Isn’t it tragic that Maj. Stephen Coughlin was isolated and ostracized at the Pentagon by the hoi poloi from SecDef’s office, the State Department, and the White House?

Let me explain why this was an important event, for those who might be wondering what it has to do with the current topic (many interesting viewpoints above, which I enjoyed reading). The enemy has a doctrine for how to fight a war. First, in order to determine that doctrine and to understand it, you have to go to where the enemy gets the doctrine from. The enemy IS Islam. Specifically, the founder of Islam, Muhammad, waged war almost continuously when he and his few followers set foot in Yathrib (Medina), which, by the way, was overwhelmingly a Jewish town (for those who may be curious). Muhammad himself never acted as a warrior on raids or in battles. He directed these attacks, staying well behind the front lines. He only bloodied his sword afterwards when executing captives. Anyway, sowing terror is THE template of Islamic insurgent violence when they are militarily weak, but also when their enemy is culturally and politically weak (even if the enemy is militarily strong). Today we are militarily strong, but politically very weak. Half of our populations do not have the stomach for this fight and would try to buy off the terrorists (it’s called paying the jizya). Muhammad was exceedingly very good at probing his enemy’s weaknesses. He was an extremely shrewd personality disordered narcissist who just knew the weaknesses of others and how to exploit them to his advantage. This is where we find Islamic terror organizations imitating the Prophet.

And this is why the ostracizing of Maj. Coughlin is significant. Because we will not study the enemy’s war doctrine contained within his scriptures and traditions, we will not be able to be effectively organized against the Islamic enemy. You cannot win a war without a doctrine and a strategic vision, which is utterly impossible without naming the enemy.

Sheik Najeri is correctly reading the West as it is right now. Things could change, but I see not important changes on the immediate horizon. He sees a U.S. population in the mood for surrender and escapism. Not all of us are that way. It may even be that a simple majority are not that way at all, but a very large minority have no stomach for this fight. Now that may change in the future and I suspect that running parallel to that change the Left will find itself finally delegitimized and disgraced. If we can just get through the next four years more or less intact I think America will come back. The Party of Jackasses will be on the outs for perhaps decades to come. We might have to kill some judges along the way and take some extraordinary measures to undo what Obonga is going to do, but eventually I think most Americans will be brought back from the brink of a supine insanity.

In the long run I think we are going to win this fight, but we will first have to deal with the nearer enemy, who are the socialists/Communists/”progressives” that want to have a crack at the socialist utopia. The internal enemy will overplay their hand and will be finally exposed for the frauds they are. Once we get that crowd out of the way, Islam as the scourge of human civilization is finished.

And then that sock puppet deity called “Allah” will be just one more false god whose cover has finally been blown. Evil is most effective when we have no name for it and it can hide behind various, deceptive fronts that prey on people’s fears and weaknesses. But once the mask is dropped and the horrifying visage stares people in the face, they “get it” very quickly. For the rest of us, we already “get it” and we note the subtle deceptions.