In a nationally televised speech on Wednesday, September 10, Barack Obama announced a four-part plan for dealing with the terrorist organization, ISIS.\u00a0 Here are the four parts of his plan:<\/p>\n
Does his plan have any chance of success?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Airpower alone will not defeat ISIS.\u00a0 To defeat ISIS it will be necessary to take and hold ground and to flush the 30,000 or 40,000 jihadists out of the cities and towns where they hide among women and children.\u00a0 To date, it is only the Kurds who have expressed a willingness to put troops on the ground.\u00a0 We are told that only 5% of the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Muslims are radicalized, but that comes to 70 million radicalized jihadists.\u00a0 To put that into perspective, during World War II the combined uniformed forces of Germany, Japan, and Italy totaled only 34.1 million.<\/p>\n
Would Obama have gone before the TV cameras to announce his plan unless something or someone forced his hand?\u00a0 No, this is a man who actually said in his speech that \u201cISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) is not Islamic.\u201d\u00a0 But just as the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 changed Americans from pacifists to war hawks, literally overnight, the public beheading of two American journalists and a British aid worker has had exactly the same effect.\u00a0 But, while revenge is sweet and it might make us feel good to see a bit of ISIS blood spilled on the desert sands, the Obama plan will accomplish nothing more than to infuriate more and more young Muslims, driving them into the welcoming arms of al-Baghdadi and his army of lunatics.<\/p>\n
So how do we attack the problem?\u00a0 First, while we\u2019re busily engaged in bombing individual cars and trucks with $110,000 Hellfire missiles, just to make us feel as if we\u2019re doing something to eradicate ISIS, we must pursue a strategic two-pronged non-military effort to, a) Separate the good Muslims from the bad by prosecuting radical Islamists here at home, and b) Use whatever means we have at our disposal to change the hearts and minds of Muslims around the world.<\/p>\n
Islam is not a religion, as we understand the term.\u00a0 Rather it is a complete political, judicial, economic, military, and cultural system, masquerading as a religion.\u00a0 Its adherents refuse to assimilate into host country cultures, insisting that they be allowed to exist as an independent entity, not subject to the laws of their host nations.\u00a0 In order to accomplish their ends, they regularly preach the overthrow of their host governments, by violence if necessary.<\/p>\n
Accordingly, we must resolve that, \u201cWhat is sauce for the (Communist) goose is sauce for the (Islamic) gander.\u201d\u00a0 In order to neutralize Islam\u2019s cultural institutions within our country, we must do as I have previously suggested: We must tailor the language of Section 2 of the Communist Control Act of 1954\u2026 a law that has not been struck down by the Supreme Court and which is still on the books\u2026 to read as follows:<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/i>The American people are determined to eliminate from their midst organizations which, purporting to be \u2018religious,\u2019 in the accepted sense of that term, are conspirators dedicated to the destruction of our form of government by force and violence\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cThe Congress hereby finds and declares that Islam, although purportedly a religious sect, is in fact an instrumentality of a foreign conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.\u00a0 It constitutes an authoritarian dictatorship within a republic, demanding for itself the rights and privileges accorded to individuals of other religious denominations, but denying to all others the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution\u2026\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cAs a segment of the U.S. population, Islam is relatively small, numerically, and gives scant indication of its capacity ever to attain its ends by lawful means.\u00a0 The peril inherent in the existence of Islam arises not from its numbers, but from its failure to acknowledge any limitation as to the nature of its activities, and its dedication to the proposition that the present system of government of the United States ultimately must be brought to ruin by any available means, including resort to force and violence.\u00a0 Holding that doctrine, its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear and present danger to the security of the United States.\u00a0 It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of Islam, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their revolutionary services.\u00a0 Therefore, the organization known as Islam shall be outlawed in the United States.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
With that statute on the books we can make it very uncomfortable for radical Islamists.\u00a0 We can make their presence in our country so unpleasant that they will long for a return to whatever hellhole they and their predecessors crawled out of.\u00a0 With eyes and ears planted in every mosque and every Muslim cultural center in America, radical Imams such as the late Anwar al-Awlaki could be readily identified and FBI agents could quickly make arrests.<\/p>\n
And finally, we Americans have always prided ourselves on our ingenuity.\u00a0 Whatever problems we\u2019ve confronted, we have found ways to solve them.\u00a0 So let\u2019s use that ingenuity to change, to the extent possible, the hearts and minds of Muslims around the world.\u00a0 Consider this example:\u00a0\u00a0 I suggest that we conduct a major SOFTWAR campaign utilizing a photographic projection technique called \u201cholography,\u201d the creation of images that appear to be three dimensional, when in fact they are only images created by focused beams of laser light.<\/p>\n
We already have made-to-order audiences: hundreds of jihadists and other soldiers of the faith, warehoused in various CIA black sites, as well as prison compounds in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.\u00a0 The only thing missing is the Prophet Mohammed, himself.<\/p>\n
Scientists have been working since 1947 to perfect 3-dimensional holographic imaging, but the greatest advances in the art were made by physicist Lloyd Cross in 1972.\u00a0 Cross developed the integral hologram by combining white light transmission holography with conventional cinematography to produce lifelike moving 3-dimensional images.\u00a0 It gives special effects technicians the ability to produce the Prophet Mohammed, in three dimensions and in living color, and we can make him deliver any message we want, to any audience we assemble.<\/p>\n
Imagine the scene in the Pulacharke Prison in Afghanistan, a thousand-year-old stone structure the size of a small gymnasium, filled with radical Muslim clerics and an assortment of al Qaeda and Taliban faithful.\u00a0 And imagine that one moonless night, at midnight, the Prophet Mohammed appears to the sleeping throng, his image floating in mid-air, high in a corner of the room, some fifteen or twenty feet above the floor.<\/p>\n
In a loud booming voice, with a slight echo chamber quality, the Prophet would awaken the terrified throng.\u00a0 His reason for returning, he would say, is to tell the radical Islamists that they have misinterpreted his teachings and that he looks with great disfavor upon the radical Islamic interpretation of the Quran.\u00a0 He would declare that Islamic jihad is a great sin, it is Hirabah<\/i> (prohibited war against society), and that ISIS leader Bakr al Baghdadi is the leader of the Mufsidoon<\/i> (evil-doers condemned by the Koran).\u00a0 He would tell them that all those who follow the evil ways of ISIS and the Taliban will suffer Jahannam<\/i> (eternal hellfire) unless they repent.<\/p>\n
With the flick of a switch he would be gone, leaving his listeners trembling in terror at what they had just witnessed.\u00a0 Could the \u201csecond coming of Mohammed\u201d be staged in such a way that the faithful would be left with no doubt that they\u2019d actually seen the Prophet and heard his words?\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 If the \u201csecond coming\u201d were properly planned and executed, we could even tell those who witnessed our artful hoax what we\u2019d done and they\u2019d never believe us.\u00a0 With the average jihadi having the intellectual capacity of an angry chimpanzee, it would be impossible to convince such primitive minds that they had not actually seen the Prophet.<\/p>\n
What I suggest may sound a bit \u201coff the wall,\u201d but is it?\u00a0 There is nothing new about the use of the elaborate hoax as an instrument of war.\u00a0 World War II is replete with such stories.\u00a0 Given the computerized advances in cinematic special effects, today\u2019s special effects technicians could produce absolute miracles.\u00a0 And while it may not be kosher to mess around with someone else\u2019s religion, in the present circumstance we are dealing with religious fanatics whose only goal in life is to kill us all, and for no other reason than that we exist.\u00a0 Our lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren, hang in the balance.\u00a0 Drastic measures are called for.<\/p>\n
Unlike soldiers of civilized cultures, jihadists cannot be captured, imprisoned, and sent off to \u201creeducation\u201d camps\u2026 they can only be killed.\u00a0 And since we can\u2019t begin to think of killing 70 million jihadists, it\u2019s time we got serious about finding more creative ways of defeating the most barbaric enemy in all of recorded history.<\/p>\n
Thomas Friedman said it best in a September 13 editorial in the New York Times.\u00a0 <\/i>He wrote, \u201cOur staying power is ambiguous, our enemy is barbarous, our regional allies are duplicitous, our European allies are feckless, and the Iraqis and Syrians we\u2019re trying to help are fractious.\u00a0 There is not a straight shooter in the bunch.\u00a0 Other than that, it\u2019s just like D-Day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a nationally televised speech on Wednesday, September 10, Barack Obama announced a four-part plan for dealing with the terrorist organization, ISIS.\u00a0 Here are the four parts of his plan: A systematic campaign of airstrikes against terrorists. Increased support for … Continue reading