Ahmadinejadized

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, and his closest advisors within the Iranian Revolutionary Council have a lot to celebrate.

Iranian military advisors and intelligence personnel are claiming victory over American and coalition forces in Iraq using Iranian combat tactics, military ordnance and other logistical support. The Iraqi insurgent plan to defeat the United States in war is really a very simple plan. This plan calls for four specific objectives:

Avoid confronting US military units on the ground directly.

Harass and kill US military personnel and supply convoy operations using ambushes, improvised explosives devices, and other guerilla methods.

Try to kill at least ten US soldiers per day to break the will of the American people to fight the war in Iraq.

Purge Iraq of all non-Shai (Shiite) intellectuals, members of government and industry through kidnapping, executions and assassinations.

As this plan has been unfolding against the United States in Iraq and the Iraqi people, President Ahmadinejad (code name Armageddon in Islamic circles) has been very busy trying to remove the United States from the global stage. US engagement in the Middle East and US diplomatic activities that influence Iran are only feasible if the United States can project military power in the region.

The war in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the centerpiece of criticism toward the United States by the European Union and Arab and non-Arab nation-states alike. European nation-states do not want to get involved in this war because the delicate balance of European socialist economies would be disrupted and leftist politicians would no longer be able to maintain their stranglehold on power in the European Union by distributing national wealth in exchange for votes from their socialist constituent voting blocks. Just wars are made unpopular before the facts leading up to those wars can be examined. The European mindset is surrender, as they tried to surrender to the Soviet block nation-state system and communism for most of the 20^th Century. European intellectuals also believe that any help they give to the United States benefits the State of Israel.

Arab and non-Arab nation-states have different reasons to want to stay out of the war against fundamentalist Islam. As fundamentalist Islam is increasingly moving towards the adaptation of the theocratic Trotskyism model of warmongering and expansion, Arab and non-Arab nation-states in the Middle East have a lot to be fearful of if the United States is forced out of Iraq. By the tens of thousands, radical Islamic fundamentalists trained on the battlefields of Iraq would collapse upon neighboring Arab and non-Arab nation-states and would begin operating against the monarchial governments of those states. In a very brief period of time there would be kidnappings, terrorist acts including suicide-bombings and shootings, assassinations, beheadings and calls for those states to surrender to radical Islam. Should the United States leave Iraq, neighboring states in the region could possibly begin to disintegrate.

The international media has attempted to define this war as another American “Vietnam”. This war against terrorism is not Vietnam. The Vietnamese are Stalinists, a form of revolutionary communism that seeks to internalize its drive to Utopia. The Vietnamese were not planning to build armies to march outside their borders and invade neighboring countries. The North Vietnamese wanted Americans out of Vietnam, as Iran and Syria want America out of Iraq, the difference being that once America does leave Iraq under any conditions, victory or defeat, Iraq will not internalize as Vietnam did. Iraq will shift rapidly to the theocratic Trotskyism model that was the foundation of the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and Iranian efforts to equip and mobilize Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the Middle East since that time.

The European Union’s delusion in its comparison of radical Islam to Vietnam is the highest degree of wishful thinking seen since the 1930s. European Union politicians are taking wishful thinking to levels even greater than that of Chamberlain.

The fundamentalist Islamic objective of destroying or at least seriously degrading US military power was derived from lessons-learned during the war with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. By avoiding Soviet troop and armor concentrations directly and attacking those forces asymmetrically, the Jihadists were able to break the will and spirit of the Soviet people and force their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US provided military assistance to the Afghani Mujahadeen back in those days because the United States wanted communism to be contained, but the roots of this new global conflict against radical Islam and transnational terrorist organizations began long before the Afghanistan invasion by the Soviet Union on Christmas day in 1979.

Luring the Soviet Union into Afghanistan was a remarkably clever idea. Islamic tribes had been dealt with by heavy hands from communists in Moscow for decades. Joseph Stalin, for example, ordered the transferring of almost every Islamic person from Chechnya to Siberia in an effort to annihilate the Chechen people. In nation-states such as Uzbekistan that were the primary venues of Soviet uranium mining and processing for its vast nuclear arsenal, the worship of Islam was forbidden by the Soviet state. Communism then created generations of rage in Islamic peoples towards it, and Islam found no difficulty whatsoever recruiting soldiers to fight the communists when war broke out in Afghanistan. Fundamentalist Islam then is yet another proven byproduct of the perversion of communism in the 20^th Century that will long haunt the world into the 21^st Century and the global community has been drawn into the fight whether it wants to acknowledge it or not.

The Mujahadeen model of warfare that is being conducted against the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan is the same model that was used against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The Mujahadeen model of warfare has been tweaked somewhat as it uses new and sophisticated military ordnance and tactics derived from Iran, but fundamentally it is the same. This model seeks to degrade the modern army that it engages over time, create as many wounded and killed in action casualties as it can, and then wait for the peoples of the nation-state that invaded to rise up against the government that created the intervention policy and force a retreat. This is the war-fighting model of fundamentalist Islam that appeared in the late 20^th Century and with victory over the Soviets it will be a war-fighting model deployed against the west for all of the 21^st Century.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran simply cannot contain himself as these events unfold. The remaking of the Persian Empire has long been a goal of the Iranian Revolutionary Council since 1979. While President Ahmadinejad does not yet see himself as the next Xerxes of Persian history, he is intent on sending the United States out of the Middle East in defeat. A Xerxes personality construct in Ahmadinejad may evolve if Iran becomes the hegemon of the Middle East as dependent upon the US will to remain in Iraq and its neighboring states to shore up security or US withdrawal from the region.

President Ahmadinejad is convinced that the recent US congressional elections are a pulse-checking of the American people and an outcome that the United States should withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iranian president believes that he is immune from any intervention by the United States in regards to Iranian nuclear research and development. President Ahmadinejad is convinced and the Iranian leadership cell overall is convinced that if President Bush makes any attempt to intervene in Iran to try and stop the development of Persian nuclear weapons capability, that the US congress will impeach President Bush and this would facilitate Iranian nuclear plans.

The Persians have another back-up plan too. They know that the United States is unpredictable when it comes to our will to protect and defend our freedom and the freedom of other nation-states in which we form our alliances. President Ahmadinejad is exploring ways to convert the oil markets from US dollars and into Euros. Ahmadinejad wants to install an Iranian Oil Bourse to trample the currency markets. This would make it much more difficult for the United States to finance and conduct protracted warfare to benefit US interests around the world.

One must also consider whether or not European inactivity against Islamic fundamentalism is a new form of anti-Semitism. Prior to US involvement in Iraq and prior to the attacks upon the United States by terrorist organizations on September 11, 2001, the bulk of European foreign aid went to Palestinian causes. Since US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and Israeli military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, European efforts to install a Palestinian state and force compliance from the State of Israel have collapsed. The unwillingness of European states to become involved in the War on Terrorism effort led by the United States may then be rooted in anti-Semitism.

The United States can expect Iran to seize on that motive as it tries to make the Euro the currency of choice for international oil transactions. The reason this must occur is that it is the key to destroying the State of Israel and removing the United States from the global stage.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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