Since my last piece, the anti-Americans, Neocons, Israel Firsters, and former Obamaites have — like slugs — continued to slither forth and attack President Trump for deciding to evacuate U.S. troops from Syria and then Afghanistan. So far, the new wave of slugs includes Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Friedman, Eugene Robinson, Robert Kuttner, and the prison-bound, Obama-apologist Susan Rice, all of whom have damned Mr. Trump. David Ignatius also has returned for a second attack on the president. Ignatius apparently is taking over from the geriatric and clueless Bob Woodward as the Deep State’s most-favored, foolish, and fully controlled court historian.
Not to be outdone, FOX News is rolling out retired General Jack Keane at regular intervals to attack President Trump for not being smart enough to use the notorious bureaucratic-snare for prolonging unnecessary wars known as the “national security decision-making process”, and then accept its advice about what to do in Syria and Afghanistan. If used, this process would yield three easily predictable words of advice “stay the course”, this is because what that process inevitably wants is more war.
General Keane has been wrong about almost every military issue he has addressed on television since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October, 2001. Keane always sees light at the end of the tunnel, but when the light finally shows a clear picture, it is, invariably, one of more dead and maimed U.S. troops, billions of additional dollars wasted, less U.S. security, and endless war. Indeed, General Keane is the perfect product of the traditional war-wanting “national security decision-making process”. His analysis always calls for more war, no matter how definitively U.S. forces are defeated or have been shackled to make sure they cannot win.
Here is what President Trump seems to know: The wars in the Middle East, since the end of World War Two, have been caused by four factors: (a) the creation of the state of Israel; (b) unquestioning and unrelenting U.S. and Western support for Israel; (c) unquestioning and unrelenting U.S. and Western support for tyrannical regimes across the Islamic World, but especially in the Arab portion thereof; and (d) unrelenting U.S. and Western military, political, economic — the current lust Syrian oil and Afghan Lithium, for example — and cultural interventionism in the Muslim world.
American and Western troops are being shot at and killed by Islamists on Muslim territory not only because they are there to kill Islamists, but to act as the armed agents of the Western governing elite’s plan to homogenize world cultures, thereby making it easier for them to rule the globe in the fascist manner they, the EU, and the UN fancy. Most Europeans and some Americans have put up with this deadly, liberty-killing crap, but most Muslims have not, and will not, not ever.
What Mr. Trump seems to sense is that the threat to the United States flows directly and primarily from this endless and multi-faceted U.S.-led interventionism. He also knows that not a single U.S. Marine or soldier could be killed or maimed by an AK-47-armed, Islamist fighter if he or she was not present in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Niger, Mali, Chad, or the host of other intervened-in countries.
Unlike most U.S. presidents, politicians, generals, journalists, and professors, moreover, President Trump seems to have a good knowledge of geography. His acquaintance with maps has allowed him to see that the Islamist enemy is virtually no threat to genuine U.S. national interests unless our forces are operating on Muslim territory to enforce their governing elite’s order to impose so-called Western values on Muslims; protect Arab tyrants; and — most important — ensure Israel’s safety and its ability to do whatever it wants in the region. (NB: Is it any wonder the Islamists are fighting this foreign intervention? Americans gave King George III the boot for doing far fewer violent and culturally catastrophic things to the thirteen colonies.)
Mr. Trump also gains another advantage over his critics from his familiarity with maps. While every president since McKinley has failed to notice and appreciate this key feature on a world map, President Trump sees that there is a 3,000-mile-wide oceanic water barrier off the east coast of the United States, and a 4,000-mile-wide barrier off the republic’s west coast. He also knows that our Islamist enemies have neither an air force nor a navy, and so have no way to get to the United States unless than can combine rowing like the Homeric heroes of yore, with explicit approval and divine help from Allah.
As result, Mr. Trump is working, I believe, on a two-part process, with both parts unfolding simultaneously. The first part is the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Syria and Afghanistan, not because the Islamic State and al-Qaeda are defeated, but because such a withdrawal makes attacking the United States a much more difficult task for the Islamists, as well as a much lower priority on their list of to-do tasks. After all, the Islamists focus on the United States because it knows U.S. generals are incapable of defeating them on Muslim territory, and because U.S. troops are on that territory. That is, U.S. Marines are shot in Afghanistan because they are there, not because they are U.S. Marines.
Once U.S. forces are withdrawn from Syria, the Islamists naturally will claim victory over America. That may hurt the pride of some Americans, but that’s water off a duck’s back if the nation’s splendid soldier-children are safely back in North America. In addition, minus the U.S. presence, the Islamists’ top priority will shift to killing troops belonging to what will be the main non-Sunni Muslim interventionists in the Sunni Arab world. These military forces include whatever European forces are goofy enough to remain after America leaves; Russian soldiers and mercenaries, Assad, his army, and his Alawite coreligionists, and the heretical Shia troops and militiamen from Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq. The Sunni Islamists, all praise to God, will have no shortage of killable targets to fill their time and attention after U.S. forces depart for home.
The apparent second part of President Trump’s plan has been unfolding in fits and starts since 2016: namely, his initiatives for a border wall and tightly controlled immigration. After U.S. troops withdraw from Syria and Afghanistan, America’s open southern border will remain today — as it was in 2001 — the most dangerous weak point in any national-defense strategy aimed at blunting the Islamist threat. This fact has been so blatantly obvious for so long, that those who have deliberately failed to secure the southern border merit hanging, and perhaps drawing-and-quartering after they are cut down. I noted this in books I published in 2002 and 2005, but made the point at greater length in my 2008 book, Marching Toward Hell, America and Islam after Iraq.
In America’s war with the Islamists the only place to start is with the physical security of the United States. Because our bipartisan elite has refused to control either our borders or illegal immigration, law enforcement agencies at all levels of government – local, state, and federal –have been left without even a fighting chance to defeat our U.S.-based Islamist enemies or those who were coming in from abroad. As long as the immigration-and-borders status quo remains, police agencies will be working against an undocumented pool of aliens that grows by the hour. In this context, the billions of dollars that Washington has spent to install electronic- and bio-detection gear at official border crossings, ports, and airports is of use only if Islamists are stupid enough to walk through an official entry point – whether at Tijuana or Windsor-Detroit – wearing I-love-Osama-T-shirts and carrying AK-47s, explosives, al-Qaeda identification cards, or WMD components. Unfortunately for America, al-Qaeda’s fighters have proven to be anything but stupid, and they are most unlikely to help us defend the United States by exposing themselves to the world’s most sophisticated detection equipment. In essence, we have, since 2001, spent untold billions beefing up official border crossing points … and are now equipped to reliably interdict only unimaginably careless or certifiably idiotic Islamic fighters. …
How to proceed? Well, the best answer would be to deploy the U.S. Army and Marines along U.S. land borders to prevent the entry of illegals until an effective network of fences, trenches, watch towers, radars, and – if necessary – minefields can be built in a crash program along the Canadian and American borders. But the world’s best and most expensive military is deployed overseas in losing Wilsonian wars meant to install secular democracies that Muslims are resisting to the death. And even if U.S. forces were not stretched so thin, those elected to run the federal government have, for decades, failed completely, knowingly, and deliberately, to ensure the physical security of U.S. borders. On this issue, Americans today find themselves in what Thomas Paine described as the “intolerable state” of being “exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without a government.”
If Mr. Trump can make his two-part plan a success, the republic will be in an enviable position: no Sunni mujahedin will be killing U.S. military personnel abroad, and the citizenry will be enjoying a reliable obstacle to Islamists — and all illegal aliens — trying to enter the country. In addition, the national government at last will be able to resume full sovereignty over the territorial domain of the United States in fact, and not merely as a spoken and transparently false claim.
Nearly as important, the citizenry and their leaders will be able to sit comfortably in North America and watch Russians kill Sunnis, and get killed by them; Sunnis kill Russians and Iraqi, Iranian, and Lebanese Shias; Sunni Afghans and their foreign allies killing Russians, Afghan Shia, pro-Western Sunni Afghans, and the soon to arrive Chinese forces. President Xi’s forces will be sent to guard the construction of Xi’s ignorance, madness, and hubris-fueled belt-and-road project that is to pass through China’s Muslim-dominated Xinjiang Province, the states of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Sunni Rohingya-dominated area of Burma. And, with any luck, Erdogan’s Turkey and the panoply of Kurdish groups will get to join this lethal regional fandango.
Military and civilian deaths, as well as Russian, Chinese, and Iranian regime expenditures, will abound and proliferate across the region. And if Mr. Trump can swing it, Americans and their military can watch from home as those the national government has defined as the republic’s enemies merrily murder each other, weaken their regimes and economies, and make the intense Sunni hatred for the United States steadily weaken as Iran, Russia, China and their surrogates feel the full wrath of this and future generations of Allah’s warriors.
Such a magnificent result for the United States and its genuine national interests would clearly show, as the saying goes, that God is truly great, and especially so when you use the commonsense with which He endowed you.
Endnote:
M.F. Scheuer, Marching Toward Hell. America and Islam after Iraq, (New York, 2008), pp. 256-257
