Will the West Defend Itself?

isisiThe Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida’s anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious duty. With regard to nonbelievers, the Quran commands, “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out.” The Quran contains many other verses that call for Muslim violence against nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.

Contrast the words of the Quran with the statements of limp-wristed Western leaders such as this by President Barack Obama: “We have reaffirmed that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace.” While reacting to ISIL’s slaughter of British citizen David Haines, Prime Minister David Cameron said, “Islam is a religion of peace.” Then there was the U.S. secretary of state’s explanation: “The real face of Islam is a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings.” But John Kerry and other Western politicians calling Islam a religion of peace doesn’t make it so.

A debate about whether Islam is a religion of peace or not is entirely irrelevant to the threat to the West posed by ISIL, al-Qaida and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups. I would like to gather a news conference with our Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno; Marines’ commandant, Gen. Joseph Dunford; chief of naval operations, Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert; and Gen. Mark A. Welsh, the U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff. This would be my question to them: The best intelligence puts ISIL’s size at 35,000 to 40,000 people. Do you officers think that the combined efforts of our military forces could defeat and lay waste to ISIL? Before they had a chance to answer, I’d add: Do you think the combined military forces of NATO and the U.S. could defeat and eliminate ISIL. Depending on the answers given, I’d then ask whether these forces could also eliminate Iran’s capability of making nuclear weapons.

My question to my fellow Americans is: What do you think their answers would be? No beating around the bush: Does the U.S. have the power to defeat the ISIL/al-Qaida threat and stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions — yes or no?

If our military tells us that we do have the capacity to defeat the terror threat, then the reason that we don’t reflects a lack of willingness. It’s that same lack of willingness that led to the deaths of 60 million people during World War II. In 1936, France alone could have stopped Adolf Hitler, but France and its allies knowingly allowed Hitler to rearm, in violation of treaties. When Europeans finally woke up to Hitler’s agenda, it was too late. Their nations were conquered. One of the most horrible acts of Nazi Germany was the Holocaust, which cost an estimated 11 million lives. Those innocents lost their lives because of the unwillingness of Europeans to protect themselves against tyranny.

Westerners getting the backbone to defend ourselves from terrorists may have to await a deadly attack on our homeland. You say, “What do you mean, Williams?” America’s liberals have given terrorists an open invitation to penetrate our country through our unprotected southern border. Terrorists can easily come in with dirty bombs to make one of our major cities uninhabitable through radiation. They could just as easily plant chemical or biological weapons in our cities. If they did any of these acts — leading to the deaths of millions of Americans — I wonder whether our liberal Democratic politicians would be able to respond or they would continue to mouth that “Islam teaches peace” and “Islam is a religion of peace.”

Unfortunately for our nation’s future and that of the world, we see giving handouts as the most important function of government rather than its most basic function: defending us from barbarians.

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  • Tradecraft46

    The West will simply not do what is necessary to win, or at least kill all who want to die for the cause. They know it.

    • mollysdad

      That, I suspect, is because the West doesn’t want to face up to the very real possibility that the use of nuclear weapons might be necessary to defeat this enemy.

      • Thomas J. Hennigan

        I don’t see how nuclear weapons are any use in this kind of war, as they would also kill those whom they are supposed to be defending.

        • mollysdad

          They’re supposed to be defending us. One strike on Fallujah should encouager les autres to change their religion.

  • pennant8

    Mr. Williams poses the question to top military leaders if they could defeat ISIS using a top estimated strength of 40,000. 40,000 seems like a formidable number, but compared to the number of Muslims who adhere to Salafist and Wahhabi doctrines, which is the recruiting pool for al Qaeda and ISIS, 40,000 is a barely countable number.

    Due to the success of Muslim Brotherhood intellectual sabotage units such as CAIR, the the Joint Chiefs are not permitted to examine the role that Salafists and Wahhabists play in this struggle. They are not even permitted to use those words, so they have to dream up more and more ridiculous euphemisms like “nihilists.”

  • SoCalMike

    One short article from Dr. Williams compensates for thousands of worthless articles by hundreds of corrupt and worthless members of the US press corps and media over the course of decades.
    If you see “policy wonks” Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Chris Matthews or any of these worthless conmen and parasites masquerading as a source of knowledge, just spit on them.

  • ObamaYoMoma

    ISIS isn’t the culprit. It’s just a symptom. Mainstream orthodox Islam, which is the only kind of Islam in real life, is the problem. ISIS will simply do what “AQ in Iraq” did during the Iraqi Surge and that is melt back into the woodwork like roaches until the infidels believe they have won and have finally exited the region again. Then they will simply come out the woodwork to play once again.

    Going after ISIS is a fool’s errand preordained to fail, exactly like GWB’s two fantasy based nation-building missions in Afghanistan and Iraq were also preordained to fail, and exactly like his so-called “war on terror” was also doomed to fail, especially when you understand the fact that Muslims are not terrorists but jihadists instead waging “holy war” against all infidels and especially the defenseless infidels because it offers the path of least resistance, in the cause of Allah to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme.

    Our only path to victory is to target and eradicate mainstream orthodox Islam, whatever that takes. Of course, to do that our politicians will have to admit first that mainstream orthodox Islam is the problem as opposed to the political correct myth of radical Islam, which doesn’t even exist in real life, but we are not even close to that happening at this point.

    Indeed, look at this writer of this article. He is absolutely oblivious of Islam like our politicians are also oblivious.

    For instance, [ISIS] is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida’s anti-West ideology.

    No the members of ISIS are not extremists at all. It’s a mainstream orthodox Islamic group dedicated to waging jihad violently, as opposed to the millions of mainstream orthodox Muslim that have migrated to the infidel world in mass to wage jihad non-violently by design in order to infiltrate our societies for the long-term strategic purpose of stealth demographic conquest.

    Indeed, this writer is writing about Islam from the stand point that Islam is a so-called “religion of peace” and that all Muslims that deviate from that stand point are extremists and radicals. In other words, it couldn’t be more obvious, he doesn’t have the first clue what Islam is. Indeed, he is totally oblivious of Islam’s long history until the end of WWI of permanent and perpetual jihad waged against all infidels, and as such he is just as oblivious as all our politicians.

    Walter, I love you man, but leave the writing about Islam to the experts please.

    • Thomas J. Hennigan

      Agreed. A halt should be called to mahomedan immigration. At the same time all mosques should be investigated for promoting jihad and once the obvious fact that they are doing just that, they should be shut down. Then, muslims who are no citizens should be expelled. Those who are should be given money to go back to their muslim dominated countries, as that would be a lot cheaper than keeping them on the dole as most of them are not productive in any case. Islam should be explained to the population for what it is: a totalitarian political ideology plus a fanatical religion in contradiction to the constitution and laws of Western countries and it should be banned, not as a religion but as a political system intent on overturning the state. If it were only a religion which had to do with praying and didn¿t teach people to massacre others, no one would have any problem with it. It is not just a religion. How can anything like that be done when the lefties beginning with Obama and Kerry are all for the jihadis?

  • ricpic

    What will happen after a horrific dirty bomb attack? Obama will admonish Americans not to overreact. That will be the moment of truth. Because if there is not an overthrow of the government (which is not the nation) at that point we might as well adjust to the inevitable — conversion to Islam or death.

  • mollysdad

    The Caliphate’s strength and the West’s weakness is this.

    The men of the Caliphate are totally and unshakably convinced that Islam is the one true religion. The West has no conviction that it isn’t.

    If the Islamists were to plant WMD in American cities, causing the deaths of millions of Americans, then Americans may have no choice – if they want to live – but to launch pogroms against the Muslims in their midst on a “convert or die” basis. They wouldn’t do this unless convinced that to embrace Islam is to take the road to eternal damnation. If not, then they’d be likely to convert to Islam to save their lives.

  • RMThoughts

    If we are incapable of defending ourselves from internal enemies; if we cannot defend our borders; if we cannot protect ourselves from our renegade courts; etc.,….then the answer has to be NO, America will not defend itself. The reality is ISIS is the smallest threat we face although reading the MSM and conservative media one would never believe it..

  • EamonnDublin

    “Civilizations are never defeated – they commit SUICIDE”. This is a truism that is in the process of being proven yet again. What I cannot understand is that the “Suicider in Chief” – Barack Hussein Obama – is allowed by apathy to STILL be President of the United States and “Leader of the Free World”. He is leading us all to total destruction. Ooops, wait a second, I had momentarily forgotten just there, Obama is NOT leading the race to suicide – he is winning his own fight. This is very obviously what he WANTS!! And our other “leaders” who should be impeaching him just sit by and watch. I am sure their granddaughters will be very proud of them!!??!!?? Éamonn, Dublin, Ireand.

  • Horace Yo

    Islam is a totalitarian/theocratic political system. It is also parasitic in that it cannot thrive without a host to live off. Williams is right in that the important functional reality for us is that we are only vulnerable to the parasite through a willing submission to it. We are willfully blind to the evils inherent in it.
    In adition though, as a culture, we are on suicide road in many ways even without Islam. We are demographically on the skids anyway. Birth control backed up by sodomy and abortion (50 million baby Americans killed,Millions living and dying with Aids) has been very successful in killing us off. We depend on third world immigration (Thanks Teddy Kennedy) and are not replacing ourselves. Islam is just a giant opportunistic hyena creature here to administer the coup de grace and eat the corpse. Communism, Atheism and the obvious debauchery and its accompanying diseases, both mental and physical, we are surrounded by will kill us off soon anyway. Satanic murder cult Islam will just hurry it along by Jihad. The Muz Brotherhood got it right in their charter statement “The civilizational-jihadist process…is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house…so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious overall other religions,” .The leftists want to ignore it so they can keep destroying us themselves at their own pace. Dark times. Islam is a necrotic phenomenon that can’t be stopped by a society already willingly wallowing in a culture of death like a sabre tooth tiger in a tar pit. On a more cheerful note, after the Jihadis take over the west, the Chinese will probably nuke them all.

  • Horace Yo

    Isn’t it obvious that Obama is on the wrong side in the Islamist Jihad holy war?
    He is either an idiot (not likely) or a willful helper to the Jihadis. Taquia or Kitman, which is it?? Secretary of BS, Lurch Kerry is a traditionalist in that he always supports the wrong side. Hillary and Huma are probably baking cookies for ISIS.

  • sam000

    The west is killing the people who fight isis since 1979,
    ISIS, Hezbollah, HAMAS, & all Islamic terrorist groups are funded & backed by the Iranian Mullahs.