What If We Lose In Iraq, And The War On Terror?

I received an e-mail from my father today that contained an essay from a retired Major General, Vernon Chong, who was, among other things, the Command Surgeon for
Headquarters U.S. European Command, Stuttgart, Germany.

Dr. Chong does a fantastic job in his essay outlining why we all must ignore the anti-war, appeasment leftists and stay united behind our troops and the War On Terror.

This essay is a bit long but well worth the read. I don't think you can argue the case for staying the course in Iraq as well as the whole War on Terror better than Dr. Chong does.

And now without further adieu:

Subject: Muslims, terrorist and the USA. A different spin on Iraq
war.

This WAR is for REAL! Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF,
Retired

Tuesday, July 12, 2005
To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our
country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as
we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which
includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there
are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even
fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let's examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United
State is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with
the following attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.

(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581
terrorist attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacked?

Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks
happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan,
Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans
or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents
or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.

3. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.

5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that
the predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but
under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also
Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the
administration or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million
Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including
7,000 Polish priests). (see
http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm )

Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the
Nazis, as the six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them,
and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities.
Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no
hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating
the Jews or of taking over the world
- German, Christian or any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US,
but kill all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French
or anyone else.
The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no
protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful
Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the
terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on
doing -- by their own pronouncements -- killing all of us
"infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do
if the choice was shut up or die?

6. So who are we at war with?

There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other
than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and
avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no
way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you
are fighting.

So with that background, now to the two major questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal
questions

We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound,
the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not
fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war
means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on
about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the
truth as one can get.

What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks
will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they
want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet,
they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks
against us, over the past
18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until
we were neutered and submissive to them.

We would of course have no future support from other nations, for
fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see, we are
impotent and cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It
will be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain
hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain
to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim
terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops.
Anything else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is
finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that
they might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are
finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without
us.
However,
it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim
and fading fast!

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life
will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or
deal with us, if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't
stop the Muslims, how could anyone else?

The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore
are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it
too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple.
Until
we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put
100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to
take that 100% effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding."
That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and
their purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to
the war effort If we are united, there is no way that we can lose.
If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend
the life and death seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men
between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow
profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously?
This
is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of
the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be
prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will
most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of
civil rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the
victory and in fact added many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our
Political Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this
conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those
words apply to war. Get them out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the
Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to
see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they are
disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing
means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy
that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it
does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and
media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps
exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue,
involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a
small group of our military police. These are the type prisoners
who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off
buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and
otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam
Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically
killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are
also the same type of enemy fighters, who recently were burning
Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets
of Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type of enemy that was and is
providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the
beheading of American prisoners they held.

Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for
several days have thought and talked about nothing else but the
"humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not
dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading
them, but "humiliating" them.

Can this be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the
Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of
comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we
are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the
disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can.

To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this
prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome
burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world.
Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal
strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our
politicians or media people are disloyal.
It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the
magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim
terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels!
That
translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United State,
but throughout the world.

We are the last bastion of defense.

We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That
charge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we
believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win
the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both
hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the
world!

We can't!

If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not
survive, and no other free country in the world will survive if we
are
defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that
allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion,
freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone
everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been
productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the
world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this
war or we will be equated in the history books to the
self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire . If, that is, the Muslim
leaders will allow history books to be written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the
Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will
continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue
to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions.
The French will be fighting among themselves, over what should or
should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep
them from any united resolve.
Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some
external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away,
politically correct piece by politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown,
worldwide that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or
even to themselves, once they are in power.

They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they
then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who
control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically
correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we
are united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the
election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the
critical situation we are in, and will unite to save our country.
It is your future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to
preserve it.

If you would like to see who this fellow is go to this Air Force
web sight and look him up.
http://www.af.mil/bios/alpha.asp?alpha=C

I don't fully agree with Dr. Chong's notion that it's not disloyalty on the part of the anti-war leftists, but rather lack of understanding what losing will mean. That may be true of some of them. But there are also those from the left who hate the U.S. so much that they want us to lose. You know the kind. The ones who wish for our troops "a million Mogaishus". Those that think we deserved 9/11.

What these fools don't understand is that if they get their way, they aren't going to be spared the tyranny and violence, in fact, they will more than likely be the first executed, since their propensity toward dishonor and disloyalty will rule out their useful existence.

I'm with Dr. Chong. I hope the majority of Americans will begin to ignore the left, pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, roll up our sleeves and commit ourselves to supporting the war effort, even stronger than we did for WWII.

I hope that in November we will remember which party is committed to eliminating the Islamo-Fascist threat, and which one wants to placate it.