This is one of the most profound articles that I have ever read about
our Government, this era and the war against terrorism.
Everything this man says makes perfect sense to me. No matter your
politics, you owe it to yourself to read and pass on so we all are
informed of what's going on in our world!
Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the Middle
East problems, this one is from the guy who had his finger on the
nuclear trigger for three years as head of our defense and response
complex buried under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs. He was
the only person who could initiate a nuclear attack after advising
the sitting president of a missile launch by our enemies and our need
to respond. No political or civilian type in the US had more
knowledge about day-to-day military actions around the world.
Everyone should find quiet time to read this. As far as I am
concerned, it is exactly the direction we should go and the
consequences of not doing so are well thought out.
John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired)
I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against
radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put
this conflict in proper perspective.
Understand, the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger than
just Iraq. What happens in the next year will affect this country and
how our kids and grandkids live throughout their lifetime, and
beyond. Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the seventh
century. They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the
point of taking hundreds of years to recover. But they can never be
totally defeated. Their birth rates are so far beyond civilized world
rates that in time they recover and attempt to dominate again.
There are eight terror-sponsoring countries that make up the grand
threat to the West. Two, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, just need firm
pressure from the West to make major reforms. They need to decide who
they are really going to support and commit to that support. That
answer is simple. They both will support who they think will hang in
there until the end, and win. We are not sending very good signals
in that direction right now, thanks to the Democrats.
The other six, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya
will require regime change or a major policy shift. Now, let's look
more closely.
Afghanistan and Iraq have both had regime changes, but are being
fueled by outsiders from Syria and Iran. We have scared Gaddafi's
pants off, and he has given up his quest for nuclear weapons, so I
don't think Libya is now a threat.
North Korea (the non-Islamic threat) can be handled diplomatically
by buying them off. They are starving. That leaves Syria and Iran.
Syria is like a frightened puppy. Without the support of Iran they
will join the stronger side. So where does that leave us? Sooner, or
later, we are going to be forced to confront Iran, and it better be
before they gain nuclear capability.
In 1989 I served as a Command Director inside the Cheyenne Mountain
complex located in Colorado Springs, Colorado for almost three years.
My job there was to observe (through classified means) every missile
shot anywhere in the world and assess if it was a threat to the US or
Canada. If any shot was threatening to either nation I had only
minutes to advise the President, as he had only minutes to respond. I
watched Iran and Iraq shoot missiles at each other every day, and all
day long, for months. They killed hundreds of thousand of their
people. Know why? They were fighting for control of the Middle East
and that enormous oil supply.
At that time, they were preoccupied with their internal problems and
could care less about toppling the west. Oil prices were fairly
stable and we could not see an immediate threat. Well, the worst part
of what we have done as a nation in Iraq is to do away with the
military capability of one of those nations. Now, Iran has a clear
field to dominate the Middle East, since Iraq is no longer a threat
to them. They have turned their attention to the only other threat to
their dominance, they are convinced they will win, because the US is
so divided, and the Democrats (who now control Congress and may
control the Presidency in 2008) have openly said we are pulling out.
Do you have any idea what will happen if the entire Middle East
turns their support to Iran, which they will obviously do if we pull
out? It is not the price of oil we will have to worry about Oil WILL
NOT BE AVAILABLE to this country at any price. I personally would
vote for any presidential candidate who did what JFK did with the
space program---declare a goal to bring this country to total energy
independence in a decade.
Yes, it is about oil. The economy in this country will totally die
if that Middle East supply is cut off right now. It will not be a
recession. It will be a depression that will make 1929 look like the
"good-old-days". The bottom line here is simple. If Iran is forced to
fall in line, the fighting in Iraq will end over night, and the
nightmare will be over.
One way or another, Iran must be forced to join modern times and the
global community. It may mean a real war---if so, now is the time,
before we face a nuclear Iran with the capacity to destroy Israel and
begin a new ice age. I urge you to read the book "END GAME" by two of
our best Middle East experts, true American patriots and retired
military generals, Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney. They are our
finest, and totally honest in their assessment of why victory in the
Middle East is so important, and how it can be won. Proceeds for the
book go directly to memorial fund for our fallen soldiers who served
the country during the war on terror. You can find that book by going
to the Internet through Stand-up America at www.ospreyradio.us or
www.rightalk.com On the other hand, we have several very angry retired generals
today, who evidently have not achieved their lofty goals, and insist
on ranting and raving about the war. They are wrong, and doing the
country great harm by giving a certain political party reason to use
them as experts to back their anti-war claims.
You may be one of those who believe nothing could ever be terrible
enough to support our going to war. If that is the case I should stop
here, as that level of thinking approaches mental disability in this
day and age. It is right up there with alien abductions and high
altitude seeding through government aircraft contrails. I helped
produced those contrails for almost 30 years, and I can assure you we
were not seeding the atmosphere. The human race is a war-like
population, and if a country is not willing to protect itself, it
deserves the consequences. Nuff-said!!!
Now, my last comments will get to the nerve. They will be on
politics. I am not a Republican. And, George Bush has made enough
mistakes as President to insure my feelings about that for the rest
of my life. However, the Democratic Party has moved so far left, they
have made me support those farther to the right. I am a conservative
who totally supports the Constitution of this country. The only
difference between the United States and the South American, third
world, dictator infested and ever-changing South American
governments, is our US Constitution.
This Republic (note I did not say Democracy) is the longest standing
the world has ever known, but it is vulnerable. It would take so
little to change it through economic upheaval. There was a time when
politicians could disagree, but still work together. We are past that
time, and that is the initial step toward the downfall of our form of
government.
I think that many view Bush-hating as payback time. The Republicans
hated the Clinton's and now the Democrats hate Bush. So, both parties
are putting their hate toward willingness to do anything for
political dominance to include lying and always taking the opposite
stand just for the sake of being opposed. JUST HOW GOOD IS THAT FOR
OUR COUNTRY?
In my lifetime, after serving in uniform for President's Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush I have a pretty good
feel for which party supported our military, and what military life
was like under each of their terms. And, let me assure you that times
were best under the Republicans.
Service under Jimmy Carter was devastating for all branches of the
military. And, Ronald Reagan was truly a salvation. You can choose to
listen to enriched newscasters, and foolish people like John Murtha
(he is no war hero), Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael Moore, Jane
Fonda, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and
on- and-on to include the true fools in Hollywood if you like. If you
do, your conclusions will be totally wrong.
The reason that I write, appear on radio talk shows, and do
everything I can to denounce those people is simple. THEY ARE PUTTING
THEIR THIRST FOR POLITICAL POWER AND QUEST FOR VICTORY IN 2008 ABOVE
WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY. I cannot abide that. Pelosi clearly
defied the Logan Act by going to Syria, which should have lead to
imprisonment of three years and a heavy fine. Jane Fonda did more to
prolong the Vietnam War longer than any other human being (as
acknowledged by Ho Chi Minh in his writing before he died). She truly
should have been indicted for treason, along with her radical
husband, Tom Hayden, and forced to pay the consequences.
This country has started to soften by not enforcing its laws, which
is another indication of a Republic about to fall. All Democrats,
along
...
i have a wind chime in my yard to keep unicorns and drug crazed
trolls
away form my house and the rest of the country as well . i works the
same way the bush terror alerts work . a lot of noise that keeps the
imaginary threats away !
> This is one of the most profound articles that I have ever read about
> our Government, this era and the war against terrorism.
> Everything this man says makes perfect sense to me. No matter your
> politics, you owe it to yourself to read and pass on so we all are
> informed of what's going on in our world!
> Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the Middle
> East problems, this one is from the guy who had his finger on the
> nuclear trigger for three years as head of our defense and response
> complex buried under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs. He was
> the only person who could initiate a nuclear attack after advising
> the sitting president of a missile launch by our enemies and our need
> to respond. No political or civilian type in the US had more
> knowledge about day-to-day military actions around the world.
> Everyone should find quiet time to read this. As far as I am
> concerned, it is exactly the direction we should go and the
> consequences of not doing so are well thought out.
> John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired)
> I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against
> radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put
> this conflict in proper perspective.
> Understand, the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger than
> just Iraq. What happens in the next year will affect this country and
> how our kids and grandkids live throughout their lifetime, and
> beyond. Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the seventh
> century. They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the
> point of taking hundreds of years to recover. But they can never be
> totally defeated. Their birth rates are so far beyond civilized world
> rates that in time they recover and attempt to dominate again.
> There are eight terror-sponsoring countries that make up the grand
> threat to the West. Two, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, just need firm
> pressure from the West to make major reforms. They need to decide who
> they are really going to support and commit to that support. That
> answer is simple. They both will support who they think will hang in
> there until the end, and win. We are not sending very good signals
> in that direction right now, thanks to the Democrats.
> The other six, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya
> will require regime change or a major policy shift. Now, let's look
> more closely.
> Afghanistan and Iraq have both had regime changes, but are being
> fueled by outsiders from Syria and Iran. We have scared Gaddafi's
> pants off, and he has given up his quest for nuclear weapons, so I
> don't think Libya is now a threat.
> North Korea (the non-Islamic threat) can be handled diplomatically
> by buying them off. They are starving. That leaves Syria and Iran.
> Syria is like a frightened puppy. Without the support of Iran they
> will join the stronger side. So where does that leave us? Sooner, or
> later, we are going to be forced to confront Iran, and it better be
> before they gain nuclear capability.
> In 1989 I served as a Command Director inside the Cheyenne Mountain
> complex located in Colorado Springs, Colorado for almost three years.
> My job there was to observe (through classified means) every missile
> shot anywhere in the world and assess if it was a threat to the US or
> Canada. If any shot was threatening to either nation I had only
> minutes to advise the President, as he had only minutes to respond. I
> watched Iran and Iraq shoot missiles at each other every day, and all
> day long, for months. They killed hundreds of thousand of their
> people. Know why? They were fighting for control of the Middle East
> and that enormous oil supply.
> At that time, they were preoccupied with their internal problems and
> could care less about toppling the west. Oil prices were fairly
> stable and we could not see an immediate threat. Well, the worst part
> of what we have done as a nation in Iraq is to do away with the
> military capability of one of those nations. Now, Iran has a clear
> field to dominate the Middle East, since Iraq is no longer a threat
> to them. They have turned their attention to the only other threat to
> their dominance, they are convinced they will win, because the US is
> so divided, and the Democrats (who now control Congress and may
> control the Presidency in 2008) have openly said we are pulling out.
> Do you have any idea what will happen if the entire Middle East
> turns their support to Iran, which they will obviously do if we pull
> out? It is not the price of oil we will have to worry about Oil WILL
> NOT BE AVAILABLE to this country at any price. I personally would
> vote for any presidential candidate who did what JFK did with the
> space program---declare a goal to bring this country to total energy
> independence in a decade.
> Yes, it is about oil. The economy in this country will totally die
> if that Middle East supply is cut off right now. It will not be a
> recession. It will be a depression that will make 1929 look like the
> "good-old-days". The bottom line here is simple. If Iran is forced to
> fall in line, the fighting in Iraq will end over night, and the
> nightmare will be over.
> One way or another, Iran must be forced to join modern times and the
> global community. It may mean a real war---if so, now is the time,
> before we face a nuclear Iran with the capacity to destroy Israel and
> begin a new ice age. I urge you to read the book "END GAME" by two of
> our best Middle East experts, true American patriots and retired
> military generals, Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney. They are our
> finest, and totally honest in their assessment of why victory in the
> Middle East is so important, and how it can be won. Proceeds for the
> book go directly to memorial fund for our fallen soldiers who served
> the country during the war on terror. You can find that book by going
> to the Internet through Stand-up America atwww.ospreyradio.usorwww.rightalk.com > On the other hand, we have several very angry retired generals
> today, who evidently have not achieved their lofty goals, and insist
> on ranting and raving about the war. They are wrong, and doing the
> country great harm by giving a certain political party reason to use
> them as experts to back their anti-war claims.
> You may be one of those who believe nothing could ever be terrible
> enough to support our going to war. If that is the case I should stop
> here, as that level of thinking approaches mental disability in this
> day and age. It is right up there with alien abductions and high
> altitude seeding through government aircraft contrails. I helped
> produced those contrails for almost 30 years, and I can assure you we
> were not seeding the atmosphere. The human race is a war-like
> population, and if a country is not willing to protect itself, it
> deserves the consequences. Nuff-said!!!
> Now, my last comments will get to the nerve. They will be on
> politics. I am not a Republican. And, George Bush has made enough
> mistakes as President to insure my feelings about that for the rest
> of my life. However, the Democratic Party has moved so far left, they
> have made me support those farther to the right. I am a conservative
> who totally supports the Constitution of this country. The only
> difference between the United States and the South American, third
> world, dictator infested and ever-changing South American
> governments, is our US Constitution.
> This Republic (note I did not say Democracy) is the longest standing
> the world has ever known, but it is vulnerable. It would take so
> little to change it through economic upheaval. There was a time when
> politicians could disagree, but still work together. We are past that
> time, and that is the initial step toward the downfall of our form of
> government.
> I think that many view Bush-hating as payback time. The Republicans
> hated the Clinton's and now the Democrats hate Bush. So, both parties
> are putting their hate toward willingness to do anything for
> political dominance to include lying and always taking the opposite
> stand just for the sake of being opposed. JUST HOW GOOD IS THAT FOR
> OUR COUNTRY?
> In my lifetime, after serving in uniform for President's Kennedy,
> Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush I have a pretty good
> feel for which party supported our military, and what military life
> was like under each of their terms. And, let me assure you that times
> were best under the Republicans.
> Service under Jimmy Carter was devastating for all branches of the
> military. And, Ronald Reagan was truly a salvation. You can choose to
> listen to enriched newscasters, and foolish people like John Murtha
> (he is no war hero), Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael Moore, Jane
> Fonda, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and
> on- and-on to include the true fools in Hollywood if you like. If you
> do, your conclusions will be totally wrong.
> The reason that I write, appear on radio talk shows, and do
> everything I can to denounce those people is simple. THEY ARE
Lew, usually whan someone hits me with an "in your face" demand like
"agree or disagree" I will disagree on general principles. In this
case, I see a mixture of positive and negative factors. There is some
good material in the article and some world class bullshit.
> This is one of the most profound articles that I have ever read about
> our Government, this era and the war against terrorism.
> Everything this man says makes perfect sense to me. No matter your
> politics, you owe it to yourself to read and pass on so we all are
> informed of what's going on in our world!
> Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the Middle
> East problems, this one is from the guy who had his finger on the
> nuclear trigger for three years as head of our defense and response
> complex buried under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs. He was
> the only person who could initiate a nuclear attack after advising
> the sitting president of a missile launch by our enemies and our need
> to respond. No political or civilian type in the US had more
> knowledge about day-to-day military actions around the world.
> Everyone should find quiet time to read this. As far as I am
> concerned, it is exactly the direction we should go and the
> consequences of not doing so are well thought out.
> John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General, USAF (Retired)
> I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against
> radical Islam, eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put
> this conflict in proper perspective.
> Understand, the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger than
> just Iraq. What happens in the next year will affect this country and
> how our kids and grandkids live throughout their lifetime, and
> beyond. Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the seventh
> century. They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the
> point of taking hundreds of years to recover. But they can never be
> totally defeated. Their birth rates are so far beyond civilized world
> rates that in time they recover and attempt to dominate again.
> There are eight terror-sponsoring countries that make up the grand
> threat to the West. Two, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, just need firm
> pressure from the West to make major reforms. They need to decide who
> they are really going to support and commit to that support. That
> answer is simple. They both will support who they think will hang in
> there until the end, and win. We are not sending very good signals
> in that direction right now, thanks to the Democrats.
> The other six, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya
> will require regime change or a major policy shift. Now, let's look
> more closely.
> Afghanistan and Iraq have both had regime changes, but are being
> fueled by outsiders from Syria and Iran. We have scared Gaddafi's
> pants off, and he has given up his quest for nuclear weapons, so I
> don't think Libya is now a threat.
> North Korea (the non-Islamic threat) can be handled diplomatically
> by buying them off. They are starving. That leaves Syria and Iran.
> Syria is like a frightened puppy. Without the support of Iran they
> will join the stronger side. So where does that leave us? Sooner, or
> later, we are going to be forced to confront Iran, and it better be
> before they gain nuclear capability.
> In 1989 I served as a Command Director inside the Cheyenne Mountain
> complex located in Colorado Springs, Colorado for almost three years.
> My job there was to observe (through classified means) every missile
> shot anywhere in the world and assess if it was a threat to the US or
> Canada. If any shot was threatening to either nation I had only
> minutes to advise the President, as he had only minutes to respond. I
> watched Iran and Iraq shoot missiles at each other every day, and all
> day long, for months. They killed hundreds of thousand of their
> people. Know why? They were fighting for control of the Middle East
> and that enormous oil supply.
> At that time, they were preoccupied with their internal problems and
> could care less about toppling the west. Oil prices were fairly
> stable and we could not see an immediate threat. Well, the worst part
> of what we have done as a nation in Iraq is to do away with the
> military capability of one of those nations. Now, Iran has a clear
> field to dominate the Middle East, since Iraq is no longer a threat
> to them. They have turned their attention to the only other threat to
> their dominance, they are convinced they will win, because the US is
> so divided, and the Democrats (who now control Congress and may
> control the Presidency in 2008) have openly said we are pulling out.
> Do you have any idea what will happen if the entire Middle East
> turns their support to Iran, which they will obviously do if we pull
> out? It is not the price of oil we will have to worry about Oil WILL
> NOT BE AVAILABLE to this country at any price. I personally would
> vote for any presidential candidate who did what JFK did with the
> space program---declare a goal to bring this country to total energy
> independence in a decade.
> Yes, it is about oil. The economy in this country will totally die
> if that Middle East supply is cut off right now. It will not be a
> recession. It will be a depression that will make 1929 look like the
> "good-old-days". The bottom line here is simple. If Iran is forced to
> fall in line, the fighting in Iraq will end over night, and the
> nightmare will be over.
> One way or another, Iran must be forced to join modern times and the
> global community. It may mean a real war---if so, now is the time,
> before we face a nuclear Iran with the capacity to destroy Israel and
> begin a new ice age. I urge you to read the book "END GAME" by two of
> our best Middle East experts, true American patriots and retired
> military generals, Paul Vallely and Tom McInerney. They are our
> finest, and totally honest in their assessment of why victory in the
> Middle East is so important, and how it can be won. Proceeds for the
> book go directly to memorial fund for our fallen soldiers who served
> the country during the war on terror. You can find that book by going
> to the Internet through Stand-up America atwww.ospreyradio.usorwww.rightalk.com > On the other hand, we have several very angry retired generals
> today, who evidently have not achieved their lofty goals, and insist
> on ranting and raving about the war. They are wrong, and doing the
> country great harm by giving a certain political party reason to use
> them as experts to back their anti-war claims.
> You may be one of those who believe nothing could ever be terrible
> enough to support our going to war. If that is the case I should stop
> here, as that level of thinking approaches mental disability in this
> day and age. It is right up there with alien abductions and high
> altitude seeding through government aircraft contrails. I helped
> produced those contrails for almost 30 years, and I can assure you we
> were not seeding the atmosphere. The human race is a war-like
> population, and if a country is not willing to protect itself, it
> deserves the consequences. Nuff-said!!!
> Now, my last comments will get to the nerve. They will be on
> politics. I am not a Republican. And, George Bush has made enough
> mistakes as President to insure my feelings about that for the rest
> of my life. However, the Democratic Party has moved so far left, they
> have made me support those farther to the right. I am a conservative
> who totally supports the Constitution of this country. The only
> difference between the United States and the South American, third
> world, dictator infested and ever-changing South American
> governments, is our US Constitution.
> This Republic (note I did not say Democracy) is the longest standing
> the world has ever known, but it is vulnerable. It would take so
> little to change it through economic upheaval. There was a time when
> politicians could disagree, but still work together. We are past that
> time, and that is the initial step toward the downfall of our form of
> government.
> I think that many view Bush-hating as payback time. The Republicans
> hated the Clinton's and now the Democrats hate Bush. So, both parties
> are putting their hate toward willingness to do anything for
> political dominance to include lying and always taking the opposite
> stand just for the sake of being opposed. JUST HOW GOOD IS THAT FOR
> OUR COUNTRY?
> In my lifetime, after serving in uniform for President's Kennedy,
> Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush I have a pretty good
> feel for which party supported our military, and what military life
> was like under each of their terms. And, let me assure you that times
> were best under the Republicans.
> Service under Jimmy Carter was devastating for all branches of the
> military. And, Ronald Reagan was truly a salvation. You can choose to
> listen to enriched newscasters, and foolish people like John Murtha
> (he is no war hero), Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael Moore, Jane
> Fonda, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and
> on- and-on to include the true fools in Hollywood if you like. If you
> do, your conclusions will be totally wrong.
> The reason that I write, appear on radio talk shows, and do
> everything I can to denounce those
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