If you would like information on General Chong, go to Google and type in his name (Major General Vernon Chong). All of the following is something that everyone should read.
This WAR is for REAL!
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 that 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 predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
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 heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating 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, 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 shut up or die?
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 terrorist 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 trains 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 on 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!
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 Muslims, how could anyone else?
The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We 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 really digging in and lending 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 we have become accustomed to. 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 then.
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 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 people 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 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 this 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.
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 in at least one respect. 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.
They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?
I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. 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.
After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our children, our grandchildren, our country, and the 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 that find fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE! I understand and believe everything you have written. However, until our President does something to light a fire of knowledge in the average American we are doomed to failure. This isn't the ww2 generation coming up today. It's a generation of kids who have been pampered beyond comprehension. Most have never even been spanked and you expect them to understand a war with such complex issues it took you an entire essay to scratch the surface of it. As for older generations that took part in free love and other stupid activities, they will never trust the government or anything they say. All wars to them will be "another Vietnam". You know the peace not war bull$hit. These two generations make up the majority of Americans today and yes they are willing to give it up. They don't want to hear it or believe it's coming. Outstanding work! I copied it into a Word file for reference and will link to it as I battle the "anti-war" left's daily "Two Minutes Hate".
Odd that most "anti-war" types have no idea what that prase means. Report It
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What a knob.... So...... what's your question? congratulations for your opinions on war, but...what can any of us do in front of such calamities?! So i read most of your stuff, and i can say thanks for writing your opinion I agree with most of it.
Only there are different muslim cultures and you cant include all of them. EX indosian muslims are peaceful!
Good luck finding peoples ZzzzzzZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZ Excellent analysis of the current conflict .. but where is your question. Wow!!! look at the above answers and it just enforces what you have said. The here and now is just fine why think about Spain or France, what happens there does not concern me. I bet those people who died in the Spanish train bombing thought the same... Even the riots last year in Paris (caused by Muslim immigrants) . Just as we have allowed Mexico to quietly invade our borders for decades and only now meekly fight back with words and threats. I am afraid "honest and caring" Muslims will continue to move to this country until they have populated large sections of our country then they will all turn on non muslims. Even though we are the only superpower in the world we have become emmasculated by fearing what other nations and cultures may think of what we do.. I think you turned alot of people off by the length of your "question", however, what you say is true and extremly important to our survival as a nation... Peace? Sleepy rant but what does General Chong have to do with this?
I know Gen Chong, I worked for him skippy. He is a Doctor.
Maj Gen Vernon Chong, USAF, Medical Corps, Senior Flight Surgeon
(SG) - Surgeon General Air Education and Training Command, Brooks AFB, TX
(SG) - Commander, Wilfred Hall Medical Center
Lackland AFB, TX
He didnt care much for Gen. Ashey, but then, no one did. Thank you. About time somebody that knows what they're talking about say something. It also about time the american people got off their a@#, elect some officals to get the job done, and complete it no matter the costs. And like the author stated in his very long statement, if we pull out of this war, both the Republicans and Democrats know, that life in America will become a lot harder. Simply put, NOBODY WILL TRUST US ANYMORE!!! AMERICA WILL BE ALONE!!! ANYBODY CAN ATTACK US AND KNOW THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL JUST BACK AND THREATEN THEM WITH WORDS AND NOT TAKE ANY ACTION!!! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST STAND STRONG!!! WAR IS NOT MEANT TO BE NICE! PEOPLE DIE, PEOPLE GET INJURED, AND OUR MILITARY KNOWS WHEN THEY SIGN THAT CONTRACT THAT ANY DAY COULD BE THERE LAST. To Bookreader: really commendable research. A few things though...
"What losing really means is: We would no longer be the premier country in the world." You're bang on there. I couldn't argue that.
"The next will probably be France." I say France will probably never be attacked. China is catching up in the energy race, so my guess is China can expect to be attacked by America.
"If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it." Spot on again. No more Enron charging Indians 7 times more for their own electrical power. No more Bechtel charging the poor of Cochabamba 70% more for their own water. No more Union Carbide getting away with paying nothing to the 20,000 dead from the leakage in it's plants in a poor town in India.
"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." Number of civilians killed so far in Iraq: 33,773. Clean? Lawful? Honorable? I wonder what happens if you decide not to be clean. The muslims suddenly dont scare me anymore.
"They are also the same type enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq." Could they be doing that after they saw the charred corpses of their innocent kids and parents stuck to the tar streets of their city? Am just thinking...
"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." Did no one tell you? The guns Bin Laden has were given to him by America. At the same time that Saddam was committing his horrid atrocities, he had massive financial backing from the USA.
"We are the last bastion of defense." How many examples of America overthrowing democracies and installing dictatorships for its own ends do you want? This one is like Hitler yelling "I am the last hope of secularism"
" It is your future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it." As a non-american national, I again totally agree with you. It is my future you're talking about. It's only a matter of time before America finds a 'cause' to liberate China, India, Pakistan, Switzerland, France and any other country that thinks it can have it's own way of life. |
