Choked For Cash!

I've been pondering the policies we use to confront terrorism, and our foreign affairs. I think we can all agree they are basically not effective, we've tried might, and we tried understanding to no avail. We are put into a position of playing defense with no concrete idea of where or what we will confront next. President Bush seems to have been the most effective, keeping terrorists on their heels and preventing any additional attacks on our soil. President Obama has tried to reason and be sympathetic to their cause but it has brought nothing but increased domestic activity from the jihadists. It may well be they have just evolved and these assaults were inevitable, or the current policy could be seen as a sign of weakness, there is no way of being sure.

Here's the truth, we don't understand our enemy. It doesn't matter if it's Hamas, Hizb'allah, Taliban, or al Qaeda, they think the same. Their warriors consider themselves already dead, your not going to reason with that mission statement. We can close whatever prisons we wish or make policy changes till we're blue in the face, they don't care. Their mission is to erase us and anyone else who gets in their way, bar none. They hate Israel and America's values. They won't rest until their enemy is exterminated, and nothing we say, do, close, or policy we alter will change that. They are not going to tell anyone we stopped water boarding prisoners, closed any prison, or where we held trials any of the enemy combatants, it's irrelevant to them. So what do we do to end this threat?

Well, what keeps them in business? Nothing works in this world without funding. The answer to this lies in who or what supplies them the funds to move forward. Truth be told without money they are not effective, they can't travel, buy supplies, or train. They would be reduced to throwing rocks and spitting at the infidels (that'd be us)! Their chaos is based on fear, and their fear needs funds. So if you choke off the funds, you weed out the threat from your garden. Pull the roots!

Two things fund terrorism, oil and drugs. First we need to spray a herbicide over every poppy field in Afghanistan, and keep doing it until it's eradicated. Why are we bartering with Afghans over reduction of the crop of drugs? Eliminate it, period! That will seriously dent the income of jihad. The second most prominent financier of this movement comes from Iran and it's oil. For most of the 1990's, Iran's support for terrorism and it's relentless quest for an atomic bomb were written off as a soon to be forgotten oddity of a still evolving nation, and we all know the results of this ignorance. Iran has patiently accumulated the tools of regional influence and basks in the power vacuum brought on by our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. America and Europe have squandered a decade of opportunity to terminate this threat by neutering Iran's agenda. Defund this movement and it will evaporate.

There are more sponsors in the Middle East, but those are the two major ones. Follow the money, and choke off it at the source, end of problem. The alternative is a nuclear Iran, you think we have threats now? You not seen anything yet. Diplomacy won't work with a man who has death in his eyes, but removing his means to be effective will. You can't hitchhike to America.

God Bless!
Capt. Bill