This is another important piece chronicling the perverse
nature of an ill-advised battle strategy chosen by a mindless body politic and their
morally defunct General Grade surrogates.
If the strategy (COIN) was such a magnificent contrivance,
there would be no discussion about progress; it would in fact be self-evident.
Instead we have journalists like Michael Yon, who is not of the exact same camp
as I am. He and I have talked and he has held out hope for a properly run COIN
operation even in the midst of the demonically possessed while I believe every
iteration is doomed to failure.
This, his latest piece, provides even more insight into this
nightmare called COIN, conceived in the hearts of spiritually soiled men and in
meetings governed by a coward's concern for global perceptions! This travesty
of strategy, as a principle of theater-wide application ought to be outlawed by
this Nation!
The world court opinion BE DAMNED!
Our concern as a people of a nation should be for the well-being
of our War Fighters - FIRST! If Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians, Libyans,
Tunisians, Algerians, et al want to lessen their plight, they have the exact
same opportunity as our Fore Fathers did; fight for it! We owe them nothing and
certainly not our trust or the blood of our finest! The problem is, they don't
see their condition as a scourge or a plight; they see it as the spiritually
enlightened condition of men who have given themselves to the doctrines of a
man who claimed to have conversed with a 'god'. Any man in this country who
thinks we have anything to offer people who have given so much of themselves to
so vile a religious construct as Islam is simply arrogant - and ignorant!
Asking better men to sacrifice themselves for this arrogance is the height,
width and depth of moral depravity! Demanding they continue in light of such
absolute proof of the total and abysmal failure of such an arrogantly conceived
battle plan, is simply criminal!
If this is going to change, men currently serving in the
Halls of our great governmental institutions are going to have to enlist the
help of men dedicated to this discussion who actually understand the topic. Our
Representatives and Senators are going to have to decide to act in a way that
may not be politically feasible and say things that may cost them an election.
But one thing is certain, unless these men who claim to have a heart for the
troops and say they understand that the current direction is wrong, act
furiously to change it, our forces will continue to suffer the same
life-altering injury and pay with their lives as have those before them. And
the price they will pay, in the end, will be in vain because Afghans are not
going to change what they fervently believe to be the state of being required
by their 'god' and his spokesman.
Afghanistan is a cesspool of humanity; a mass grave for honorable
men compelled to serve in her sewage by the arrogant, delusional and cowardly
politicians of the day. Nothing good has come of our efforts; nothing good will
come out of the next two years.
Our political establishment has lost its way or maybe the
American population has lost its moral compass and have consciously chosen men
of unscrupulous character and such a deplorable lack of courage to represent
them. In either case the affect is the same on our War Fighters.
Michael Yon does an exceptional job of providing insight
into the latter days of this our most miserable martial effort in the midst of
a demonically charged and hate-filled culture.
How many more lives must be destroyed before those who dare
call themselves "Statesmen", will muster the courage to draw that
metaphoric line in the sand and demand this fratricide committed by our leaders
against our War Fighters, end?
Happy Reading…
SF
John Bernard
