Why We Are Bogged Down in Afghanistan

September 16, 2019 By Pamela Geller

Last Friday, I spoke at the Eagle Council in St. Louis, where both the speaker roster and the audience were full of stalwart, indomitable patriots. One of the patriots there was Mark Schneider, President of Gen IV Nuclear Inc. in Chesapeake, Virginia. He served for twenty years in the Special Forces and was on the ground in Iraq and Kuwait, and he offered a disquieting insight into an important but overlooked reason why our lengthy military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have borne so little fruit.

Schneider was in the United States military from 1998 to 2018, years during which the primary threat that our nation faced was the global jihad, which was, after all, the reason why we had our forces in Iraq and Kuwait, as well as Afghanistan, in the first place. We had a long and fascinating conversation, but the most important takeaway was this: I asked him, “In all that time, from 1998 to 2018, were you given one class, or even one lesson, or were recommended one book, anything at all, that discussed Islam’s doctrine of warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers?

No. Not one...........To Read More...

My Take - The real problem is no one reads any longer, and most importantly, no one reads history books.  Jihad is unending. That's what Islam preaches.  Islam is now, and has always been, at war with everyone and everything in opposition to Islam.  In short, they've been at war with everything we believe in, and has been for 1400 years.  They only demand tolerance when they're weak politically. Once they become dominent politically or militarily, they demand and impose obedience and intolerance.

The fact they became recessive in their power, after WWI, is meaningless to the fact Islam was the dominant power overcoming what was left of Rome and almost conquering all of Europe. 

In Western Europe Charles Martel, the Hammer of France, stopped them at the Battle of Tours in 732 and in Eastern Europe Jon Sobieski, the King of Poland, stopped them at the Siege of Vienna in 1683.  But they weren't driven out of Spain until 1492, and they captured Constantinople in 1453.  They landed invasion forces in Italy, and even in Ireland. 

The world is at war with Islam.  And it's a religious war.  It doesn't matter if we want a religious war or not.  It's not our decision to make.  They've made that decision for us. 

The moral foundation of Islam is lust, greed, hate and violence.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.  Why is that so hard to understand?  Why are the world's leaders playing cute with these monsters?  Because it doesn't fit the failed narrative of multiculturalism, and since Western nations have largely abandoned Christianity, these leaders are getting away with treason to their people and their nations. 

Recommended Reading: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West