11-09-2007, 06:20 PM
This is a long read but for those of you that believe in our country, it is worth it.
If this author is really who he claims to be, this quite a sobering way
to put our current crisis in this country!!
AN INCREDIBLY SOBER ASSESSMENT OF OUR CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION
Please, take the time to read this !!
Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the Middle East
problems, this one is from the guy who had his finger on the nuclear
trigger for three years as head of our defense and response complex
buried under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs. He was the only
person who could initiate a nuclear attack after advising the sitting
president of a missile launch by our enemies and our need to respond. No
political or civilian type in the US had more knowledge about day to day
military actions around the world. Everyone should find quiet time to
read this. As far as I am concerned, it is exactly the direction we
should go and the consequences of not doing so are well thought out.
John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired) Middle East
Imperative
BY: JIM CASH, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.
I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against
radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put this
conflict in proper perspective.
Understand, the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger
than just Iraq. What happens in the next year will affect this country
and how our kids and grandkids live throughout their lifetime, and
beyond. Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the seventh
century. They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the point
of taking hundreds of years to recover. But they can never be totally
defeated. Their birth rates are so far beyond civilized world rates that
in time they recover and attempt to dominate again.
There are eight terror-sponsoring countries that make up the grand
threat to the West. Two , Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, just need firm
pressure from the West to make major reforms. They need to decide who
they are really going to support and commit to that support. That answer
is simple. They both will support who they think will hang in there
until the end, and win. We are not sending very good signals in that
direction right now, thanks to the Democrats.
The other six, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and
Libya will require regime change or a major policy shift. Now, let's
look more closely. Afghanistan and Iraq have both had regime changes,
but are being fueled by outsiders from Syria and Iran. We have scared
Gaddafi's pants off, and he has given up his quest for nuclear weapons,
so I don't think Libya is now a threat.
North Korea (the non-Islamic threat) can be handled diplomatically
by buying them off. They are starving. That leaves Syria and Iran. Syria
is like a frightened puppy. Without the support of Iran they will join
the stronger side. So where does that leave us? Sooner, or later, we are
going to be forced to confront Iran, and it better be before they gain
nuclear capability.
In 1989 I served as a Command Director inside the Cheyenne Mountain
complex located in Colorado Springs, Colorado for almost three years. My
job there was to observe (through classified means) every missile shot
anywhere in the world and assess if it was a threat to the US or Canada.
If any shot was threatening to either nation I had only minutes to
advise the President, as he had only minutes to respond. I watched Iran
and Iraq shoot missiles at each other every day, and all day long, for
months. They killed hundreds of thousand of their people. Know why? They
were fighting for control of the Middle East and that enormous oil
supply.
At that time, they were preoccupied with their internal problems
and could care less about toppling the west. Oil prices were fairly
stable and we could not see an immediate threat. Well, the worst part of
what we have done as a nation in Iraq is to do away with the military
capability of one of those nations. Now, Iran has a clear field to
dominate the Middle East, since Iraq is no longer a threat to them. They
have turned their attention to the only other threat to their dominance,
they are convinced they will win, because the U.S. is so divided, and
the Democrats (who now control Congress and may control the Presidency
in
2008) have openly said we are pulling out.
Do you have any idea what will happen if the entire Middle East
turns their support to Iran, which they will obviously do if we pull
out? It is not the price of oil we will have to worry about. Oil WILL
NOT BE AVAILABLE to this country at any price. I personally would vote
for any presidential candidate who did what JFK did with the space
program---declare a goal to bring this country to total energy
independence in a decade.
Yes, it is about oil. The economy in this country will totally die
if that Middle East supply is cut off right now. It will not be a
recession. It will be a depression that will make 1929 look like the
"good-old-days". The bottom line here is simple. If Iran is forced to
fall in line, the fighting in Iraq will end over night, and the
nightmare will be over. One way or another, Iran must be forced to join
modern times and the global community. It may mean a real war---if so,
now is the time, before we face a nuclear Iran with the capacity to
destroy Israel and begin a new ice age. I urge you to read the book "END
GAME" by two of our best Middle East experts, true American patriots and
retired military generals, Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney. They are our
finest, and totally honest in their assessment of why victory in the
Middle East is so important, and how it can be won. Proceeds for the
book go directly to memorial fund for our fallen soldiers who served the
country during the war on terror. You can find that book by going to the
internet through Stand-up America at [url "http://www.ospreyradio.us/"]www.ospreyradio.us[/url]
<[url "http://www.ospreyradio.us/"]http://www.ospreyradio.us/[/url]> or [url "http://www.rightalk.com/"]www.rightalk.com[/url]
<[url "http://www.rightalk.com/"]http://www.rightalk.com/[/url]>
On the other hand, we have several very
retired generals
today, who evidently have not achieved their lofty goals, and insist on
ranting and raving about the war. They are wrong, and doing the country
great harm by giving a certain political party reason to use them as
experts to back their anti-war claims.
You may be one of those who believe nothing could ever be terrible
enough to support our going to war. If that is the case I should stop
here, as that level of thinking approaches mental disability in this day
and age. It is right up there with alien abductions and high altitude
seeding through government aircraft contrails. I helped produce those
contrails for almost 30 years, and I can assure you we were not seeding
the atmosphere. The human race is a war-like population, and if a
country is not willing to protect itself, it deserves the consequences.
Nuff-said!!!
Now, my last comments will get to the nerve. They will be on
politics. I am not a Republican and, George Bush has made enough
mistakes as President to insure my feelings about that for the rest of
my life. However, the Democratic Party has moved so far left, they have
made me support those farther to the right. I am a conservative who
totally supports the Constitution of this country. The only difference
between the United States and the South American, third world, dictator
infested and ever-changing South American governments, is our US
Constitution.
This Republic (note I did not say Democracy) is the longest
standing the world has ever known, but it is vulnerable. It would take
so little to change it through economic upheaval. There was a time when
politicians could disagree, but still work together. We are past that
time, and that is the initial step toward the downfall of our form of
government. I think that many view Bush-hating as payback time. The
Republicans hated the Clinton's and now the Democrats hate Bush. So,
both parties are putting their hate toward willingness to do anything
for political dominance to include lying and always taking the opposite
stand just for the sake of being opposed. JUST HOW GOOD IS THAT FOR OUR
COUNTRY?
In my lifetime, after serving in uniform for President's Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush I have a pretty good feel
for which party supported our military, and what military life was like
under each of their terms. And, let me assure you that times were best
under the Republicans. Service under Jimmy Carter was devastating for
all branches of the military. And Ronald Regan was truly a salvation.
You can choose to listen to enriched newscasters, and foolish people
like John Murtha (he is no war hero), Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael
Moore, Jane Fonda, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Ted
Kennedy, and on-and-on to include the true fools in Hollywood if you
like. If you do, your conclusions will be totally wrong.
The reason that I write, appear on radio talk shows, and do
everything I can to denounce those people is simple. THEY ARE PUTTING
THEIR THIRST FOR POLITICAL POWER AND QUEST FOR VICTORY IN 2008 ABOVE
WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY. I cannot abide that. Pelosi clearly
defied the Logan Act by going to Syria, which should have lead to
imprisonment of three years and a heavy fine. Jane Fonda did more to
prolong the Vietnam war longer than any other human being (as
acknowledged by Ho Chi Minh in his writing before he died). She truly
should have been indicted for treason, along with her radical husband,
Tom Hayden, and forced to pay the consequences.
This country has started to soften by not enforcing its laws, which
is another indication of a Republic about to fall. All Democrats, along
with the Hollywood elite, are sending us headlong into a total defeat in
the Middle East, which will finally give Iran total dominance in the
region. A lack of oil in the near future will be the final straw that
dooms this Republic. However, if we refuse to let this happen and really
get serious about an energy self-sufficiency program, this can be
avoided.
I am afraid, however, that we are going in the opposite direction. If we
elect Hillary Clinton and a Democrat controlled congress, and they carry
through with allowing Iran to take control of the Middle East, continue
to refuse development of nuclear energy, refuse to allow drilling for
new oil, and continue to do nothing but oppose everything Bush, it will
be over in terms of what we view as the good life in the USA.
Now, do I think that all who do not support the war are
un-American
-- of course not. They just do not understand the importance of total
victory in that region. Another failure of George Bush is his inability
to explain to the American people why we are there, and why we MUST win.
By the way, it is not a war. The war was won four years ago. It is
martial law that is under attack by Iranian and Syrian outside
influences, and there is a difference.
So, what do I believe? What is the bottom line? I will simply say
that the Democratic Party has fielded the foulest, power hungry,
anti-country, self absorbed group of individuals that I have observed in
my lifetime. Our educational system is partially to blame for allowing
the mass of America to be taken in by this group. George Bush has done
the best he can with the disabilities that he possesses. A President
must communicate with the people. And I would tell you that Desert Storm
spoiled the people. Bush Senior's 100-hour war convinced the people that
technology has progressed to the point that wars could be fought with no
casualties and won in very short periods of time. I remember feeling at
the time, that this was a tragedy for the US military. To win wars, you
must put boots on the ground. When you put boots on the ground, soldiers
are going to die. A President must make the war decision wisely, and
insure that the cause is right before using his last political option.
However, CONTROLLING IRAN AND DEMOCRATIZING THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE ONLY
CHOICE IF WE ARE HELL-BENT ON DEPENDING ON THEM FOR OUR FUTURE ENERGY
NEEDS.
Jimmy L. Cash, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.
Lakeside, Montana 59922
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If this author is really who he claims to be, this quite a sobering way
to put our current crisis in this country!!
AN INCREDIBLY SOBER ASSESSMENT OF OUR CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION
Please, take the time to read this !!
Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the Middle East
problems, this one is from the guy who had his finger on the nuclear
trigger for three years as head of our defense and response complex
buried under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs. He was the only
person who could initiate a nuclear attack after advising the sitting
president of a missile launch by our enemies and our need to respond. No
political or civilian type in the US had more knowledge about day to day
military actions around the world. Everyone should find quiet time to
read this. As far as I am concerned, it is exactly the direction we
should go and the consequences of not doing so are well thought out.
John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired) Middle East
Imperative
BY: JIM CASH, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.
I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against
radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put this
conflict in proper perspective.
Understand, the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger
than just Iraq. What happens in the next year will affect this country
and how our kids and grandkids live throughout their lifetime, and
beyond. Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the seventh
century. They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the point
of taking hundreds of years to recover. But they can never be totally
defeated. Their birth rates are so far beyond civilized world rates that
in time they recover and attempt to dominate again.
There are eight terror-sponsoring countries that make up the grand
threat to the West. Two , Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, just need firm
pressure from the West to make major reforms. They need to decide who
they are really going to support and commit to that support. That answer
is simple. They both will support who they think will hang in there
until the end, and win. We are not sending very good signals in that
direction right now, thanks to the Democrats.
The other six, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and
Libya will require regime change or a major policy shift. Now, let's
look more closely. Afghanistan and Iraq have both had regime changes,
but are being fueled by outsiders from Syria and Iran. We have scared
Gaddafi's pants off, and he has given up his quest for nuclear weapons,
so I don't think Libya is now a threat.
North Korea (the non-Islamic threat) can be handled diplomatically
by buying them off. They are starving. That leaves Syria and Iran. Syria
is like a frightened puppy. Without the support of Iran they will join
the stronger side. So where does that leave us? Sooner, or later, we are
going to be forced to confront Iran, and it better be before they gain
nuclear capability.
In 1989 I served as a Command Director inside the Cheyenne Mountain
complex located in Colorado Springs, Colorado for almost three years. My
job there was to observe (through classified means) every missile shot
anywhere in the world and assess if it was a threat to the US or Canada.
If any shot was threatening to either nation I had only minutes to
advise the President, as he had only minutes to respond. I watched Iran
and Iraq shoot missiles at each other every day, and all day long, for
months. They killed hundreds of thousand of their people. Know why? They
were fighting for control of the Middle East and that enormous oil
supply.
At that time, they were preoccupied with their internal problems
and could care less about toppling the west. Oil prices were fairly
stable and we could not see an immediate threat. Well, the worst part of
what we have done as a nation in Iraq is to do away with the military
capability of one of those nations. Now, Iran has a clear field to
dominate the Middle East, since Iraq is no longer a threat to them. They
have turned their attention to the only other threat to their dominance,
they are convinced they will win, because the U.S. is so divided, and
the Democrats (who now control Congress and may control the Presidency
in
2008) have openly said we are pulling out.
Do you have any idea what will happen if the entire Middle East
turns their support to Iran, which they will obviously do if we pull
out? It is not the price of oil we will have to worry about. Oil WILL
NOT BE AVAILABLE to this country at any price. I personally would vote
for any presidential candidate who did what JFK did with the space
program---declare a goal to bring this country to total energy
independence in a decade.
Yes, it is about oil. The economy in this country will totally die
if that Middle East supply is cut off right now. It will not be a
recession. It will be a depression that will make 1929 look like the
"good-old-days". The bottom line here is simple. If Iran is forced to
fall in line, the fighting in Iraq will end over night, and the
nightmare will be over. One way or another, Iran must be forced to join
modern times and the global community. It may mean a real war---if so,
now is the time, before we face a nuclear Iran with the capacity to
destroy Israel and begin a new ice age. I urge you to read the book "END
GAME" by two of our best Middle East experts, true American patriots and
retired military generals, Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney. They are our
finest, and totally honest in their assessment of why victory in the
Middle East is so important, and how it can be won. Proceeds for the
book go directly to memorial fund for our fallen soldiers who served the
country during the war on terror. You can find that book by going to the
internet through Stand-up America at [url "http://www.ospreyradio.us/"]www.ospreyradio.us[/url]
<[url "http://www.ospreyradio.us/"]http://www.ospreyradio.us/[/url]> or [url "http://www.rightalk.com/"]www.rightalk.com[/url]
<[url "http://www.rightalk.com/"]http://www.rightalk.com/[/url]>
On the other hand, we have several very
retired generalstoday, who evidently have not achieved their lofty goals, and insist on
ranting and raving about the war. They are wrong, and doing the country
great harm by giving a certain political party reason to use them as
experts to back their anti-war claims.
You may be one of those who believe nothing could ever be terrible
enough to support our going to war. If that is the case I should stop
here, as that level of thinking approaches mental disability in this day
and age. It is right up there with alien abductions and high altitude
seeding through government aircraft contrails. I helped produce those
contrails for almost 30 years, and I can assure you we were not seeding
the atmosphere. The human race is a war-like population, and if a
country is not willing to protect itself, it deserves the consequences.
Nuff-said!!!
Now, my last comments will get to the nerve. They will be on
politics. I am not a Republican and, George Bush has made enough
mistakes as President to insure my feelings about that for the rest of
my life. However, the Democratic Party has moved so far left, they have
made me support those farther to the right. I am a conservative who
totally supports the Constitution of this country. The only difference
between the United States and the South American, third world, dictator
infested and ever-changing South American governments, is our US
Constitution.
This Republic (note I did not say Democracy) is the longest
standing the world has ever known, but it is vulnerable. It would take
so little to change it through economic upheaval. There was a time when
politicians could disagree, but still work together. We are past that
time, and that is the initial step toward the downfall of our form of
government. I think that many view Bush-hating as payback time. The
Republicans hated the Clinton's and now the Democrats hate Bush. So,
both parties are putting their hate toward willingness to do anything
for political dominance to include lying and always taking the opposite
stand just for the sake of being opposed. JUST HOW GOOD IS THAT FOR OUR
COUNTRY?
In my lifetime, after serving in uniform for President's Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush I have a pretty good feel
for which party supported our military, and what military life was like
under each of their terms. And, let me assure you that times were best
under the Republicans. Service under Jimmy Carter was devastating for
all branches of the military. And Ronald Regan was truly a salvation.
You can choose to listen to enriched newscasters, and foolish people
like John Murtha (he is no war hero), Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael
Moore, Jane Fonda, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Ted
Kennedy, and on-and-on to include the true fools in Hollywood if you
like. If you do, your conclusions will be totally wrong.
The reason that I write, appear on radio talk shows, and do
everything I can to denounce those people is simple. THEY ARE PUTTING
THEIR THIRST FOR POLITICAL POWER AND QUEST FOR VICTORY IN 2008 ABOVE
WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY. I cannot abide that. Pelosi clearly
defied the Logan Act by going to Syria, which should have lead to
imprisonment of three years and a heavy fine. Jane Fonda did more to
prolong the Vietnam war longer than any other human being (as
acknowledged by Ho Chi Minh in his writing before he died). She truly
should have been indicted for treason, along with her radical husband,
Tom Hayden, and forced to pay the consequences.
This country has started to soften by not enforcing its laws, which
is another indication of a Republic about to fall. All Democrats, along
with the Hollywood elite, are sending us headlong into a total defeat in
the Middle East, which will finally give Iran total dominance in the
region. A lack of oil in the near future will be the final straw that
dooms this Republic. However, if we refuse to let this happen and really
get serious about an energy self-sufficiency program, this can be
avoided.
I am afraid, however, that we are going in the opposite direction. If we
elect Hillary Clinton and a Democrat controlled congress, and they carry
through with allowing Iran to take control of the Middle East, continue
to refuse development of nuclear energy, refuse to allow drilling for
new oil, and continue to do nothing but oppose everything Bush, it will
be over in terms of what we view as the good life in the USA.
Now, do I think that all who do not support the war are
un-American
-- of course not. They just do not understand the importance of total
victory in that region. Another failure of George Bush is his inability
to explain to the American people why we are there, and why we MUST win.
By the way, it is not a war. The war was won four years ago. It is
martial law that is under attack by Iranian and Syrian outside
influences, and there is a difference.
So, what do I believe? What is the bottom line? I will simply say
that the Democratic Party has fielded the foulest, power hungry,
anti-country, self absorbed group of individuals that I have observed in
my lifetime. Our educational system is partially to blame for allowing
the mass of America to be taken in by this group. George Bush has done
the best he can with the disabilities that he possesses. A President
must communicate with the people. And I would tell you that Desert Storm
spoiled the people. Bush Senior's 100-hour war convinced the people that
technology has progressed to the point that wars could be fought with no
casualties and won in very short periods of time. I remember feeling at
the time, that this was a tragedy for the US military. To win wars, you
must put boots on the ground. When you put boots on the ground, soldiers
are going to die. A President must make the war decision wisely, and
insure that the cause is right before using his last political option.
However, CONTROLLING IRAN AND DEMOCRATIZING THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE ONLY
CHOICE IF WE ARE HELL-BENT ON DEPENDING ON THEM FOR OUR FUTURE ENERGY
NEEDS.
Jimmy L. Cash, Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret.
Lakeside, Montana 59922
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