the increasingly disruptive changes that can be expected to occur within those societies.
According to Hammond, Islam is not a religion nor a cult. It’s a complete system of religious, legal, political, ecnomic and military components.
The religious component encompasses all the others.
“Islamization” occurs when there are enough Muslims in a country to agitate for their “religious rights.”
Here’s how it works.
(Percentages are from CIA: The World Fact Book, 2015.)
So long as the Muslim population remains at or under 2%, they will act as a peaceful minority and pose no threat to non-Muslims. As in:
United States – Muslims 0.6%
China – Muslims 1.8%
Italy – Muslims 1.5%
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from jails and street gangs. This is happening in:
Australia – Muslim 2.2%
Canada – Muslim 3.2%
Denmark – Muslim 2%
Germany – Muslim 3.7%
Norway – Muslim 2.3%
United Kingdom – Muslim 4.4%
Spain – Muslim 4%
Thailand – Muslim 4.9%
From 5% of the population on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their numbers. They push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.
They increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves–along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
France – Muslim 7.9%
(On January 7, 2015, the worst terrorist act in France since World War II occurred when three Islamics slaughtered 12 people at a satirical magazine that had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed.
Guyana – Muslim 7.2%
Philippines – 5%
Sweden – Muslim 5%
Switzerland – 4.9%
The Netherlands – Muslim 4.9%
Trinidad and Tobago – Muslim 5%
At 5% of the population they work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia (Islamic law). The ultimate goal of Islamics is to establish Sharia law over the entire world–enforcing it on Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
When islamics approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of protest about their conditions.
Any non-Muslim action that offends their interpretation of Islam results in uprisings and threats, such as in Ansterdam, with opposition to Muhammed cartoons and films about Islam.
Such tensions are seen daily, especially in such countries as:
India – Muslim 14.2%
Israel – Muslim 17.5%
Kenya – Muslim 11.1%
Russia – Muslim 15%
After Islamics reach 20% of the population nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, formations of jihad militias, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, as in:
Ethopia – Muslim 33.9%
At 40% of the population, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia – Muslim 40%
Chad – Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon – Muslim 54.7%
From 60% on, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-Muslims (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing, use of Sharia law as a weapon and Jizya, the tqax placed on “infidels,” as in:
Albania – Muslim 56.7%
Malaysia – Muslim 61.3%
Qater – Muslim 77.5%
Sudan – Muslim 70%
United Arab Emirates – Muslim 76%
After Islamics comprise 80% of the population, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some state-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the “infidels” and move toward 100% Islamic. This is happening in:
Bangladesh – Muslim 89.5%
Egypt – Muslim 90%
Gaza – Muslim 99%
Indonesia – Muslim 87.2%
Iran – Muslim 99.4%
Iraq – Muslim 99%
Jordan – Muslim 97.2%
Morocco – Muslim 99%
Pakistan – Muslim 96.4%
Syria – Muslim 87%
Tajikistan – Muslim 90%
Turkey – Muslim 99.8%
When Islamics reach 100% of the population, “Dar-es-Salaam”–“The Islamic House of Peace”–reigns.
Everybody is a Muslim, the madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:
Afghanistan – Muslim 99%
Saudi Arabia – Muslim 100%
Somalia – Muslim 100%
Yemen – Muslim 99.1%
Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, because the most radical Muslim states wage war on more moderate ones.
Among the reasons for this: The centuries-old ethnic conflicts between majority Sunni and minority Shiite Muslims, now on lethal display in Iraq and Syria.
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Europeans are now offering asylum to tens of thousands of Islamics–whose religion directly conflicts with Western values. And Americans are being urged to do the same.
Before doing so, these Western nations should ask themselves two vital questions:
One: If “The Islamic House of Peace” reigns when Muslims become the majority of a country’s population, why are so many Islamics now fleeing Islamic countries?
Two: What does this presage for the Western, non-Islamic countries they are now flooding into?
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