CIA needs to be entirely cashiered. And we need to start afresh and build ourselves a war-waging, war-winning, deadly serious intelligence agency.
We should call it the OSS, so as to demonstrate the enormity of its task and the gravity we attach to our war effort.
The gloves have to come off.
We need to establish a new Operation Phoenix program, whose parameters should extend throughout the entire middle east.
The Syrians have no problems whacking pro-Western Lebanese, we should have no problem repaying the compliment, by targeting hyperbolic mullahs. We need to send a message that you may crawl out from under a rock, and through the funding of various petro-sheiks may climb up into a pulpit, but we’re watching, we’re listening, and at an hour of our choosing, we’re going to plaster you and send your sorry ass to judgement.
The gloves have to come off. We are simply not capable of waging a true ideological war against the message of the mullahs. EVEN IF WE WERE SO INCLINED, which our State Department and CIA are not, even if we wanted to do so, those societies are closed, and we’re so lost in a fog of moral, religious and cultural relativism that we wouldn’t even know how to formulate such a message.
In the ’50s, our forefathers KNEW how to challenge the Soviets and their message. They killed commies in the third world, and founded think tanks, funded trade unions, started periodicals and newspapers to challenge the socialist zeitgeist. Today, other than people like Gingrich and Kristol, do we have anyone equal to the challenge.
I don’t think so.
Better to start whacking them, we’ll worry about civilizing them later. Destroy the jihadists, engage them on grounds of our choosing if we can, engage them on grounds of theirs if we must, but carry the war to them. And impose our will upon them. Deliver the tutorial we delivered to the Japanese and the German. The Japanese and the German had supremacist delusions, but not after we got done with them. That’s the attitude we should have towards our new enemies, which are really our destined enemy, our old enemy, the enemy we were fated to confront.
As the United States could not continue to exist “half slave, half free,” so now it’s becoming clear that the world cannot continue “half shariaa, half free.” The Stars and Stripes was always going to be challenged by totalitarian islam. There was no getting away from that.
So be it.
Not a very pleasant situation is it? But if you think about it, would any of you prefer being the friends of the house of al saud, friends of the mullahs in Tehran, friends of the Assads, friends of the Arafats of this existence. Isn’t it far better to be their enemies, before history, before God and before conscience, isn’t it far better that the whole world should know that we are mortal enemies with such creatures. Isn’t that the truth?
My friends are the British, the Australians, the Israelis. And those are precisely the friends that I would like to have.
