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The following article by General Chong is the best analysis of the
>>> worldwide terror we face that I ever have read. I had no idea who General Chong is
>>> or the source of these Thoughts... So when I received them, I almost deleted
>>> them as well-written as they are. But then I did a "Google search" on the
>>> General and found him to be a retired Air Force Surgeon of all things and past
>>> Commander of Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. So he is real and >>>connected to Veterans affairs, and these are his thoughts. They are worth reading and
>>> thinking about!! (The same Google search will direct you to some of his
>>> other thought-provoking writings.)
>>> MG Vernon Chong, USAFR, forwarded: This WAR is for REAL!
>>> To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country
>>> is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we
>>> have faced in your lifetime and mine (Which includes WWII).
>>> The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are
>>> very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize
>>> what losing really means.
>>>
>>> First, let's examine a few basics:
>>> 1. When did the threat to us start? Many will say September 11, 2001.
>>> The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to
>>> September 2001, with the following Attacks on us:
>>>
>>> * Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
>>> * Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
>>> * Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
>>> * Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
>>> * First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
>>> * Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
>>> * Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
>>> * Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
>>> * Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
>>> * New York World Trade Center 2001;
>>> * Pentagon 2001.
>>>
>>> (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581
>>> terrorist attacks worldwide).
>>>
>>> 2. Why were we attacked? Envy of our position, our success, and our
>>> freedoms. The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter,
>>> Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot Fault either the Republicans or
>>> Democrats as there were no Provocations by any of the presidents or their
>>> immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
>>>
>>> 3. Who were the attackers? In each case, the attacks on the US were
>>> carried out by Muslims.
>>>
>>> 4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.
>>>
>>> 5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful? Hopefully, but that is Really not
>>> material. There is no doubt that the predominately Christian population
>>> of Germany was peaceful, but under the Dictatorial leadership of Hitler
>>> (who was also Christian), that Made no difference. You either went along with the
>>> administration Or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million
>>> Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish
>>> Priests).
>>>
>>> (See: http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm
>>> http://WWW.nazis.testimony.co.UK/7-a.htm)
>>>
>>> Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as
>>> the six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, And we seldom heard of
>>> anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused
>>> on the Jews, he had no Hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of
>>> exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world - German, Christian
>>> or any others.
>>>
>>> Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, But
>>> kill all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The
>>> point here is that just like the Peaceful Germans were of no protection to
>>> anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they >>>are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they Are
>>> fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements -- Killing all
>>> of us "infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the
>>> choice was shut up or die?
>>>
>>> 6. So who are we at war with? There is no way we can honestly respond
>>> that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically
>>> correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to
>>> win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.
>>>
>>> So with that background, now to the two major questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Can we lose this war?
>>> 2. What does losing really mean?
>>>
>>> If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions.
>>>
>>> We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the
>>> major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer
>>> to the second question - What does losing mean?
>>>
>>> It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means
>>> hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business,
>>> like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing
>>> really means is:
>>> We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will
>>> not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead,
>>> not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have
>>> produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years. The
>>> plan was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until we were neutered and
>>> submissive to them. We would of course have no future support from other nations, >>>for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see, we are impotent and
>>> cannot help them.
>>>
>>> They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will
>>> be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It
>>> doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from
>>> Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to
>>> withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be done.
>>> Spain is finished.
>>>
>>> The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they
>>> might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in
>>> that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already
>>> be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast!
>>>
>>> If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will
>>> all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us, if
>>> they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslims, how could
>>>anyone else?
>>>
>>> The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are
>>> completely committed to winning, at any cost. We
better know it too and be likewise
>>> committed to winning at any cost.
>>>
>>> Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple,
>>> until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of
>>> our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100%
>>> effort to win.
>>>
>>> So, how can we lose the war?
>>> Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That
>>> is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their
>>> purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are
>>> united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is
>>> no way that we can win!
>>>
>>> Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the
>>> life and death seriousness of this situation.
>>>
>>> President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
>>> Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and
>>> 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that
>>> sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war! For the duration, we
>>> are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed
>>> to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we
>>> will most certainly lose all of them permanently.
>>>
>>> And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil
>>> rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact
>>> added many more since then.
>>>
>>> Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?
>>>
>>> No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our
>>> Political Correctness and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a
>>> clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of
>>> your head. Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the
>>> Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten
>>> to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't
>>> recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to
>>> the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it
>>> does great damage to our cause.
>>>
>>> Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media
>>> regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I
>>> am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few
>>> Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police. These are the
>>> type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off
>>> buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise
>>> murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.
>>>
>>> And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed
>>> 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type
>>>enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans and dragging their charred
>>> corpses through the streets of Iraq.
>>>
>>> And still more recently, the same type enemy that was and is providing
>>> videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners
>>> they held.
>>>
>>> Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several
>>> days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some
>>> Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses
>>> through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.
>>>
>>> Can this be for real?
>>>
>>> The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the
>>> Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and
>>> understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death >>>struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war,
>>> nothing can.
>>>
>>> To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as
Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in >>>the real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. >>>Again I say, this does not
mean that some
>>> of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they are
>>> absolutely oblivious to the magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which
>>> the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.
>>>
>>> Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels!
>>> That translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United States, but
>>> throughout the world.
>>>
>>> We are the last bastion of defense.
>>>
>>> We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge
>>> is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are
>>> so good powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those
>>> who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat
>>> anything bad in the world!
>>>
>>> We can't!
>>>
>>> If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive,
>>> and no other free country in the world will survive if we are defeated.
>>>
>>> And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow
>>> freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the
>>> press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status or any status for
>>> women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the
>>> good of the world.
>>>
>>> This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or
>>> we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman
>>> Empire If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written
>>> or read.
>>>
>>> If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims
>>> take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase
>>> the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little,
>>> on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among
>>> themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken
>>> them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?
>>>
>>> Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some
>>> external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically
>>> correct piece by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away >>>to those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it
to >>>you or even to themselves, once they are in power.
>>>
>>> They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then
>>> start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the
>>> masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the
>>> "peaceful Muslims"?
>>>
>>> I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are
>>> united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the election, the
>>> factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in, and
>>> will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about! Do
>>> whatever you can to preserve it.
>>>
>>> After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but
>>> our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world.
>>>
>>> Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that
>>> includes the Politicians and media of our country and the free world!
>>>
>>> Please feel free to forward/send this email to anyone you think may
>>> want, or NEED to read it. Our "leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too.
>>>
>>> There are those that find fault with our country, but it is obvious to
>>> anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE!
>>>
>>>
>>> These are President Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an
>>> AMERICAN.
>>>
>>> "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes
>>> here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall
>>> be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
>>> discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or
>>> origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an
>>> American and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here.
>>>Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at
>>> all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but
>>> one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for
>>> but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
>>>
>>> Theodore Roosevelt in 1907
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