Crushing Insurgencies Part III

Crushing Insurgencies: Part III

Friday, December 8, 2006

The new Iraqi democracy that has emerged since Saddam Hussein was swept out of power by the United States and coalition forces has yet to solidify its lawful rule over the country. Many enemies in the region in the form of terrorist organizations, insurgent groups and state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and Syria are putting all of their energies into ensuring Iraq becomes a failed state. Iran, Syria and the terrorist organizations that those two countries support want a failed state like Lebanon in Iraq, a state that finds itself in endless conflict and instability, and a state where freedom will not be allowed to take hold.

In the west, enemies of America and freedom, and even the enemies of moderate politicians such as President Bush and his administration, work day and night to help Iran and Syrian do unto Iraq as those countries have done unto Lebanon. Many western nation-states in the United Nations want a rebirth of the modified Marxist socialist system, a system that ignores spending for national defense and security and replaces the survival construct with an appeasement construct. In World War II, Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers recognized the timid properties of states that were unwilling to defend themselves from outside aggression and celebrated those states that preemptively sought to critique other states that sought defense from fascism.

We face similar circumstances in 2006.

It must stop now.

The United States and Great Britain can win the war in Iraq. The media, leftist politicians, European socialists that court elected officials in the United States and states that want to see the United States fail in Iraq and Afghanistan say that the war cannot be won. They are wrong. They want us to believe in failure, as some states and groups and individuals wanted us to fail in World War II.

The United States and Great Britain stand at the threshold of history, a point in history where a Persian nuclear weapons program is just moments away. Protecting that program are European socialist states that have margined their economies on the gross negligence of needing a stable flow of oil from Iran regardless of who is in charge in that country, and regardless of any moral evil that regime aspires. President Ahmadinejad of Iran almost daily claims to the media that the State of Israel, the United States and Great Britain as well as the west in total, shall be destroyed and wiped away from the face of the Earth. European addiction to Iranian oil nearly matches that of the American addiction to Venezuelan oil. The west is now being held hostage by perverse regimes that seek our destruction—every dollar spent on the oil exported from those regimes adds to the coffers of those states and their plans they have weighed against us. The addiction to oil creates hostility between the United States and supposed allied states. The socialist state system cannot function without oil and it is the system that benignly welcomes the blackmailing of it by enemies of western civilization.

The American and British security decision in regards to Iraq must first recognize that all is not well within the west, and the security of the children and grandchildren of America and Britain are being subverted by a handful of noisy socialist appeasement states and their loyalists in the media, special interest organizations and the leftist international party apparatus.

Wars are not popular. Human beings want peace. Fundamentalist Islam will not give the west the peace it so desperately desires. Fundamentalist Islam is marching now, and the stage has been set for the showdown between the west and an Islamic Identity that is yet another form of fascism that the west must responsibly counter.

The idea has once again been placed at our feet. To ignore it is to surrender to it. To exit Iraq without victory is to surrender. Iran and Syria do not deserve to be handed Lebanon and Iraq and the citizens of humanity that reside in Lebanon and Iraq that want peace and freedom do not deserve to become clients of Syria and Iran. It is that simple. The United States and Great Britain have the resources and the will to face and overcome any challenge posed by Syria and Iran.

To be victorious in Iraq will require some tough decisions, but the politician that makes them will seat their legacy for centuries as the just defender of western civilization. This war against fundamentalist Islam is more important than any other matter—any matter—that the west is currently engaged.

Confronting fundamentalist Islam to secure victory in Iraq, and securing the peace for future generations in western civilization will require a steady hand and courageous spirit. The insurgency in Iraq can be defeated if the right strategy is used to achieve it.

The strategy to defeat the insurgency in Iraq and to strengthen western states against fundamentalist Islam in future conflicts can be achieved through the following mosaic implemented by the United States and Great Britain:

Know the enemy: Fundamentalist Islamic forces believe that they are fighting for the afterlife, not to benefit humanity on Earth or to contribute to human civilization. Fundamentalist Islam then regularly commits war crimes such as placing non-combatants in their areas of operations, using improvised explosive devices regardless if there are children, the elderly or women nearby, conducting assassinations after torturing captured or kidnapped individuals and groups and attacking critical infrastructure to place large numbers of civilians in grave danger.

The short and long-term effects of fundamentalist Islam upon humanity is criminal because the ideology is totalitarian with a claimed omnipotent command structure instead of a human command structure. Fundamentalist Islam is at the apex of the definition of combatant since the ideology can disrupt and even destroy functional societies and replace them with desired failed states as their ideology dictates.

Rules of engagement to combat fundamentalist Islam should be flexible.

Punish Iran and Syria: Punish, not reward, Syria and Iran for their attempts to seize Lebanon and Iraq. This can be achieved by closing the borders to Syria and Iran in Iraq and then creating a dual-benefactor relationship with the democratically elected government of Baghdad and Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Implement a full program of divestiture against Syria and Iran, blocking all trade and investment with those two countries. Consider flying 50 to 100 strategic aircraft such as B-52 bombers over Damascus and Teheran in a show of force. A naval blockade of Iranian ports will cripple their gasoline imports, while precision air-strikes against Syrian bridges connecting Syria to Lebanon will send the message that the west will not allow Syria to retake Lebanon.

By creating a dual-benefactor relationship with Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Iraq can receive its necessary imports and also will be able to export its oil resources without impediment. Jordan and Saudi Arabia then will be forced to take a more active role in the fates of the Iraqi people and the regional security situation and those states will also benefit by becoming the benefactors of Iraq. Syria and Iran, on the other hand, will become increasingly isolated.

Restore the respect and fear of US military power. The United States secured the peace for generations because hostile nation-states knew that if they tangled with the US military that the costs of doing so would be much greater than any realized gains. US rules of engagement in Iraq have hamstrung our soldiers to the point that they are almost criminalized in any engagement of the enemy that they face on a daily basis. The rules of engagement for US forces needs to be relaxed. If hostile forces fire upon US forces at any level, the United States must respond with overwhelming force. If that were done, insurgent commanders in Iraq would not be telling the leftist media that they wished US forces could stay in Iraq because they were not done yet with spilling more of our soldier’s “blood”. Securing the peace is derived from a combination of diplomatic and military applications of force.

In areas with large insurgent force concentrations, attempts should be made to remove as many non-combatants from the area and relocate them to other areas while planning on permanent relocation. This is how insurgencies are defeated. Then US military power should be applied to the fullest extent possible on all combatant target areas until there is an absolute cessation of hostilities. Desert warfare environments provide US forces with maximum technological and tactical advantage. Let the soldiers perform that way and keep the leftist media out of those areas of operations. Allowing non-elected militias to form that follow the orders of nation-states such as Iran and not the democratically elected government of Iraq is inviting the hostile state influence into Iraq. Those Iranian-backed militias are the pure definition of combatants. Any entity that attempts to command such forces, such as the 40,000 member Sadr Militia, should be captured or liquidated, and the militias themselves engaged and destroyed.

Secure the borders. Border security in Iraq should become a priority along the Iranian and Syrian border. Build defenses in depth and interdict any penetrations into Iraq. Make it very difficult for hostile forces to enjoin the war inside Iraq. Once hostile forces enter Iraq and reach Iraqi suburban areas, they add to the combat power of the enemies of the Iraqi government. Should hostile forces journey to Iraq to fight the United States, Great Britain and coalition forces, make it tough on them. The coalition is giving those hostile forces a free pass to enter Iraq and wage war against us. Weapons exported to Iraq from Iran and Syria to be used by insurgent forces against the United States and coalition forces should be documented and publicized.

Force UN involvement. It is criminal that European socialist nation-states have sat back and allowed the United States and Great Britain to engage fundamentalist Islam alone. Also, many of these socialist states have the audacity to support the fundamentalist Islamic cause through the media and other venues. Just because these states have margined their economic wellbeing on Middle Eastern oil and have willingly surrendered to theocratic totalitarianism does not mean that the United States and Great Britain should.

To fix this situation, the new Iraqi democratic government should begin sweeping conscription of Iraqi military-aged men and instead of identifying those new Iraqi soldiers as part of an Iraqi force, those soldiers should be given United Nations peacekeeping uniforms and blue berets. Further, the Iraqi forces should be isolated at military barracks and not allowed to leave military installations after training, just as US military personnel are not allowed to leave for long periods of time that will cause those personnel to miss accountability formations three or more times per day. By having those forces equipped under a United Nations designation will force UN involvement in Iraq, instead of the UN avoiding its responsibilities.

Make personnel changes in the UN. Replace Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the United Nations. Recently Kofi Annan claimed that Iraq would have been better off with a “dictator” instead of liberation by the United States and Great Britain. In this world war that fundamentalist Islam wages against the west, the last thing that democracies need is a UN Secretary General surrendering western civilization to totalitarianism.

Bomb Iran. The government of Iran has already told the international community what the Persian nation-state has planned to do once it acquires nuclear weapons. Iran has stated clearly that the United States, the State of Israel and the west for that matter will be “erased” from history when Iran accomplishes a nuclear build. No competent western government can ever allow the Persians to acquire nuclear weapons. All known Iranian concentrations of nuclear development should be destroyed by US and coalition air strikes. European socialist states will resist that to the end because of their oil trade with Iran, but those countries will just have to make adjustments and face reality. Then, if other OPEC states try to go to the aid of Iran, which is doubtful considering Saudi Arabia is a mortal enemy of the Persians, simply explain to those states that if they lose discipline then their fate will be the fate of Iraq. No Arab and non-Arab country in the Middle East wants to wind up like Iraq. Tell them to take a good look at Iraq, because fundamentalist Islam is going to be dealt with and those that resist will be taken down to the lowest common denominator.

Assign terrorist identifiers. Treat all future terrorist attacks as those sponsored by a nation-state and not from an individual or group. State-sponsors of terrorism in Islamic nation-states have gotten a free pass for this behavior for too long. These state-sponsors of terrorism have basically redefined the international debate on terrorism as that which is being done by “disgruntled” groups or individuals, when the truth has always been that there is a strong nation-state sponsorship of terrorism. It should be made clear to states that sponsor terrorism that the costs of sponsoring terrorism vastly outweigh any possible gains.

Outlaw non-government militant groups. Terrorist organizations and proxy militias supported by hostile states claim their primary purpose for being is for social relief and yet those same groups stockpile missiles, bombs and other military ordnance to be used against sovereign states in the international community. Those groups should be outlawed and criminalized and their members hunted down and destroyed using all military options at the west’s disposal. No non-elected group should have any militant influence against a sovereign state. Western nation-states do not tolerate that behavior, but the west is led to believe that western states should allow full functionality of such non-elected groups in the Middle East.

Be very clear on terms. Give the enemies of the west terms and enforce them. The liquidation of Iranian nuclear research capability should be followed up with mandatory UN inspections of the entire country of Iran to locate any remaining nuclear facilities so that those facilities can be dismantled and destroyed. Make the terms very clear or fundamentalist Islam will dictate terms to the west. Totalitarian mechanisms only respect direct applications of force.

Consider sanctions. For far too long, western media apparatuses have sided with fundamentalist Islam in its war against the west. Free states should consider creating a sanctions policy against any media element that propagates to benefit the morale of those hostile forces that wage war against the west. Freedom of the press is not the freedom to help an enemy force conquer your country and place all of your citizens in very grave danger.

Increase oil production. Western nation-states should assist OPEC countries in the production of oil to make up for oil flows that are disrupted due to military strikes against strategic targets. Just because Europe needs Iran’s oil for their vast socialist economies does not mean that Iran should have impunity while building a nuclear weapons program that Iran will eventually use against the west. Snapping European socialist states out of their socialist economies will also positively benefit freedom’s march across the world.

Replace governments. All hostile foreign governments that are supporting fundamentalist Islam to attack the west should be replaced with models of governance that do not attack the west. The “endless war” scenario where fundamentalist Islam operates with impunity has to stop. It is time to achieve global compliance.

Consider the nuclear option. The United States has the responsibility as the world’s only superpower to restore the global order. Since the fall of communism, the global order has been dangerously disrupted. The United States could restore the global order through the deployment of a nuclear strike against certain hostile nation-states that have grossly underestimated our will to persevere. The United States restored the global order at the end of World War II when it dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Those are the tough options the west needs to embrace to win in Iraq and Afghanistan. The question then rests with the politician—does the politician concern themselves with “popularity” or longevity of the nation-state? Everyone wants to be popular, well-liked and respected by all diverse groups of humans everywhere. However, in war, the desire to be respected and popular can only occur after the war is over.

To not act is to gamble with the future of western civilization and that truth is greater than any individual nation-state and the politicians that manage them.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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