Yesterday, in "Why a Muslim American killed five American servicemen", I argued that the motivation for the attacks of "domestic terrorists" on military personnel in the USA (and Canada and Britain) was revenge for American interference in the Muslim vs Muslim wars of the Middle East.
Every now and then, a "radicalized Muslim" kills a soldier or two or five. Virtually every day, troops of the "coalition of the willing" put together by Dubya and continued by the Prez kill dozens or scores or even hundreds of innocent Muslims (along with the occasional ISIS fighter) while bringing American goodness and democracy to the sandpit. The innocent Muslims are "collateral damage".
Today, BBC News reports that at least eight soldiers of the Afghan army -- the ones we're supposed to be helping -- were killed by friendly fire in a US air strike, on an army checkpoint in Logar province south of Kabul. Several more Afghan troops were injured in a helicopter attack in broad daylight.
Guess that more than makes up for Chattanooga, eh.
According to the Beeb, there are still more than 13,000 international troops in Afghanistan, about half of them American. And more have remained for longer than President 0 originally ordered, after he acceded to military requests to slow down the withdrawal.
The only active international fighting units are "assisting" Afghan special forces, and that is the mission that the helicopters believed to have been involved in yesterday's attack would have been engaged in. But every day, somewhere in that wretched country, there are air strikes, mostly from unmanned drones. Statistics recently emerged showing that in June more than 100 bombs were dropped -- more than twice as many as in any other month since combat operations ended.
Who were the targets? Whoever was unlucky enough to be on the ground, including the people we're trying to "help". Yet we wonder why they hate us.
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Monday, July 20, 2015
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Why a Muslim American killed five American servicemen
Last October, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau and Martin Couture-Rouleau, Canadian converts to Islam, killed two Canadian soldiers. One was standing on ceremonial guard at the War Memorial in Ottawa. The other was walking to his car, parked near a strip mall near Montréal. Both were unarmed.
It took some time, and a lot of hemming and hawing, before Canada's self-styled Conservative -- but still politically correct -- government admitted that the killers were Muslim. More time passed before they finally disclosed that the "lone wolf shooters" may have been "influenced by ISIS". Surprise, surprise!
Last week, in Chattanooga, Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, killed four US Marines, a Navy sailor, and two other people, before being himself shot by police. Mr. Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait, but grew up in the USA and was by all accounts an unremarkable young man. He was, however, a Muslim, and distressed by the presence of American troops in his native land, not to mention the American "intervention" in the Muslim civil war now raging in the Middle East.
In, "Chattanooga shooter changed after Mideast visit, friend says", CNN tells us that a recent visit to the Middle East turned the late Abdulazeez into what the US government calls a "domestic terrorist". Surprise, surprise!
His friend, Abdulrazzak Brizada, told CNN that Mr. Abdulazeez had changed after spending time in the Middle East and "distanced himself" for the first few months after returning. "Something happened over there," Mr. Brizada said, adding that "he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas. ... I'm sure he had something that happened to him overseas."
The motive that links these three killers of US and Canadian servicemen is revenge. Informed and inspired by ISIS, they sought to visit the sins of the Obama administration (and Obama's lackeys in Canada, the UK, etc) on any Americans (or Canadians, Brits, etc) they could find -- punishment for America's failed foreign policy of meddling in affairs which are really none of its business.
As President O's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, said in a sermon in March of 2014, the chickens are coming home to roost. [This link takes you to a post here on WWW which contains an embedded video of Pastor Wright's sermon. If you're using Firefox, you'll need to activate Adobe Flash Player to see it. Ed.]
We turn now to Ron Paul's compendium of positions, ideas and ideals, Liberty Defined (Grand Central Publishing, 2011). In the chapter headed "Empire", Mr. Paul writes:
"It is not infrequently that I hear members of Congress express their unqualified opinion that it is only the hate-filled Muslim religion that is the source of our problems, and we must pursue the war on terrorism at all costs, even if it does mean preventive war.
"Some well-known neocons say they have never heard any other explanation than the religious hatred that they claim Islam generates. They stick to their argument that anyone who would suggest that our own policies contribute to suicide terrorism is committing virtual treason. Sadly, many Americans have been conditioned to believe this.
"Demagoguing, lying, or denying that no unintentional consequences or blowback result from our invasion, occupation, and bombing of other nations, especially Arab and Muslim countries, presents the greatest danger to our society, freedom, and prosperity."
Further reading: "Perry v. Paul: who's right about American involvement in foreign wars?"
It took some time, and a lot of hemming and hawing, before Canada's self-styled Conservative -- but still politically correct -- government admitted that the killers were Muslim. More time passed before they finally disclosed that the "lone wolf shooters" may have been "influenced by ISIS". Surprise, surprise!
Last week, in Chattanooga, Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, killed four US Marines, a Navy sailor, and two other people, before being himself shot by police. Mr. Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait, but grew up in the USA and was by all accounts an unremarkable young man. He was, however, a Muslim, and distressed by the presence of American troops in his native land, not to mention the American "intervention" in the Muslim civil war now raging in the Middle East.
In, "Chattanooga shooter changed after Mideast visit, friend says", CNN tells us that a recent visit to the Middle East turned the late Abdulazeez into what the US government calls a "domestic terrorist". Surprise, surprise!
His friend, Abdulrazzak Brizada, told CNN that Mr. Abdulazeez had changed after spending time in the Middle East and "distanced himself" for the first few months after returning. "Something happened over there," Mr. Brizada said, adding that "he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas. ... I'm sure he had something that happened to him overseas."
The motive that links these three killers of US and Canadian servicemen is revenge. Informed and inspired by ISIS, they sought to visit the sins of the Obama administration (and Obama's lackeys in Canada, the UK, etc) on any Americans (or Canadians, Brits, etc) they could find -- punishment for America's failed foreign policy of meddling in affairs which are really none of its business.
As President O's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, said in a sermon in March of 2014, the chickens are coming home to roost. [This link takes you to a post here on WWW which contains an embedded video of Pastor Wright's sermon. If you're using Firefox, you'll need to activate Adobe Flash Player to see it. Ed.]
We turn now to Ron Paul's compendium of positions, ideas and ideals, Liberty Defined (Grand Central Publishing, 2011). In the chapter headed "Empire", Mr. Paul writes:
"It is not infrequently that I hear members of Congress express their unqualified opinion that it is only the hate-filled Muslim religion that is the source of our problems, and we must pursue the war on terrorism at all costs, even if it does mean preventive war.
"Some well-known neocons say they have never heard any other explanation than the religious hatred that they claim Islam generates. They stick to their argument that anyone who would suggest that our own policies contribute to suicide terrorism is committing virtual treason. Sadly, many Americans have been conditioned to believe this.
"Demagoguing, lying, or denying that no unintentional consequences or blowback result from our invasion, occupation, and bombing of other nations, especially Arab and Muslim countries, presents the greatest danger to our society, freedom, and prosperity."
Further reading: "Perry v. Paul: who's right about American involvement in foreign wars?"
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