‘Know Your Enemy And Victory Will Be Yours’.
The Corollary would then be, ‘Failure To Know Your Enemy Will End In Defeat’.
Sun Tzu of the Zhou Dynasty spoke those words some 500 hundreds years before the birth of Christ.
They were as true then, as they are now.
Which leads me to the ending of my most recent Blog where I admitted that I was not certain who would come out victorious in the War between The Islamists and the Secular West.
Realistically speaking, I believe the end game will not favour the Islamists…for many reasons…but that may be wishful thinking on my part. What is true though is that in the meantime the Islamists will cause great carnage to us in the West in fact they have been doing just that.
The greatest fear though is only spoken of in the corridors of power, and that is that these Extremists will successfully launch a nuclear attack on one of our cities with a portable launcher. The numbers killed and wounded would be in the millions and dear reader, such an outcome is not beyond the balance of possibilities.
So that takes us back to Sun Tzu.
Do we really know who are enemy is?
I’d say no and use as exhibit one the stance taken by the Leader of the Free World …the current occupant of the White House – who for nearly five years now has refrained from even using the word Terrorist to describe these thugs.
For the first time he lowered himself to do so just that after the recent Boston Marathon massacre. But did you notice, he did not say who these “Terrorists” were. In fact, he went out of his way to say they could not be categorized.
If you are going to beat your enemy …best them at war … you need to have a good idea as to who they are. Just ask Sun Tzu.
And can you just imagine Churchill saying in his famous ‘we will fight them on the beaches speech’ including in that speech – “whoever they turn out to be?”
But that is exactly what we are left with today.
I suspect that if we asked 10 different people Who are common enemy is since 9/11, we’d get 10 completely different answers:
1. It is Al Qaeda;
2. It is Extreme Muslims;
3. It is all Sunnis and / or all Shiites;
4. It is all Muslims;
5. It is Iran;
6. It is anyone..any where who deals in terror;
7. It is the United States since it is the root cause of Middle East extremism;
8. It is the United States who are doing these acts to blame others;
9. It is the Jews;
10. It is the Christians;
And so on and so on.
So Who Exactly Is It?
These Terrorists we are at war with are the Extreme Muslims who kill others, even other Muslims, for their petty religious purposes.
And yet our politicians and our liberal media is loath to say just that. Label it Political Correctness. So we end up getting 10 separate answers to the same question.
But more troublesome – much more troublesome is the fact that failure to identify our common enemy makes a concerted effort to defeat them impossible.
One last thing. Muslim Terrorists come in two colours:
The first are the Al Qaeda’s largely composed of Extreme Sunnis.
The second are more the State Sponsored Muslim Terrorists exemplified by the rogue states of Iran and Syria. Both states contain Shiite Majorities.
That of course does not mean that all Sunnis and all Shiites are Terrorists… not at all.
They only become Terrorists when they murder and maim in the name of their God. Of note here, Extreme Sunnis and Extreme Shiites dislike one another.
In that regard, maybe the West should just sit back and let those two extremists groups have at each other.
But first of course we would have to admit they are our enemy.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
