Via BLACKFIVE: The fight in Afghanistan
May 22nd, 2007 by GoldFalcon
BLACKFIVE: The fight in Afghanistan
Matt has an excerpt from a buddy in Afghanistan up over at Blackfive today, and in that excerpt this NCO touches on what, I think, ought to be the number one talking point in this War on Terror. Sad to say that it is the single least touched on point by the Administration and one that has never been adequately explained to the public. It is the point that needs to be continuously hammered home: the War on Terror is where you find it.
To quote the post directly,
Evidently, it also eludes the likes of Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha, who seem to think the “real” war on terror is only here in Afghanistan. I’ve got a news flash for those two morons; the War on Terror is wherever Al-Qaeda is or the Taliban hang out. When they try to move against American interests, we are going to be there waiting for them…
How this is not painfully apparent I’ll never know, but it is clear from four years of “Iraq wasn’t responsible for September 11th and Al-Qaeda wasn’t there until we got there!”, that many people are still foggy on this point.
It doesn’t matter that Al-Qaeda may or may not have been present in Iraq before 2003. Whether they were or weren’t is irrelevant. They are inarguably there now and we should fight them where we find them. It doesn’t matter that the Iraq invasion may or may not have been based on faulty intelligence. It’s irrelevant. The fact is that –WMD’s or not– our enemies are now fighting us in Iraq, regardless of what circumstances got us there. Not fighting them there is irresponsible, pulling out and leaving them there is retreat, if we fail to re-engage them then it is a defeat.
This simple rule, “Fight Your Enemies Wherever You Find Them” has been a mantra of Islamic terrorists since long before we even knew we were in a war. They have consistently taken the fight to us for decades by highjacking our aircraft, highjacking our boats, attacking our troops engaged in peacekeeping operations, attacking our military installations, attacking naval vessels, slaughtering our civilians, and attacking our own soil –amazingly attacking the same target on our own soil twice. Be it in Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Somalia, Yemen, Scotland, Iran, New York, Washington DC, Lebanon, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Pennsylvania, our enemies have never hesitated to attack us wherever they can find us in thirty long years of war, which leads me to believe that they will not fail to do so in the future.
That is, unless we start killing them wherever we find them, en masse, and without equivocation, regardless of wherever that “wherever” may be.
