a small dose of reality

This is the most cogent and powerful essay on the threat of Islamic
terrorism I have seen. Dr. Vernon Chong. It is without a doubt the most
 articulate and convincing writing I have read regarding the War in Iraq.
 If you have any doubts please open your mind to his essay and give it a
 fair evaluation. It's also eerily applicable to other current issues
 such as Iran's nuclear program, immigration, NAFTA's impact on American
 jobs, trade deficits, etc.. I had no idea who Dr. Chong is, or the
 source of these thoughts, so when I received them I almost deleted them,
 as well- written as they are. But then I did a Google search on the
 Doctor and found him to be a retired Air Force surgeon and past
 commander of Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio.
 If you would like to see who this fellow is, go to this Air Force web
 site and look him up:
  http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5000

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 Subject: Muslims, terrorist and the USA : A different spin on Iraq war.

This WAR is for REAL!
 Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country
 is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it,
 that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).

 The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are
 very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer
 who realize what losing really means. First, let's examine a few basics:

 1. When did the threat to us start?
     Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United
     States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with
     the following attacks on us:
            * Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
            * Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
            * Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
            * Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
            * First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
            * Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
            * Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
            * Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
            * A! den, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
            * New York World Trade Center 2001;* Pentagon 2001.
 (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581
 terrorist attacks worldwide).

 2. Why were we attacked?
     Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks
     happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush,
     Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats
     as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or their
     immediate predecessor, President Ford.
 3. Who were the attackers?
     In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.
 4. What is the Muslim population of the World? --- 25%.
 5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
 Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the
 predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under
 the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian (?)), that
 made no difference. You either went along with the administration or you
 were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million
 Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000
 Polish priests).
 (see http://www.Nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm ;
 http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm) Thus, almost the same number
 of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the six million holocaust
 Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than
 the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the
 Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of
 exterminating the Jews or of
 taking over the world - German, Christian or any others. Same with the
 Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US , but kill all in the
 way -- their own people or the Spanish, British, French or anyone else.
 The point here is that just like the peaceful
 Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how
 many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from
 the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing
 -- by their own pronouncements -- killing all of us "infidels."
 I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice
 was shut up or die?
 6. So who are we at war with?
 There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than
 the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid
 verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if
 you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

 So with that background, now to the two major questions:
 1. Can we lose this war?
 2. What does losing really mean?
 If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions:
 We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the
 major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the
 answer to the second question - What does losing mean?
 It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means
 hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our
 business, like post-Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can
 get .
 What losing really means is: We would no longer be the premier country
 in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily
 increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just
 wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of
 attacks against us, over the past 18 years. The plan was, clearly, for
 terrorists to attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them.
 We would, of course, have no future support from other nations, for fear
 of reprisals and for the reason that they would see; we are impotent and
 cannot help them.
 They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will
 be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It
 doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its
 troops from Iraq . Spain did it because the Muslim
 terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops.
 Anything else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.

 The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they
 might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished
 too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us.
 However, it may already be too late for France. France is
 already 20% Muslim and fading fast!

 Without our support Great Britain will go too. Recently I read that
 there are more mosques in England than churches. If we lose the war, our
 production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know
 it. After losing, who would trade or deal
 with us if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the
 Muslim terrorists, how could anyone else?

 The radical Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and
 therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better
 know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost. Why do I
 go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple.

 Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put
 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take
 that 100% effort to win.

 So, how can we lose the war?
 Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That
 is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their
 purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war
 effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we
 continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win! Let me give you
 a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death
 seriousness of this situation.
 President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
 Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men
 between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow
 profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously?
 This is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of
 the civil rights we have become accustomed. We had better be prepared to
 all of them permanently. And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We
 gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII, and immediately restored
 them after the victory and in fact added many more since then.

 Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame
 us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness,
 and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a
 clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them
 out of your head.

 Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the
 Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us
 lose. I think some actually do, I hasten to add that this isn't because
 they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what
 losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the
 enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it
 does great damage to our cause.

 Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media
 regarding the
 treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am
 saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few
 Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police. These
 are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own
 people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues
 and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with
 Saddam Hussein.

 And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed
 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same
 type of enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and
 dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still
 more recently, >the same type of enemy that was and is providing videos
 to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American
 prisoners they held.

 Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several
 days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of
 some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred
 corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.
 Can they be for real?

 The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the
 Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of
 comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are
 fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous
 results of losing this war, nothing can.

 To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this
 prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned
 -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we,
 nor any other country, can survive this internal strife.
 Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media
 people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious
 to the magnitude of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim
 terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.

 These people are a serious and dangerous liability to the war effort.
 We must take note of who they are and get them out of office. Remember,
 the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels! That
 translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United States, but
 throughout the world. We are the last bastion of defense.

 We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge
 is valid. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good,
 powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those
 who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can
 defeat anything bad in the world! We can't! If we don't recognize this,
 our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in
 the world will survive if we are defeated.

 And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow
 freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of
 the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status
 or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way
 that contributes to the good of the world. This has been a long way of
 saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the
 history books to the self- inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that
 is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read.

 If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims
 take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to
 increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little
 by little, on the established French traditions.
 The French will be fighting among themselves, over what should or
 should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them
 from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar? Democracies
 don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military
 force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece
 by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away to
 those who have shown, worldwide that they abhor freedom and will not
 apply it to you or even
 to themselves, once they are in power. Muslims have universally shown
 that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each
 other over whom will be the few who control the masses. What is
 happening in Iraq is a good example. Will we ever stop hearing from the
 politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?

 I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are
 united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now, after the
 election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the
 critical situation>we are in, and will unite to save our country. It
 is your future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve
 it. I reiterate. A national election is months away. After reading the
 above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our children, our
 grandchildren, our country and the world. Whether Democrat or
 Republican, Conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians
 and media of our country and the free world!

 Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it. Our
"leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too. There are those that find
 fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks
 through this, that we must UNITE!

 Lastly, I wish to add: At the risk of offending someone, I sincerely
 think that anyone who rejects this as just another political rant, or
 doubts the seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without sending
 it on, is part of the problem. Let's quit laughing at and forwarding the
 jokes and cartoons which denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this war
 against terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well being
 of the US and it's citizens. Best we support them.

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