Beating The Terrorists

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2Slick has a excellent essay on his blog today about his thoughts on why we are winning the war on terror. Here are a few examples

“First, I’d like to take a look at our enemy’s objectives. This isn’t very difficult, mainly because Osama bin Laden (the undisputed leader of our enemy) has been kind enough to share his thoughts and feelings with us over a period of many years. In my opinion, the most important disclosure from bin Laden came from this Frontline interview from May of 1998:”

…Allah has granted the Muslim people and the Afghani mujahedeen, and those with them, the opportunity to fight the Russians and the Soviet Union. … They were defeated by Allah and were wiped out. There is a lesson here. The Soviet Union entered Afghanistan late in December of ’79. The flag of the Soviet Union was folded once and for all on the 25th of December just 10 years later. It was thrown in the waste basket. Gone was the Soviet union forever. We are certain that we shall – with the grace of Allah – prevail over the Americans and over the Jews…

“Here we see bin Laden taking full credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and then promising to bring the same fate to Israel and the U.S. He honestly believed everything he said there. He must have- for it explains his decision to declare war on the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. Many argued that by going into Afghanistan, we were playing right into bin Laden’s hands- that bin Laden actually wanted us to come after him and his followers. I am one of those people who believe this. However, I don’t think bin Laden had any clue what he was up against. It’s not good practice to bait your enemy without first knowing who your enemy is. Why would he be so naive to think that we would simply walk into our own doom? Why did he believe we would suffer the same fate as the Soviets? Once again, bin Laden told us in his own words:”

Our boys no longer viewed America as a superpower. So, when they left Afghanistan, they went to Somalia and prepared themselves carefully for a long war. They had thought that the Americans were like the Russians, so they trained and prepared. They were stunned when they discovered how low was the morale of the American soldier. America had entered with 30,000 soldiers in addition to thousands of soldiers from different countries in the world…As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger. He was unable to endure the strikes that were dealt to his army, so he fled, and America had to stop all its bragging…After a few blows, it…rushed out of Somalia in shame and disgrace, dragging the bodies of its soldiers. America stopped calling itself world leader and master of the new world order, and its politicians realized that those titles were too big for them and that they were unworthy of them. I was in Sudan when this happened. I was very happy to learn of that great defeat that America suffered, so was every Muslim…

I, along with many of you, were sickened when Clinton ordered our troops out of Somalia after a few American deaths. I remember thinking “this is what our great nation has come to? Beaten by a few tribes in Somalia.” and now you see how much this event played in the mind of Bin Laden.

“Bin Laden fully expected a sub-Soviet “paper tiger” to come after his mujahedeen in Afghanistan- he did not expect an awakened giant with a “terrible resolve.” When the American giant answers a call, it does not send a few cruise missiles into a suspected terrorist camp and call it a day. It does not send some Special Forces troops on a covert mission to kill a bunch of people in some caves.”

2Slick also quotes from a Victor Hanson article where he asks “where are all those people who thought we would be beaten in Afghanistan? Those who thought Muslims would never accept Democracy?

“In September and early October 2001 we were warned that an invasion of Afghanistan was impossible ? peaks too high, winter and Ramadan on the way, weak and perfidious allies as bad as the Islamists ? and thus that the invasion would result in tens of thousands killed and millions of refugees. Where have all these subversive ankle-biters gone? Apparently into thin air ? or to the same refuge of silence as all the Reagan-haters of the 1980s who swore that a nuclear freeze was the only humane policy of dealing with Soviet expansionism.

After the seven-week defeat of the Taliban, these deer-in-the-headlights critics paused, and then declared the victory hollow. They said the country had descended into rule by warlords, and called the very idea of scheduled voting a laughable notion. We endured them for almost two years. Yet after the recent and mostly smooth elections, Afghanistan has slowly disappeared from the maelstrom of domestic politics, as all those who felt our efforts were not merely impossible but absurd retreated to the shadows to gnash their teeth that Kabul is not yet Carmel. Western feminists, homosexual-rights advocates, and liberal reformists have never in any definitive way expressed appreciation for the Afghan revolution now ongoing in the lives of 26 million formerly captive people. They never will. Instead, Westerners simply now assume that there was never any controversy, but rather a general consensus that Afghanistan is a “good thing” ? as if the Taliban went into voluntarily exile due to occasional censure from The New York Review of Books.

The more ambitious effort to achieve similar results in Iraq is following the same script, despite even more daunting challenges. Fascistic neighbors rightly see elections in Iraq as near fatal to their own bankrupt regimes. Some have oil; others have terrorists; still more, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, have both. Unlike Afghanistan, there is no neutral India or Russia nearby to keep Islamists wary, only the provinces of the ancient caliphate to supply plenty of jihadists to continue the work of September 11. Our mistakes in the reconstruction of Iraq were never properly critiqued as na?ve and too magnanimous, but rather they were decried by the Left as cruel and punitive ? as if being too lax was proof of being harsh.

Yet, thanks to the brilliance of the U.S. military and despite the rocky reconstruction and our own election hysteria, there is a good chance that the January elections can begin a cycle similar to what we see in Afghanistan. And at that point things should get very, very interesting.”

I would also like to interject something at this point. If 9/11 had happened under Gore’s watch would the results of been the same? This is debatable but my opinion would be no, it would not of been. We would of been the “paper tiger” Bin Laden wished for. If not for a man like President Bush who has the balls to do something that everyone said was impossible, we would of given Osama Jackoff what he wanted.