[March 2, 2017] Army Vet reflects today on the IRAQI ARMY that has found the NERVE to take on the ISLAMIC STATE terror group.
The pursuit of a military victory in Mosul, Iraq has meaning for the free world that it neither appreciates nor wants to understand … perhaps cannot understand, because of its social contradictions. Such is the life in a Politically Correct world where everything is a morally equivalent and the trappings of the ‘good life’ is expressed in the possessions we either own or reject; the cars and houses, the psychic altering drugs, and love of political power. I love the Iraqi military machine for its simplicity and its defective political apparatus because they actually have the guts to attack and destroy the undeniable Islamic cancer that is infecting people worldwide.
Islamic terrorism ideology and the radicalization of hundreds of thousands of young men and women is a threat the world hasn’t faced since Joseph Stalin (post-WWII), Adolf Hitler, and the Japanese Empire … exaggeration? Not likely. The Islamic State is under appreciated for the destruction of fundamental Western values it can achieve, easily deliver, to both the free Western World and to the struggling Third World; both of which welcomes it with open arms and pushes it poor peoples to adopt. If this weren’t such a poignant point, I would be shocked but not so much after hearing our political and military class pontificate glowingly over Islam and showing their gross ignorance of this socialist-like ideology.
I have to admire the Islamic State military engine and their religious leaders’ strength of character, dedication to their cause, and disciplined messaging. Their successes both on the battlefield, destroying of ancient cultural artifacts, and on-going recruiting have been remarkable despite their recent setbacks. Mosul is the epicenter of this effort and their troops have dug in for the long battle ahead. Our news media tells us that their “leaders have run away” from the ensuing fight.1 Not so! They understand that leadership means being able to survive and preserve their capability; predictably, that is exactly what they’re doing and by leaving a dedicated (we call fanatic) garrison behind is intended to slay the infidels.
Modern warfare techniques like precision bombing, combined arms centric military forces, and high tech aircraft must be used in large quantity to dig out a small number of dedicated Islamic State soldiers who fight with RPGs and rifles. These men are warriors in the truest sense of the word. They fight modern soldiers who lack the dedication and will to die for their cause without the slightest thought to giving up everything. Those Iraqi forces arrayed against the Islamic warrior know this and needs the help of allies to provide air and logistical support, without which they could not conduct this operation.
Iraqi forces (made up of police, military soldiers, and Special Forces) however are advancing slowly but surely against that warrior. The Iraqi forces involved in this fight know that if captured they will be tortured and killed. It’s a Hobbesian battle where the fighting will be nasty, brutish, but not short. It will not be a long time before the Iraqi soldier conquers the warrior out of sheer numbers but also out of the guts they have learned directly from that warrior and U.S. soldiers.
Army Vet wishes the Iraqi soldier good luck and personal praise for their courage and honor.
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