This WAR is REAL, by 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;
*The "field" in Pennsylvania
* 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 Moslems.
4 What is the Moslem
population of the World? 25%.
5 Isn't the Moslem
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 a catholic), 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 (and 7,000 Polish priests).
<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 Moslem 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
Moslems there may be, they are no protection for us from the
terrorist Moslem leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by
their own pronouncements
-- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the
peaceful Moslems. 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 Moslem 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-Moslem 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 Moslem 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 Moslem terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Moslem 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 Moslems? If we can't stop the Moslem/Terrorists,
how could anyone else?
The radical Moslems 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 Moslem
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 Moslem 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 Moslem 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 Moslem/ 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 *Moslem terrorists stated goal is to kill all
infidels*. That translates into ALL non-Moslems
-- 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 Moslem 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
Moslem 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 Moslems take over France in the next 5 years or less, they will continue to
increase the Moslem population of France.
They will also 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, being 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.
Moslems 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 non-existent "peaceful Moslems?"
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, just like we did in WWII ...
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*
Source: Dr. Vernon Chong
Comments by David Weldon
This is a 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, not realizing how 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 website and look him up: U.S. Air Force > About Us > Biographies > Alphabetical Biography Index
<http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/AlphabeticalBiographyIndex/tabid/286/Indexlastname/C/Page/8/Default.aspx>
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