THING YOU SHOULD KNOW
NO 2004-16
Edited 05-12-04 by Wes Borders, retired USAF General
The Bush Administration is not telling the American People what they
really need to know about the War on Terror and if they don't begin to
do so soon,
it could cost them the election. I have touched on this subject in past
editions, but it is time to just lay it all out there. Pass it on to
any of
your friends who can handle it.
THE THIRD GREAT JIHAD
The war against terror did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor will it
end with the peaceful transition to civilian authority in Iraq,
whenever that may be. Iraq is just a footnote in the bigger context of
this encounter,
but an important one. This war is what the Jihadists themselves are
calling the Third Great Jihad. They are operating within the framework
of a time
line, which reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the 7th
Century and are presently attempting to recreate the dynamics, which
gave rise to the religion in the first 200 years of its existence. No
religion in world history grew as fast in its infancy, and the reasons
for the initial growth of Islam are not hard to explain when you
understand what the world was like at the time of Muhammad's death in
632 AD. Remember that the Western Roman Empire was in ruins and the
Eastern Roman Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying desperately to
keep the power of its early grandeur while transitioning to Christianity
as a de facto state religion. The costs to the average person were
large, as he was being required to meet the constantly rising tax levied
by the state along with the tithes coerced by the church.
What Islam offered was the carrot or the sword. If you became a
convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe. If
you didn't convert, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most
to make, unless
you were a very devoted martyr in the making. In the beginning, even
the theology was not too hard for most to swallow, considering that both
Jewry and Christianity were given their due by the Prophet. There is but
one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet, as was Jesus and the
pre-Christian Jewish Prophets of the Torah. (Old Testament) Both were
called Children of the Book - the book being the Koran, which replaced
both the Old and the New Testaments for former Christians and Jews.
With this practical approach to spreading the word, Islam grew like
wildfire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all
directions.
This early growth is what the Muslims call The First Great Jihad and it
met with little resistance until Charles Martel of France, the father
of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours in France after they
had firmly established Islam on the Iberian Peninsula. This first
onslaught against the West continued in various forms and at various
times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain in 1492 at the battle
of Granada.
The Second Great Jihad came with the Ottoman Turks. This empire
succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a
Christian stronghold and an end to the Roman Empire in all of its
forms. The Ottoman Empire was Islam's most successful expansion of
territory, although the religion had fractured into warring sects and
bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in the ways of
the Prophet. By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats on
both land and sea and the final, unsuccessful attempt to capture Vienna,
through the Balkans, set the stage for the collapse of any further
territorial ambitions and Islam shrunk into various sheikdoms, emir
dominated principalities, and roving tribes of nomads.
By this time, a growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal
failures on anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting the stage
for a new Islamic revival known as Wahhabism, a sect which came into
full bloom under the House of Saud on the Arabian Peninsula shortly
before the onset of
WWI. It is this Wahhabi version of Islam, which has infected the
religion itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and
sects, especially the Shiites. Wahhabism calls for the complete and
total rejection or destruction of anything and everything, which is not
based on the original teachings of The Prophet, and finds its most
glaring practice in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or the Shiite
practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field
Marshall) is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of The Third
Jihad who is Wahhabi, as were his 9.11 attack teams, 18 of which were
also Saudi. The strategy for this holy war did not begin with the
planning of the destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with
the toppling of the Shah of Iran back in the late 1970's. With his
plans and programs to westernize his country, along with his close ties
to the United States and subdued acceptance of the State of Israel, the
Shah was a soft target.
Remember "America Held Hostage?" Thanks, in a large part to the
hypocritical and disastrous policies of the Jimmy Carter State
Department, the revolution was set into motion, the Shah was deposed,
his armed forces scattered or murdered and stage one was complete. The
Third Jihad now had a base of operations and the oil wealth to support
its grand design or what they call the Great Caliphate.
What the design calls for is the replacement of all secular leadership
in any country with Muslim majorities. This includes Egypt, Turkey,
Pakistan, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco,
Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia, Indonesia and finally what
they call the occupied territory, Israel. As a part of this strategy,
forces of the jihad will infiltrate governments and the military as a
prelude to taking control, once the secular leadership is ousted or
assassinated. Such was the case in Lebanon leading to the Syrian
occupation and in Egypt with the murder of Anwar Sadat, along with
multiple attempts on the lives of Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak in Egypt,
and Musharraf in Pakistan. Pakistan is a particular prize because of
its nuclear weapons. Remember the al Qaida call for the
Islamic-militant overthrow of Musharraf last March 25th?
The long-range strategy of The Third Jihad counts on three strategic
goals:
First, the US withdrawing from the region just as it did in Southeast
Asia. Second, taking control of the oil wealth of the Muslim nations,
Which would be upwards to 75 % of known reserves. And third, using
nuclear weapons or other WMDs, to annihilate Israel. A further outcome
of successfully achieving these objectives would be to place the United
Nations as the sole arbiter of East/West negotiations and paralyze
western resistance, leading to total withdrawal from all Islamic
dominated countries.
Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is found in
the events immediately following the 9.11 attack. The Administration's
first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt, believing that these two
would be the next targets of al Qaida, while Americans focused on the
disaster in New
York. The Administration also knew that the most important objective
was to
send a loud and clear message that the US was in the region to stay, not
only to shore up our allies, but to send a message to the Jihadists.
The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al Qaida
base of operations and put their leadership on the run or in prison.
The War in Iraq also met a very strategic necessity, in that no one knew
how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the master
planners of
The Third Jihad, or Saddam's willingness to hand off WMDs to terrorist
groups including the PLO in Israel. What was known, however, was that
there here serious indications of on-going collaboration as Saddam
funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israeli's
and others in Kuwait.
What the US needed to establish was a significant base of operations in
the center of the Islamic world, in a location which effectively cut it
in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this and for a host of other
strategic reasons.
Leadership of various anti-American groups both here and abroad
understood the vital nature of the Bush initiative and so launched
their demonstrations, worldwide, to Stop the War. Failing this, they
also laid plans to build a political campaign inside the country, with
the War on Iraq
as a plebiscite, using a little known politician as the thrust point -
Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the Radical Left moved
into the Dean campaign with both people and money, creating what the
clueless media called the Dean phenomenon. By building on the
left-wing base in the
Democrat Party and the Hate Bush crowd, the campaign resulted in a
consensus among most Presidential aspirants to withdraw the US from
Iraq and turn the operation over to the UN. When John Kerry became the
presumed Democrat Presidential Nominee, he adopted this mantra as his
theme song. If past is prologue, i.e., Vietnam, once the US leaves it
will not go back under any
circumstances, even if Israel is destroyed. Should Bush be defeated in
November, we could expect to see the dominoes start to fall in the
secular Islamic countries and The Clash of Civilizations, predicted
several years ago, would then become a life-changing event for all of
us. What surprised the Jihadists following the 9.11 attacks was how
American sentiment mobilized around the President and a profound sense
of patriotism spread across the country. They believed our media and
were not expecting this reaction, based on what happened in the past,
nor were they expecting the determined resolve of the President himself.
This is the main reason
that we have not had any further attacks within our borders. They are
content to wait, just as one of their tactical mentors - V. I. Lenin
admonished - two steps forward, one step back. Several additional events
serve as valuable footnotes to the current circumstances we face: the
destruction of the human assets factor of the CIA during the Carter
Presidency, presided over by Senator Frank Church. This happening has
plagued our intelligence agencies right up to this very day with
consequences, which are now obvious. Jimmy Carter is the one man who
must bear the bulk of the responsibility for setting the stage of The
Third
Jihad. Americans should find little comfort in how Democrats constantly
seek the advice and counsel of this despicable little hypocrite. Also,
we
should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation from Western Europe,
especially the French. Oil money and increasing Islamic populations
have bought-off or pressured most European politicians against us.
John Kerry, the Clintons, and the Democrat Party are either unaware of
the facts of the
Great Caliphate and The Third Jihad, or they do know and they don't
care, so
long as their power lust is satisfied. Some of their most ardent
supporters
however, are well aware of the circumstances and will do anything they
can to bring it about. Understand that the recent 9.11 "hearings" were
a political sideshow and Clarke's book (and others) was timed for these
hearings and the campaign. Bill Clinton was late, as usual, with his
book.
This is why Condolleeza Rice sought and received a private session with
this
commission to "tell it like it is." The national security issues
involving 9.11 happenings cannot be an "open book" to the public, and we
have to understand that. President Bush and the Republicans are
obviously extremely cautious in bringing this issue to the campaign,
because our Jihad-supporting media and the Kerry Democrat Left would
call this "racist" against Islam and a distraction for the alleged lies
of WMD and our reasons for going into Iraq. Bush correctly referred to
"the axis of evil" (Iran, Libya, Iraq, and North Korea) as a pointed
strategy to blunt the WMD-terrorist movement and he has been very
successful in thwarting al Qaida, despite whatever the Left says. We
are better off without the threat of Iraq and Libya, all within the
last 12 months.
We are threatened in Pakistan and if Musharraf is assassinated (it has
been tried several times in the last year), we can see how the
militants can gain
control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, which have already been provided
to
Iran by Pakistan's chief nuclear scientist. If Musharraf is taken out"
we
have both Iran and Pakistan as militant Islamic power bases armed with
nuclear weapons. The main global issue of course, is about the
potential for militant Islamic states controlling 75 % of the world's
oil. This is why Dick Cheney, Powell, Rice, and Wolfowitz are so
committed to the belief
that we are in this struggle for the free world, as we have known it,
and focused on defeating the militant Islamic-al Qaida global strategy.
They skirt the core issues because of the political correctness
implications, but
after reading this, you can understand just what is at stake here.
Kerry and the liberal Democrats want control of Washington at any price
and that price is victory for al Qaida and the Islamic militancy. It
is important for us to gain this perspective and educate our friends and
associates by all means available. Wes B |
