This is how Daniel Greenfield begins his latest article, "Once upon a time it was the objective of the military to win wars. Now the objective of the military is to avoid incidents." Most of us over the past eleven years know this to be true. We know that it is only getting worse with Left-wing leadership in politics, the media, and the military. We know it to be true because our military is now not only instructed to sympathize with our enemy, but are ordered to turn their backs to the enemy and get murdered by them.
Below is an excerpt of Greenfields article. It is important to read it all because if this trend is not stopped and turned around, we have no hope of a secure future. As Greenfield concludes, "The war of words, the conflict of images and videos, the clash of
arguments, has become the sum of war. And that war is unwinnable because
it must be fought on two fronts, against the cultural enemies within
and the insurgents outside."
Incidentism
An incident happens when civilians are killed, prisoners mistreated or
some other event that is photographed, videotaped and then flashed
around the world. This results in an Incident, capital I, that triggers
much artificial soul-searching by the media which spends the next two
years beating the incident to death and flogging its corpse across
television programs, newspaper articles, books, documentaries and
finally, if it's a big enough incident, a real life movie version that
is based on the book, which was based on the article, where the
idealistic reporter/lawyer/activist who uncovered the truth about the
incident will be played by Matt Damon or George Clooney.
The main objective of the military in most civilized countries is to
prevent this chain of articles, programs, books, documentaries,
dramatized plays and Matt Damon movies from coming about by making sure
that no Incident can ever happen. And the best way to do that is by not
fighting. And if the enemy insists on fighting, then he must be fought
with razor sharp precision so that no collateral damage takes place. And
if someone must die, it had better be our own soldiers, rather than
anyone on the other side whose death might be used as an Incident.
Incidentism isn't derived from a fear of Matt Damon movies, but from the
perception that wars are not won on the battlefield, but in the minds
of men. And that perception has a good deal to do with the kind of wars
we choose to fight.
The military, whether in the United States or Israel, does not exist to
win wars. It exists to win over the people who don't want it to win a
war.
The guiding principle in such conflicts is to use the military to push
back the insurgency long enough to win over the local population with a
nation building exercise. This program has never worked out for the
United States, but that doesn't mean that generations of military
leaders don't insist on going through the motions of applying it anyway. (continue reading at Sultan Knish)
As an eighteen year old High School graduate 1952 saw two choices for me, go to college, or join the Army. I was not ready to be taught any more as I thought I knew everything! I Joined the Army.
At a tender age of 18 I was introduced to the very neccessity of self preservation, inorder to survive I had to learn how to defend myself as well as my comrads, and and to look out for all of our unit. None of us wanted to Kill, but if it was us or them, we perfer it be them. Many many Americans were saved by that practice.
Now, the best trained and equipped Military in the world must ask permission in order to Kill someone trying to kill us. I am happy I served, and am very sad to see our talents wasted from thousands of years of Hate and killing.
Posted by: williebill | November 19, 2012 at 05:58 PM