2 posts tagged “enemy”
Winfield Myers writes a revue (one might even call it an analysis) of a Robert Spencer speech sponsored by the Middle East Forum (MEF).
The theme of the speech was the word “jihad” and the near total absence of the word by Republican and Democratic candidates for President in using the word about America’s enemies.
Spencer (who I admire very much) believes the Presidential candidates’ lack of using jihad in naming America’s enemies is due to the fear of being labeled a racist and rocking the Politically Correct boat.
For the Democrats I totally agree with Spencer. They are laying in wait with their political pop guns to shoot the accusation of racist to any candidate that accuses Islam or Islamism of operating a jihad against America.
For the Republicans there may be a tinge of fear of bucking Political Correctness however I suspect most of the Republicans wish to win the nomination on issues that do not connect them to President Bush Policy on Iraq. The reason for this is that the Mainstream Media (MSM) and the Democratic Party have used half truths and out right lies to manipulate the American public that Iraq is a failure and the President is to blame.
The reality is there is plenty of blame game to go around from Bush, to rebellious elements in his Intelligence modus operandi and within the State Department as well as with duplicity in Congress among Democrats that switch back and forth on Iraq depending on how it can undermine President Bush or politically aggrandize a Congressman.
Take or leave my thoughts on the Candidates’ reluctance to name America’s enemies and their declared holy war known as “jihad.” Otherwise I am in total agreement with Robert Spencer.
I took a rare visit to a MSN group today. I have had a long association with a group known as The Conservative Village. The irony is the group started to slowly attract Leftie Moonbats that posted more often than the Conservative fellows that were supposed to be attracted there. I started revisiting the group recently and found that many also had stopped visiting. The group is slowly beginning to re-attract Conservatives back; however the posts are not as frequent (yet) as in the good old days.
I know many of you could care less about an MSN group history. But here is the thing, sometimes a brilliant piece of writing comes along. This is one of those cases.
Poster WoodyUF wrote “A Lesson in Enemy Tactics.” I am giving credit to The Conservative Village for that is where I first found the concise essay. I found out that WoodyUF has a blog in which he also posted this marvelous essay in which all should think about visiting. The Blog’s name is a variant of The Conservative Village moniker, it is called Woody58. If you like the essay, I encourage you to visit Woody58.
If you wish to read earlier posts on and the British Marines you can start HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
JRH
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A Lesson In Enemy Tactics
Woody
April 6, 2007
Woody58 Blog
Aside from the overtly insane, e.g Rosie, who from the outset claimed that the British sailors’ capture was an orchestrated event to pave the way to war with Iran, there were also many media outlets in the free world wondering aloud if the Brits had indeed strayed into Iranian waters and whether Iran had a right to their actions. The UK claimed immediately that it had GPS proof that their people were in Iraqi waters, but no one bothered to ask for that proof. Then we were treated to multiple photos of the sailors laughing and “being treated well”, which aside from failing to be dismissed as Iranian propaganda was not even mentioned as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, something the left claims to hold dear. Apparently only when we could possibly be perceived as violators of such.
Now the sailors are free and they are speaking out about the treatment they received at the hands of their captors. They are saying that they were “blindfolded, bound and stripped” and that they were “under constant psychological pressure”, all things that are considered torture if inflicted by Americans by today’s standards. The reaction thus far? Iran is stealing a page from the Democrats playbook in responding that the sailors were treated well and are now being forced, by their own government, to lie about Iran! Wait for it, kids…there will be a stampede by leftist “experts” such as Sean Penn and his ilk to be the first aboard the Iranian bandwagon on this.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the Clintons are the pioneers of this tactic. They mastered the art of doing whatever they pleased and then turning the guns on those who had caught them in the act, accusing the discoverers of engaging in a witch hunt. In my mind that is akin to pleading to the judge that your speeding ticket is the result of the police actually doing their jobs because they had the unmitigated audacity to monitor your speed.
So now we have Ahmadinejad claiming a “vast Western conspiracy” and it remains to be seen if his tactic will take hold here at home. I fear that it may. With the shrinkage of the world brought about by the advent of the world wide web, the examples of our corrupt politicians are being mimicked and utilized to the advantage of those who wish us harm. They know what sells here, and they have donned the classic plaid sport coat of the best used car salesmen of all time. They are becoming the hucksters who can bring us down and we cannot allow that to happen.
Sometimes I feel as though I have been the victim of a diabolical plot to make me think I’ve gone insane and that all that I knew to be true was a lie. That is what the enemies of America, both home and abroad, have been successful in doing. They have subverted truth and made believers out of willing dupes who think that if the newspaper says it, it’s true. Many of us know better, but we fight an uphill battle much as the sane person does when trying to escape the asylum.
Pray that propaganda loses.
-Woody
