{"id":1752,"date":"2012-09-29T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2012-09-29T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T19:00:32","slug":"ami-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"AMI, GO HOME!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the break of dawn, January 25, 1954, I disembarked from the USNS Geiger at Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 1,505 of my fellow soldiers, all members of U.S. 7th<\/sup> Army post-World War II occupation forces.<\/p>\n

We were loaded onto train cars, and with the temperature in the low 20\u2019s, with insufficient food, and with four men and their duffel bags to each compartment, we headed south toward the U.S. 7th<\/sup> Army reception center at Zweibrucken.\u00a0 It was an extremely uncomfortable trip, and as we traveled south through the West German countryside we saw occasional examples of graffiti painted on the sides of buildings, urging \u201cAMI, GO HOME!\u201d and \u201cYANK, GO HOME!\u201d\u00a0 Our welcome toGermany was a chilly one, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

However, the thought occurs to me that I can now fully understand the sentiment.\u00a0 If I were in Afghanistan today, there\u2019s a good chance I could be found with a can of spray paint in hand, painting \u201cAMI, GO HOME\u201d on the sides of walls and buildings.<\/p>\n

More and more, it appears as if we are fighting a war, not for some grand ideal, and not in support of family and flag, but just for the sake of fighting a war and to keep Democrats from being branded as \u201csoft on Islamic fundamentalism.\u201d\u00a0 Far too many people, in and out of government, in and out of the military, fear that if we were to pack up and leave we would look like losers after spending so much blood and treasure there with no identifiable \u201cvictory.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is nothing to be gained by our continued presence in Afghanistan and it\u2019s time to bring our troops home.\u00a0 If we have not learned by now that the people of Islam are a tribal culture, still living in the 7th<\/sup> century, then we may never learn it.<\/p>\n

What has allowed humankind to develop the degree of civilization that we now enjoy, even allowing for occasional instances of war and rebellion, is the concept of \u201clive and let live\u201d that nations and religions have applied across borders and around the world.\u00a0 The only exception to that rule is the world of Islam.\u00a0 Muslims have never bought into the notion of \u201clive and let live,\u201d and it is unlikely that they will ever do so.\u00a0 This has never been more evident than in remarks made in recent days by the top leaders of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

Al-Quds Day is an annual event, celebrated in many Arab countries on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan\u2026 the only religious tradition that Barack Obama regularly celebrates at the White House.\u00a0 And while Obama uses the occasion to honor Islam, civilized societies elsewhere see it as an opportunity to remind ourselves of what is in the hearts and minds of Muslim leaders.<\/p>\n

In a recent al Qud\u2019s Day speech to a crowd of worshipers at Tehran University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, \u201cThe existence of (Israel) is an insult to all humanity\u2026 The Zionist regime and the Zionists are a cancerous tumor\u2026 The nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land\u2026 With the grace of God and help of the nations in the new Middle East there will be no trace of the Americans and Zionists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ayatollah Khatami, a senior Iranian<\/a> Ayatollah and a senior member of the Iranian Assembly of Experts<\/a>, said, \u201cQuran states that in facing the Zionists, one must use force\u2026 God willing, soon the removal of Israel from the world will come together for the Muslims\u2026 They have seen our missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers in the Islamic Republic\u2019s exercises, and in case of an attack, Tel Aviv will turn into ashes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does anyone, other than Barack Obama, still wonder why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the dramatic step of standing before the United Nations General Assembly, drawing a bold red line across the symbolic drawing of a nuclear bomb?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Egypt, an August 9 report by El Balad<\/a>, a widely read Egyptian website, reports\u00a0 on atrocities committed against supporters of Tawfik Okasha\u2026 a vocal critic of newly elected President Mohammed Morsi\u2026 who openly opposes radical Islamic fundamentalism.\u00a0\u00a0 El Balad reports that, on August 8, as Okasha\u2019s supports gathered around the presidential palace, they were surrounded by Muslim Brotherhood supporters who \u201cattacked them with sticks, knives, and Molotov cocktails, crucifying some of them on trees.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Two were killed and dozens of others wounded.<\/p>\n

Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow Clare Lopez<\/a> cited chapter and verse from the Quran to explain that crucifixions are not simply normal for Islam, they\u2019re required.\u00a0 Lopez explains that \u201cCrucifixion is a hadd<\/em> punishment, stipulated in the Quran (Sura 5:33).\u00a0 It is an obligatory part of Sharia Law.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a traditional punishment within Islam\u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n

So, as much as we would like to believe otherwise, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood do not have the option to exclude crucifixion from their legal code.\u00a0 Lopez voices a warning for Egypt\u2019s Coptic Christians and compares the coming treatment of Egypt\u2019s Christians to the Jews in Germany.\u00a0 She warns, \u201cThe Copts must get out of Egypt as soon as possible.\u00a0 For the many millions who will not be able to get out, I expect things will continue to deteriorate, just as they did for Germany\u2019s and Europe\u2019s Jews from the 1930s onward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations planned for August 24 in Cairo and elsewhere, Al Azhar, Egypt’s most authoritative Islamic institution, issued a fatwa<\/em><\/a> calling for more violence and oppression, saying, \u201cFighting participants in the anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations is a religious obligation<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Syria, the beleaguered President Bashar al-Assad goes on murdering his own people by the tens of thousands while the rest of the world, except for Assad\u2019s friends, Russia and Iran, stands idly by.\u00a0 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that, \u201cAt least 19,106 people, most of them civilians, have been killed since March last year.\u00a0 They include 13,296 civilians, 4861 regime troops and 949 defectors\u2026 The toll does not include the thousands of people missing in detention.\u00a0 Nor does it include thousands of soldiers whose deaths the regime has concealed in a bid to keep the army\u2019s morale high.\u201d<\/p>\n

While human life is valued in every culture in the civilized world, in Islam it is not.\u00a0 And while the Christian Bible and the Jewish Torah dictate that \u201cthou shalt not kill,\u201d the Muslim Quran commands Muslims to kill all non-Muslims.\u00a0 Ultimately, the only choice for Christians, Jews, and others is to either convert to Islam, or die.<\/p>\n

Civilized people the world over can come to only one conclusion: that civilized societies simply cannot coexist with Islam if Muslims are allowed to infiltrate unrestricted.\u00a0 It may be that the only way for non-Muslim cultures to coexist with Islam is if Muslims are quarantined to live in self-inflicted misery in a part of the world set aside for them by non-Islamic nations.<\/p>\n

In Libya, for example, we have had an American ambassador and three other diplomats brutally murdered by Islamic fundamentalists.\u00a0 At the same time, American embassies and consulates across the Islamic world are attacked and our flag desecrated.\u00a0 Should we not be questioning whether or not it is even possible to conduct normal diplomatic relations with such savages?<\/p>\n

And while Barack Obama goes before the United Nations General Assembly to speak of the \u201ccommon humanity\u201d shared by Islam and the Christian world, the Turkish Prime Minister uses the very same podium to demand that the worlds body declare \u201cIslamophobia\u201d to be a \u201ccrime against humanity.\u201d\u00a0 The British commentator, Pat Condell points out that Islam \u201cshould be as welcome on this planet as an asteroid,\u201d and that, \u201cgiven the evidence, there is a much stronger case for making Islam a \u2018crime against humanity.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

In Afghanistan, the so-called \u201cgreen-on-blue\u201d attacks by Afghan military and security personnel against American military personnel now stands at more than 100.\u00a0 Since the beginning of 2012, there have been 32 such attacks resulting in 40 American deaths.<\/p>\n

In one recent attack, an Afghan security officer lured a team of U.S. soldiers to a Ramadan meal under the pretext of discussing security matters with them.\u00a0 He then opened fire on them, killing three and wounding another.\u00a0 In taking credit for the ambush, the Taliban released a video in which the Afghan soldier smiles at the camera, and says, \u201cI opened fire on three Americans who were sitting together.\u00a0 The reason I killed them is because they have occupied our country.\u00a0 They are enemies of our religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s time to heed the advice of the graffiti on the wall: \u201cAMI!\u00a0 GO HOME!\u201d<\/p>\n

Our only reason for being in Afghanistan today is to allow Barack Obama to prove his manhood.\u00a0 As a strategic rationale, Obama\u2019s manhood is not worth a superficial scratch on the ass of a single American soldier or Marine.<\/p>\n

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