In
the war of ideologies, there is no more frustrating battle than the battle for
truth. In the battle for truth, there is no more frustrating effort than trying
to enlighten the hard-headed. Our enemy has been telling us for decades who he
is and what his intent is. He has shown us over, and over again that he is
committed to defeating us and has used every means at his disposal to that end.
In
just as frustrating a fashion, our leadership has seen fit to ignore those
facts as if seemingly to muse; "oh,
you're just funnin' us!". As discussed here in the past, the Pentagon
actually hired an expert on the subject, who delivered a message that was apparently
"too much to bear" and who was summarily fired for his effort. As
this operation ages, two things will continue to be true; one, the ROE will become increasingly
tighter and deadlier for our troops and, two, that Stephen Coughlin's warning
about Islam was dead-on-the-money!
Even
as we have watched our Afghan allies turn their weapons on their trainers - our
Warriors, on a seemingly regular basis, we have chosen to discount those reoccurring
incidences as aberration rather than heed them as omens.
Andrew
Bostom sent me the link to a story that should cause the
"see-no-evil" stalwarts in our government to question their
"faith in all mankind" attitude. After the latest incident that left
yet another American contractor working for the CIA dead from gunshot wounds, Waheed
Mujhda, of the Afghan Analytical and Advisory Center in Kabul was
quoted as saying:
"This is a big
security concern for the Americans and it shows they can't fully trust their
Afghan staff. But the Americans never want to accept that there are serious
trust and cooperation issues and they have encountered that in their security
operations with Afghan forces."
Also keep in mind that recently, the Taliban claimed not
only collusion with the Haqqani network but that Haqqani was in fact Afghan.
This is important in that our intelligence has them slipping back and forth
across the Durand line with one of their last, missions being the attack on the
American Embassy in Kabul. Add
to this Admiral Mullen's admission/allegation that Haqqani has been working
hand-in-hand with the Pakistani ISI, and what you have is a
particularly virulent enemy with the backing of a legitimate state agency - a
country we have deemed an "an ally" in the "war on terror".
It seems we may have to declare Pakistan a terrorist haven instead!
This story ties the Pakistani's
directly to the killing of an American Army Major just moments after a
meeting with Pakistani officials, in 2007, in Teri Mengal. As the story states,
the reasoning seems to be for revenge. How that mitigates the egregious nature
of the attack on Americans by a presumed "ally" is beyond my ability
to reason as is Washington's intent to keep it quiet. What is clear, is that
the nature and scope of the enemy is more publicly obvious now than it has been
for all of these last ten years.
Will the American public finally begin to realize this and
hold this government more accountable? I guess we will see in the next 15
months.
A better question is how our intelligence apparatus could
have so completely screwed up the analysis of what is so complex a threat? Or
is it that our intelligence agencies have been ignored or their reports
downplayed in an effort to massage some unholy alliance either with foreign
players or with internal minorities? What is certain is that more reports and
evidence of collusion between those we have chosen to trust and our
"enemies" is surfacing by the day.
If there is a glimmer of light emanating from down the long
hallway of insanity, it is that some of our agencies, at least, seem to be
planning for what is apparently not politically palatable - or correct. This
FBI training video, while dry, makes it clear that the agency
understands the threat to be larger than the small cells our politicians seem
to be focused on. Even the British have been forced to face the reality of working
with a duplicitous "ally" and a report to that extent is strongly recommending
each and every
British Soldier working with the ANA or ANP - be armed…You think??
Of course if one can apply Newton's Laws of Motion to the
seeming randomness of actions from within our government, then you would need
to find an opposing force to the FBI's apparent epiphany. One need not look
further than the DOD's Defense
Science Board Task Force and their
report dated April 25 2011. From the report, page four:
"…the
final report of the DSB Task Force on Defense Intelligence, Counterinsurgency
(COIN) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operations study.
The Task Force was asked to identify how Department of Defense (DoD)
intelligence can most effectively support COIN operations."
So
for all of the studying, daily revelations of collusion between state agencies,
Islamic militant groups, cross-border operations and a dissipating confidence
in the trustworthiness of the ANA and ANP recruits we are training, COIN support
appears to be alive and well - regardless!
What's
that old adage about beating your head against a wall?
Semper
Fidelis;
John
Bernard
