America’s
Enemies - “Bleed the Dragon” by Major General Paul E. Vallely, U.S. Army
(Retired)
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America’s Enemies
- “Bleed the Dragon”
by
Major
General Paul E. Vallely
U.S.
Army (Retired)
“The
Dragon Lies Bleeding”
Hammerfall
“Ride
through the valley in thunder and rain. The battle is raging, redeem this
domain. The castle of Eden lies silent above. Darkness surrounded us, away we
must go. I look through the eyes of the world. I see there are strangers
among us. Awaiting a sign from above to conquer the power and the glory.
Enter the battle, our will to enchain. Bringing us forward, defeating the pain.
Into
the meeting with swords made of steel. We’re standing together the secret
reveals. I look through the eyes of the world. I know the stranger among
us. Awaiting a sign from above. To conquer the power and glory.
Come across to the Promised Land. Close your eyes, I will take your hand.
Through the river of steel well go. When the dragon lies bleeding.”
The
enemies at home and abroad and demeanors of the United States have taken to
view our country as an evil Dragon that must be bled of its power and
stature. As the mythology of the dragon goes, you could not slay the dragon
with one spear but that it would take many spears into the body of the dragon
to slay it and “bleed it to death”. As you look at the world today, our
enemies both foreign and domestic are sending those spears into the body of the
United States. I do not have the opportunity in this writing to discuss the
various spears in detail other than to list them………
· Economic
and Financial
·
Radical
Jihad/Enablers of International Terrorism and the planned Caliphate
· The
naïve and progressive media
· Weak
and misguided leadership in Congress and the White House
· Globalism
and multi-culturalism
· United
Nations and their subversives
· Progressive
Socialists
· Rogue
nations pursuing the development and use of nuclear /EMP technology and
delivery systems
· War
on the Southern Border
These
are just nine of the “spears” that must be addressed by a revised US National Strategy
to survive. The US has always drawn operational plans from strategic doctrine.
The American people face unprecedented threats and vulnerabilities. The global
“Chessboard” (see our Chessboard series of articles) is being reset daily as we
observe the key players of the world cleverly moving their chess pieces. If we
continue America’s near-total reliance upon the logic of deterrence and
appeasement, we will be doomed to be bled to death. Continued belief in
classical threat-system dynamics could be problematic, even if American
planners were to just focus on state sponsors and terrorist proxies (like
Hezbollah). These states, like their surrogates, value particular religious or
ideological preferences more highly than their own lives and freedoms.
Our
nation simply does not have the human and financial resources to continue
investing blood and treasure into nation building enterprises or foreign aid
packages into the Middle East. Obama along with other broke, financially
strapped European countries is now committing billions of new US dollars to new
nation building in the Middle East. All of these Islamic countries seem
to be willing to protect terrorists/jihadists, rule by Sharia law in the guise
of seeking democracy, and chastise America at every opportunity for their own
selfish interests and hope of keeping U.S. money flowing into their coffers.
How senseless is this? Oh, Treasury, keep printing money - no problem there!
Maybe I am naïve, but I think we need to shore up America first.
As
I was advised years ago (2001 to be precise) by an Arab confidant, “ Do not put
bases or occupying land forces into the Middle East, as it is a
giant SPONGE that will soak up everything with no viable
end!”…meaning human and financial resources……Our enemies understand that by
bleeding the United States, they will see America fall in self-destruction and
commit national suicide. It is time to reposition our forces and change
our global strategy.
We
must have more sense and wisdom about engagement and conflicts in this year
2012. We do not seem to look back in history well and have major problems in
seeing the future. We seem to be a nation that is rudderless. We, the people,
are the “Masters of our Fate and Captains of our Soul and Destiny.”
The
Nature of change – War and conflict will remain a human endeavor, a
conflict between two forces, yet changes in the political landscape,
adaptations by the enemy, and advances in technology and techniques will change
the character of the battle. Leaders are often late to recognize such changes
and adjust to the proper uses of hard and soft power options, and even when
they do, inertia tends to limit their ability to adapt quickly. Driven by an
inherent desire to bring order to a disorderly, chaotic universe, human beings
tend to frame their thoughts about the future in terms of continuities and
extrapolations from the present and occasionally the past. But a brief look at
the past quarter century, to say nothing of the past four thousand years,
suggests the extent of changes that coming decades will bring.
Any
updated US strategic doctrine will still have to include preemption across
many fronts. Inevitably, there will be new perils that may require
“anticipatory self-defense.” Where rationality cannot be assumed, and where the
effectiveness of missile defense would be low, the only alternative to capable
and lawful forms of American preemption could be surrender and defeat.
All
policy makers need to ask and answer to the American people, “What is the US
and Western civilization fighting for?” “What is it that we are defending and
protecting based on our Constitution?” Well, it's everything that shariah
Islam stands against: Judeo-Christian principles, individual liberty, equality
before the law, equality of Muslim and non-Muslim, men and women; it is the
freedom to believe as our conscience directs us, even if that means no belief
at all, or changing beliefs; it means protections for minorities; pluralism,
and tolerance....but all within the ethical framework of human reason
as laid down by the Founding Fathers.
Until
we know who and what we are, we will not only be unsuccessful at
nation-building elsewhere - we will steadily lose what we have here at
home - and not just for economic reasons
That's
the fundamental problem that has us squandering our blood and treasures all
over the place - the enemy knows this and counts on it - his doctrine is
fixed, sure, immutable....and he knows we are post-modern, progressive,
multiculturalism, morally relativist, etc.....that's the foundation of this
conflict. He knows who he is and what he's fighting for and we do not.
We
will be able to find our way through chaos and changing circumstances only when
we acknowledge and hold fast to our own core beliefs, history and principles
and traditions. It is not a simple world. Strategic doctrine is always a
complex matter, and any improved US plan will have to be creative as well as
comprehensive. In turn, the options will require enemy perceptions of
persuasive American power and of an American willingness to actually
use this power. Meaningful policies can emerge only from a carefully
re-conceptualized US strategic forward doctrine. Stop the bleeding
NOW!!!!
Paul
E Vallely MG US Army (Ret) is Chairman of the Stand Up America Group
Paul
E. Vallely MG, US Army (ret)
Chairman
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1 comment:
Well said General
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