One of the fundamental axioms of warfare is "Know Your Enemy".
To ignore this is to court defeat, as surprise is the great force multiplier.
Political correctness aims in part to prevent this most basic tenet of warfare to be honored:
Evidently, it wasn't enough of a red flag to read this lunatic's anti-American bitterness, which he proudly posted on the Internet with no fear or compunction about using his own name. This is a guy who regularly wore the fundamentalism uniform of the enemy he was supposedly training our troops to defeat. This is a guy who wrote in laudatory terms about suicide bombers as he condemned US policies in the Middle East. This is a guy who reportedly told his military classmates that he was a Muslim first and an American second. Hello? Is there anyone out there with common sense? If this is what's called national security; we are in more trouble than we realize. How many more savage time bombs do we have walking and stalking among us?
Indeed, Muslim jihadists of the Wahabbist strain, our primary enemies in the War on Terror, rely on political correctness to operate in plain sight. They use their different ethnicity to their advantage by playing the race card to prevent inquiry into their activities. We will no doubt discover that Nidal Malik Hasan was an excellent tactician in this regard---otherwise, one presumes that his performance issues and inability to fit in with the Army culture would have truncated his career long before attaining field grade rank, even in the woefully-slack medical field.
So what was this man doing in the military in a time of war?
One good answer:
We have become a sick society where fantasies are favored and reality is called "racist." If there were an officer of Japanese descent in our military during WWII, he wouldn't have lasted till the next day's rising sun if he had expressed pro-Imperial Japanese sentiments. But that was then, when America was America, before she was sacrificed on the altar of the leftist dystopia in utopian clothing.
It's only a sick society that tolerates yet another, far more dangerous fifth column: those traitors who, as Cicero said 2000 years ago, appear not as traitors, who speak in accents familiar to their victims and who wear their victims' face and their arguments. I speak of those who wasted no time painting Hasan as a victim, writers such as Kenyon Wallace, who only emphasized the claim that the major was "harassed" by colleagues and theorized that post traumatic stress disorder might have influenced this man who never saw a firefight until he started one at Fort Hood.
What bunk. Sure, Hasan got into heated arguments with fellow officers and was called names. But that's not called harassment. Harassment is when you disgorge the enemy's rhetoric with a violent tongue. It's called a defense of God, country and culture. It's called pushing back when pushed.
Yet, however much some push individually, as a society we are three little monkeys content with their self-imposed handicaps. Is it noteworthy that Islamists perpetrated 9/11, that we are at war with them and that they have spread their creed primarily by the sword ever since its inception nigh on 1400 years ago? Is it noteworthy that they perpetrated the aforementioned Arkansas murder; that Sgt. Asan Akbar attacked members of his own American unit in Kuwait with grenades and a gun in 2003; and that, as WorldNetDaily.com reports citing a recent book, "jihadists fill ‘every branch'" of the U.S. military? Is it noteworthy that virtually all today's terrorism is Islamist handiwork, from New York to Nigeria, France to the Philippines, India to Israel? Is this not a pattern?
Yet, the powers that be still pretend as if fitting an obvious, consistently demonstrated profile is meaningless and trumped by facile propositions such as "He is a soldier sworn to duty," "He is an ‘American' with freedom of speech and religion," or the worn out "Islam is a religion of peace" and "Most Muslims are good people." And their attitude much reminds me of an old Mad Magazine cartoon I read as a boy. It was a depiction of two men observing a huge, octopus-like monster holding a colleague in one tentacle, a fork and knife in two others and dangling salt and pepper shakers over the man's head with another two. One of the men then asks the other (I'm paraphrasing), "What makes you think this creature intends to eat Dr. Toms?"
Ah, the beauty of tolerance and open-mindedness. Pay no attention to the turbaned man behind the curtain. It's them thar racists clingin' to guns and religion (other than Islam) you've got to worry about.
Americans are historically reluctant to stare into the face of evil. We are eternal optimists ill-at-ease at the prospect. Prior to Pearl Harbor, we sought to stay out of the war despite all signs of Axis evil and roused only when our Pacific fleet lay on the bottom of the harbor. Even after years of fighting the Nazis and Japanese, we still were shocked by what we found when we liberated the concentration and POW camps.
And so it is with the jihadis. What kind of people strap bombs to the handicapped and to children and send them out to kill civilians? What kind of people saw off the limbs of their countrymen in soccer stadiums? What kind of people slit the throats of stewardesses and ram planes into buildings? What kind of people saw the heads off of journalists? What kind of people throw hand grenades into their commanding officers tents or shoot their brothers and sisters while shouting "God is great!"?
Evil people.
Much is made of culture but it is the rare culture indeed where torture, rape, and murder have been elevated to cardinal virtues. Such is the case with militant Islam, particularly that of the Saudi-sponsored Wahabbist strain to which
Hasan and Al Qaeda subscribed.
These are people who cannot be negotiated with. These are people who cannot be appeased.
Know Your Enemy.
Labels: War on Terror
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