Afraid to kill?
Ralph Peters: ‘Fighting terror’ with wishful thinking
It’s not true that the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. Even dead terrorists aren’t good. But at least they’re dead.
And that helps.
But political correctness has possessed Washington. It’s so bad that even Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who’s done a great job in many other respects, parrots the cliché that “we can’t kill our way out of this.”
Well, folks, there’s no other way out of this all-or-nothing struggle with fanatics. Three thousand years of history teach that there’s no alternative — none — to killing fanatics in large numbers when your enemies are ablaze with religious zeal.
What Gates and countless others really mean is that we’re unwilling to kill our way out of this assault on our civilization. So the terrorists keep on killing us.
We tell ourselves that one more charm offensive, one more inept aid program, one more surge of troops who aren’t allowed to fight will persuade terrorists on a murderous mission from their god to lay down their arms and run for alderman.
We refuse to see the world through terrorist eyes. Instead, we superimpose liberal-arts-faculty values on bloodthirsty zealots, asking what we’ve done to make them so angry.
The result? We grant captured terrorists more rights and better treatment than nonviolent offenders in a US county jail. We cater to them at the gentrified prison at Guantanamo (yet the global media insist that Gitmo’s just a big torture chamber).
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We tell ourselves we’ll impress our enemies with our humanitarianism. But how many Gitmo prisoners have turned pacifist or expressed regrets? If you were convinced that you were doing God’s will, would you be budged by a captor who gives you priority health care, a religiously correct diet, special worship privileges and free legal counsel? Allah has made his enemies weak . . .
The laws of war provide for the battlefield execution of illegal combatants — those who refuse to wear uniforms or identifying insignia or who commit atrocities. Instead, we give them flu shots before American citizens can get them.
When a madcap ideologue such as Attorney General Eric Holder tells Congress we mustn’t be afraid to try terrorists in our judicial system, he gets it exactly wrong. The terrorists believe we’re afraid to kill them. And they’re right.
So we’ll get the upcoming propaganda bonanza of the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his terrorist barbershop quartet. And we’ll squander hundreds of millions of dollars on special security precautions in Manhattan. The inevitable outcome? We’ll make heroes of the terrorists throughout the Muslim world.
Meanwhile, down in Texas, terrorist assassin Maj. Nidal Hasan’s lawyer is already making a mockery of our judicial system. Hasan will become a terrorist icon, too.
And even if Hasan, KSM and the boys are all convicted of multiple counts of premeditated murder, they won’t be executed for many years to come — if ever.
How does this deter fanatical enemies? Our insistence on treating terrorism as shoplifting that got a little out of hand doesnot protect Americans.
Terrified of the new global reality, Washington refuses to accept that we’re no longer dealing with the political terrorists of the 20th century — some of whom could, indeed, be won over or bought off. We’re now dealing with religious madmen hungry for an apocalypse. And our government and the media scramble to deny that Islam has anything to do with it. The poor terrorists just have grievances.
If Khalid Sheik Mohammed has a heart attack during his trial, he’ll get better health care than most Post readers. Paralyzed from the waist down, Maj. Hasan will get priority on rehab treatment over our vets from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bring terrorists to Manhattan? They should never have made it to Gitmo.
Ralph Peters’ latest book is “The War After Armageddon.”
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Isn’t that the truth!
…..except I suspect we will all find ourselves fighting our way out of all this…the islamists are already fighting amongst themselves!!
I think the violence will get worse and it will be the violence coming from the Muslims and our ‘leaders’ will continue to be stymied after the violence when the ones who chose to ‘fight in Allahs way via money and deceit’ wail and whine that they are the victims. They are the ones who are the danger too. We can’t figure out that a ‘religion’ sanctions lying. Or that a ‘religion’ says that if one kills then they will get a fast ticket to heaven, bypass hell, bypass judgement and then they get an orgy for eternity. How can we wrap our minds around this mindset?
Easy. Stop thinking that we should put our own morals and thoughts on to them and just accept there are true morons and there is truly evil in this world. The rest is easy. The hard part is that if they feel they are being cornered they will lie to us and they might even start trying to blend in a little bit more. I still won’t trust them now that I know what Islam is all about.
We dont need to kill terrorists in large numbers. Terrorists are born every day in large numbers, and we will be in a never ending mission.
To win, we need to stop Islamic immigration, on the sound basis that they carry the ideology of terrorism within them. Most may not be terrorists, but we have no way to know who they are, and who are not. Besides, it is likely that even those we are not , may suddenly get a wish for those 72 virgins.
Next step, start deportations of illegal immigrants, criminals etc. Next step, permanent visa holders, as they are not citizens, to be asked to leave.
By this time, most Mulims will get the message, that the project to Islamise the West is over, and all they have is to live as our dhimmis, forever under scrutiny.
All those millions of deported Muslims, and those tens of millions of Muslims who were hoping to make it to the West, will of course be very disappointed and angry. And we all know how angry and frustrated Muslims behave, and they will take it out on the rest.
Poverty and food shortages as a consequence of increased populations and no venting of pressure will become endemic in Muslim countries, leading to conditions that a reformation of Islam may take place.
Thus separation from Muslims may well be a favour to Islamic nations and Muslims, leading them to question Islam, and thus ridding themselves of this evil creed.