Allen West: Our Enemy Is Not Al-Qaeda Or The Taliban, It’s Islamic Totalitarianism…
Indeed it is.
Via Roll Call op-ed by Allen West:
Today’s paradigm of battle and combat operations is completely different from what I experienced in 1982 when I was commissioned as a young lieutenant in the U.S. Army. At that time, the battlefield was much simpler.
In broad strokes, there was the Soviet Union on one side and the United States on the other. We were familiar with their tactics and equipment, and they with ours. Both sides wore uniforms, and every now and then we would stage war games on border control missions.
That paradigm has completely disappeared, leaving in its place an asymmetrical battlefield with non-uniformed, non-state belligerents using unconventional weapons and tactics. If the United States is going to be successful in protecting its citizens and interests, it must quickly understand and adapt to this new battlefield and be prepared for success and victory.
While America may lack an appropriate strategic level perspective, we will never lose at the tactical level on the ground because the United States has the best soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen the world has ever known. But without the correct strategic and operational goals and objectives, we will find ourselves on the proverbial hamster wheel. No matter how much effort we exert on the wheel, we will not make forward progress.
To begin with, we must correctly identify our enemy. It is frankly naive to say we are at war with “terror” because a nation cannot be at war with a tactic. Imagine, if during World War II, the United States went to war against the “blitzkrieg” or the “kamikaze.”
Further, we cannot narrowly define the enemy as simply al-Qaida or the Taliban. It is just as ridiculous to say we declared war against the 12th German Panzer Division or the 55th Japanese Infantry Regiment in World War II or the 7th Guards Tank Division during the Cold War.
Before the rise of al-Qaida, the terrorist group which had inflicted the most damage on the United States was Hezbollah. Now Hezbollah has become a very capable military force, albeit one without state or uniform — so capable in fact, it has armed missiles within striking distance of every city in Israel.
The Obama administration has failed to identify Hezbollah as an enemy. On this 21st century battlefield we are not fighting against a single organization, leader or nation. We are fighting against the ideology of Islamic totalitarianism, manifested at a tactical level as terrorism, which knows no country and recognizes no borders.
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I wish he’d run…
I dare any libturd to pronounce Islamic totalitarianism.
In fact I dare any libturd to say they know what it means.
Me too
Can you even IMAGINE the panic and fear from the left if he did!!
Palin/ West!!
Islam is the ENEMY. (Islam itself is a SUPREMACY that has killed at least 270 million people since its ugly birth during the 7th Century.)
Kim in Katy says:Palin/ West!!
I prefer West/Palin or West/Cain or ………………………….. uh …………. ok tha’s about it
He needs to be on Cain’s cabinet as SecDef or something like it. That would scare them EVEN MORE!
Let’s rewrite the Koran for these tards, it’s been rewritten a thousand times before, so why not again… it’s time for the NEW KORAN which has removed from it all violence and perversion. It will only be 5 pages but still vastly improved.
FYI
All muzzies do in their mosques is plan how to infiltrate dominate subjugate and exterminate the al kafir (nonmuslims). They call their mosques their forts. Calling islam a religion is like calling Nazism a religon; can you imagine letting the Nazis build forts within our own country? And yes, they do have many cells and militias. These people are commanded to lie to and fuck up the al kafir in any way shape or form they can until they can kill them off, which is why you see other forms of jihad –litigation jihad, malpractice jihad, “accident” jihad (those muslim driven taxis which squish 20 people at a time).
Do NOT ever hire, serve, license, or include a muslim UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET SUED by them.
Why is he wasting time on this issue when Guam may tip over at any moment?
So true.
Al-Qaeda is a manifestation of a much, much larger problem.
Superb Mr. West. Succintly put and clearly defined.
Unlike Obama, who would have spent two hours stating the exact opposite.
@happydat
You’re not implying that West is the one who queried a general with that idiotic question, are you?
@Katherine
Of course not! These two stories were back to back and I can’t help but make a comparison between the intelligence of the Republican and the out right stupidity of the Democrat.
You gotta’ love this guy.
Do recall reading this recently on here.
p.s. I still say any given day that I would rather listen to something West has to say than fuster.
…and the Progressive Leftists
Allen West should be President. A real man in the white house would be great.
Lt.Col West is 100 percent correct.—-I have been arguing this for nearly 10 years now, “know your enemy and know him well” Said General Douglas MacArthur as he was also a student of the book “The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
When we went to war against the Taliban and Al Qaida in Afghanistan along with Iraq we simply failed to do due diligence on understanding the enemy. We have also failed to guard our back door as the stealth jihad has entered the halls of our government,our pentagon,our public schools,and our universities everywhere. There are Muslim Students Associations on nearly 500 college campuses across America who are trying to intimidate teachers,students and staff at every level and they are succeeding.
The enemy in fact is driven by the teachings of Islam throughout the umma ( collective body of Muslims) We failed to realize and study the 164 jihad alas among the surahs in the Quran that make jihad an obligatory requirement for all Musllims to defend Allah or subdue those who are non Muslim.
There may be around 26 recognized Islamic tribes of which the Sunni make up the major portion 85 percent,followed by the Shia,Wahabist,and Salafists and so on. But they all have the teaching of Mohamed in common.
The majority want to destroy all Western Nations,bring in sharia law, and establish a caliphate– they in fact preach this everyday throughout the Middle East .
The most important thing to remember is that the words of Allah through Mohamed are consider pure and cannot be changed for all time — thus you are dealing with an archaic ideology that is still stuck back in the 6th century.
Hearing that phrase reminded me of something I had saved. Has anyone here read NER (New English Review) three part posts titled,
“Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam” by Ibn Warrq? They’re not long, a long-ish page each, with footnotes.
Part I: ISLAM AS TOTALITARIANISM
(Jan. 2009)
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/30778/sec_id/30778
Part II: Christian Apologists Of Islam
(Feb. 2009)
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/31133/sec_id/31133
Part III: Michel Foucault
(Feb. 2009)
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/31136/sec_id/31136
@happydat
Sorry, I hadn’t seen the previous article when I saw your comment.
My apologies.
@ Katherine:
I agree — O’Bungle could not possibly compose a set of specific, direct, and coherent thoughts without his ghostwriter Bill Ayers.
Right on target as always.
I may be in a mood to oppose all incumbents, but Rep. West clearly has a better job waiting for him at 2013′s White House.
As a Christian I can say very comfortably that islam is Satanic.
Evil on earth. Anti-human.
“To begin with, we must correctly identify our enemy. It is frankly naive to say we are at war with “terror” because a nation cannot be at war with a tactic. Imagine, if during World War II, the United States went to war against the “blitzkrieg” or the “kamikaze.””
Amen. Now if at least the wimpy Republicans out there could get behind that, we would make a major leap forward.
Thanks Halodoc.
Have said for years that “Global War On Terror” was a moronic name. Call it what it is – “Islamist War Against Western Civilization” and it’s been going on for over a thousand years –
Getting thrown out of Spain in 1492 was merely a setback…
Once again, Political Correctness wins another victory, even over one of the staunchest critics of Islam.
It’s NOT, Islamic Totalitarianism…
It’s ISLAM.
Cain/West 2012
Cain for business, West for the muslim war
I would certainly love to be able to call this man a friend….with luck we can someday call him “Mr. President”.
For those not familiar, the Bible calls it spiritual wickedness(selfishness without regard for God) among those allowed authority.
Allen West………. The flooding conservative websites as well general media with his shameless self promoting propaganda speaking out of all sides of his mouth Potemkin Village/Trojan Horse scheming and lying fraud whose actions say everything inclusive of his voting record and membership within the darling Congressional Black Caucus. Ya, that Allen West who voted against a balanced budget initiative, who voted for Pigford II, afterward claimed he “had no idea”, who voted for increasing the debt ceiling and extending the Patriot Act, who assailed the Tea Party with outright contempt, calling its members “schizophrenics” in the face and wake of the aforementioned.
This guy is such a scheming con artist. He’ll say and do anything to play everybody.
Be very afraid of this hustler until he is voted out.