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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: curmudgeoncurmudgeon Date: Apr 18, 2008 10:20
"The Daring Dufas" hottestmale.com> wrote in message
news:fu62k8$11t$1@aioe.org...
A buddy of mine at UAB sent this to me, it's worth reading.
I usually don't forward political writings but this one is
really nonpartisan. Is it true essay from Dr. Chong? I don't
know but the message rings true regardless. The history lesson
included should get even the thickest skulled readers to
start thinking about what's going on outside their own little
world.
TDD
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'For what it's worth ... I've read, and then re-read every word in
the note below, and believe it's one of the very few letters I've ever
received that merit forwarding.
This is the most cogent and powerful essay on the threat of Islamic
terrorism I have seen. Dr. Vernon Chong is, without a doubt, the most
articulate and convincing writer I have read regarding the War in Iraq .
If you have any doubts, please open your mind to his essay and give it
a fair evaluation. It's also eerily applicable to other current issues,
such as Iran 's nuclear program, immigration, NAFTA's impact on American
jobs, trade deficits, etc. I had no idea who Dr. Chong is, or the
source of these thoughts, so when I received them, I almost deleted
them, as well-written as they are. But then I did a Google search on
the Doctor and found him to be a retired Air Force surgeon and past
commander of Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio .'
If you would like to see who this fine man is, go to this Air Force web
site and look him up:
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5000'
Muslim terrorists and the U.S.A. :
A different spin on the war in Iraq: This WAR is REAL
Dr.. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired
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 11, 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: 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 predecessor, President Ford.
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
hear of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept
the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy in killing anyone who
got in the way of his extermination of 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, British, 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 to remain silent or be killed?
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 terrorists 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 with 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.
Without our support, Great Britain will go, also. Recently, I read that
there are more mosques in England than churches.
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
Muslim terrorists, how could anyone else?
The radical Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore
are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We'd 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 failing to dig in and lend 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 to which we have become accustomed. 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 that time.
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 think some actually do. 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 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 of enemy fighters who recently were burning Americans and dragging
their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq . And, still more
recently, the same type of 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 they 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.
These people are a serious and dangerous liability to the war effort.
We must take note of who they are and get them out of office. 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. 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.
Muslims have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then
start brutally killing each other over who the few will be controlling
the masses.
What is happening in Iraq is a good example. Will we ever stop hearing
from the politically correct about the 'peaceful Muslims?'
I close on a hopeful note by repeating what I said before: 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.
I reiterate: our national election is under way.
After reading the above, we all must do this, not only for ourselves,
but for our children, our grandchildren, our country, and our 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 who find
fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks
through this, that we must UNITE!
Lastly, I wish to add: at the risk of offending, I sincerely think that
anyone who rejects this as just another political rant, or doubts the
seriousness of this issue, or just deletes it without sending it on, is
part of the problem. Let's quit laughing at and forwarding the jokes
and cartoons which denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this war
against terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well being
of the US and it's citizens. Best we support them.
*GOD BLESS AMERICA*
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