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Iraqiswho only a year ago were cheering
American troopslined the streets in Fallujah in the Sunni Triangle as the charred bodies of four American contract "soldiers" from Blackwater Security Consulting were dragged past them in a scene
so horribly reminiscent of Mogadishu, Somalia became engulfed in Civil War when Muslim strongman Gen. Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown by rival warlords in 1991. The factious warlords could not agree on the composition of a central government since each of them believed he should be named President. Unable to form a government, they carved up the nation into fiefdoms, taking what they could hold by force of arms. It was government by anarchy and lawlessness and chaos reigned supreme. If the United States suddenly pulled out of Iraq, it's a safe bet that within six months Iraq would become the second nation in the world without any central government and no cohesiveness to hold it together. Chaos would rule as the secular Ba'athists, the theological Sunni, the Shi'ites, the Kurds and multi-national al Qaeda rebels attempted to overthrow whatever provisional government was installed by the United States and/or the United Nations. From that initial cancer, factional warfare would quickly ignite the neighboring Muslim nations that are still doing business with the United States and the western industrial nationsand, of course, with Israel. The Jihadic bonfire of Osama bin Laden would then consume the entire Mideast with the same type of hellfire that Saladin's jihad ignited in the Middle East in the 12th century after Christian marauders attacked a caravan in which Saladin's sister was traveling. That jihad led to the Crusades. The Crusades lasted 144 years and ended with the fall of Acre in 1291*. Even less provoca On Dec. 12, 1992, about five weeks before the expiration of his term as President of the United States, George H.W. Bush launched Operation Restore Hope and committed the Clinton Administration and 26.000 American troops to a humanitarian effort in Somalia. Twenty other nations committed 13,000 troops to provide both food supplies and security to war-torn Somalia. Gen. Mohammed Farah Aideed, whose rebels controlled most of the beleaguered nation, welcomed the relief effort, believing he would be able to successfully exploit the Americans into helping him defeat his arch rival, the al Qaeda-backed warlord Ali Mahdi Mohammed who controlled the city of Mogadishu. When he took office, Clinton's Defense Secretary, former Wisconsin Congressman Les Aspin, cut the UNOSOM-2 force to 4,000 regular Army troops and 400 Army Rangers.
Aspin and Clinton decided
that since this was a humanitarian mission in a hostile, highly volatile
land, American peacekeepers should not look like gung-ho warriors
to the In September, 1993 Gen. Colin PowellBush-41's carryover Chairman of the Joint Chiefsasked Aspin to let him beef up the weakened American forces in Somalia with tanks and armored vehicles. Aspin declined Powell's request. The Massacre at Mogadishu happened a few weeks later. Bowing to public pressure when pictures of the dead helicopter pilot being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu hit the screens of America's TV sets, Bill Clinton pulled all American troops out of Somaliaand Saddam Hussein purchased hundreds of copies of the movie, Blackhawk Down. He had discovered America's Achilles Heel and he would learn how to exploit it. As reported extensively by the media during
and shortly after the collapse of organized military resistance in Iraq, Saddam used the video of Blackhawk Down as
a training film for his field commanders and general staff. Saddam was convinced that if the Iraqis killed enough Americans and dragged their
bodies through the streets of Baghdad, America would lose heart with the
war and simply The Constitution of the United States guarantees them the right to passionately advocate their issues. But that "right" has a price. It is very costly. Thus far, their "right" to denounce the American military presence in Iraq has cost 936 moms and dads the right to ever see their sons and daughters againand it has cost thousands of children their father or, in some cases, their mother, because 468 loyal Americans paidwith their blood,for the right of the Tinselton socialists to spew their hate in the name of patriotic compassion. Winning the peace, thanks in good measure those same socialist radicals within the United States has proven to be much harder than winning the war. During the brief Iraqi War, America lost 140 of her own either through fatal accidents or during battle. Winning the peace has been much more costly. The decision by the remaining Fedayeen Ba'athists,and al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and their jihadist friends from neighboring terrorist organizations to specifically target civilians, media personnel and Iraqi women and children was done for one reason and one reason only to impact public opinion in the United States sufficiently to create an outcry that the Democrats could use to force Bush to either pull out of Iraqor to help John Kerry defeat him in November. The Ba'athists know that as President, antiwar activist John Kerry will not have the stomach for tough military decisions. They are certain Kerry would quickly disengage American forces and turn control of the reconstruction of Iraq over to the UNas he blames George W. Bush for the debacle when Iraq becomes another Iranor worse, another Somalia. Add to the Blackhawk Down mentality the divisiveness of the supposedly nonpartisan September 11 Commission hearings in Washington in which the *The first Crusade actually began in 1096, 51 years before the rise of Saladin after the armies of Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless were annihilated by the Seljuks. The Norman barons flocked to the cross after Muslims killed the papal legation in Jerusalem, fielding three divisions which converged on Constantinople. The Normans, allied with Greek forces captured Nicea, the capital of Asia Minor and defeated the Muslm armies at Dorylaeum. Following a bloody battles at Antioch, the Christian army under Godfreyof Bouillon marched triumphantly into Jerusalem and the First Crusade ended in 1099. |
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