VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
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Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
Former professor of psychology - Suffolk College, N.Y.
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NEW MIDEAST TURMOIL DRAMATIZES URGENCY OF MAGRUDER REPEATED CALL FOR DETERRENCE PLAN
“The president must issue a threat of retaliation immediately for any attack on America, while the civilized world demands Islam disavow hatred for others in the Koran.” – from interviews on Colorado and Florida radio stations.
The following is what will be said by Professor Magruder to the people of central Florida, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, in an interview on the 50,000 watt radio station, WDBO-580, in Orlando:
DETERRENCE NOW 2
by Leonard Magruder
August 6, 2006
Following are three basic, but contrasting interpretations as to the cause of Islamic terrorism.
1) “Root causes” is the problem.
The first is from the book Warrant for Terror by the noted Israeli strategist, Shmuel Bar.
“It cannot be ignored that the lion’s share of terrorist acts and the most devastating of them in recent years have been perpetrated in the name of Islam. This fact has sparked a fundamental debate both in the West and within the Muslim world regarding the link between these acts and the teachings of Islam. Most Western analysts are hesitant to identify such acts with the true teachings of one of the world’s great religions and prefer to view them as a perversion of a religion that is essentially peace-loving and tolerant. Their “root-cause” explanations include political causes (the Israeli-Arab conflict); cultural causes (rebellion against Western cultural colonialism or decadence); and social causes (alienation, poverty). While no public figure in the West would deny the imperative of fighting the war against terrorism, it is equally politically correct to add the statement that, for the war to be won, these grievances pertaining to the root causes of terrorism are justified and should be addressed. An interpretation which places the blame for terrorism on religious and cultural traits, they claim, runs the risk of being branded as bigoted and Islamophobic.”
2) U.S. forces in Muslim lands is the problem.
A second interpretation is found in an analysis of the most comprehensive collection of data on terrorism by professor of political science, Robert A. Pape of the University of Chicago in his recent book, Dying to Win.
“With data from more than 430 suicide attacks we now know that these individuals are not mainly poor, desperate criminals, or uneducated religious fanatics but are often well-educated, middle-class political activists. Terrorism is not primarily a product of Islamic fundamentalism. 95% of suicide terrorist attacks occur as part of coherent campaigns organized by large militant organizations with significant public support. Every suicide campaign has had a clear goal that is secular and political to compel a modern democracy to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland.”
3) Islam is the problem.
The third interpretation is from An End to Evil, by former CIA analysts David R. Frum and Richard Perle:
“The terrorists kill and will accept death for a cause with which no accommodation is possible. That cause is militant Islam. Moreover, these beliefs are not really confined to a radical fringe, but infect even ordinary Muslims. Even though it is comforting to deny it, all the available evidence indicates that militant Islam commands wide support, and even wider sympathy, among Muslims worldwide, including Muslim minorities in the West. The roots of Muslim rage are to be found in Islam itself. While there are multiple terrorist groups, the common element of Islam makes the threat monolithic. The ideology that justifies the terrible crimes of Hamas and Hezbollah is the same ideology that justifies the crimes of al-Qaeda. The result is an unlimited threat to dominate the world through Jihad. This strain seeks to overthrow our civilization and remake the nations of the West into Islamic societies, imposing upon the whole world its religion and its law.
THE BLACK WIND OF DEATH
Here are four items reported in the news recently that show the danger America faces from Islamic Jihad, from terrorist groups, but also entire Muslin nations issuing threats:
al Qaeda, in a statement claiming credit for the Madrid bombing, March 11, 2004: “We announce the good news for Muslims in the world that the strike of the black wind of death, the expected strike against America, is now in its final stages - 90 percent ready - and it is coming soon.” [note: Why “good news for Muslims?” Because they know that the vast majority of Muslims secretly or openly approve of a campaign of terror against “infidels.”]
WorldNetDaily recently reported this: “Top U.S. government officials are contemplating what they consider to be an inevitable and much bigger assault on America, one that is likely to kill millions, destroy the economy, and fundamentally alter the course of history. According to captured al-Qaeda leaders and documents, the plan is called ‘American Hiroshima’, and involves the multiple detonation of nuclear weapons already smuggled into the U.S.” [Note: The terrorists hope to ruin America in one blow. Multiple cities simultaneously could do it, as would an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.]
WND -Washington - James Woolsey, former director of the CIA, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February that Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who is close to Hezbollah, says he knows of 29 sites in the U.S. and the West and is ready to attack in order to “end Anglo-Saxon civilization.” An Iran campaign to recruit suicide bombers registered 55,000 ready to carry out attacks against two targets, “the infidels occupying Iraq, and Israel,” in a fight against “global blasphemy.” [that is, all non-Muslims.]
“Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans,” Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down bin Laden, told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes, Sunday, November 14, 2004. “Even if bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he wouldn’t have used it for a lack of proper religious authority, authority he now has.” The approval found that bin Laden was perfectly within his rights to use them, to kill up to four million Americans, two million of them children.”
Two comments – First: these items hint of horrendous destruction, far greater than 9/11 and must be taken very seriously; second: the idea that God has given bin Laden permission to murder 2 million American children should give anybody an insurmountable problem with Islam. In the light of this threat, no plan can be considered “too radical.” We must take no chances with insanity like this. It is this convergence of religion and murder that has rightly placed all civilized nations on high alert.
“WE ARE AT WAR WITH ISLAM”
Many see Islam as a religion that threatens all humanity. Sam Harris argues this in his best selling new book,” The End of Faith.”
“There is no question that, at this point in history, Islam represents a unique danger to all of us. Many Muslims are basically rational and tolerant of others. But as we will see, these virtues are not likely to be products of their faith. Insofar as a person is observant of the doctrines of Islam, that is, insofar as he really believes it, he will pose a problem for us. Most people in position of leadership in this country will say there is no direct link between the Muslim faith and terrorism. It is clear, however, that Muslims hate the West because of their faith and that the Koran mandates such hatred. It is widely claimed by ‘moderates’ that Islam is a ‘religion of peace.’ You need only to read the Koran to see that this is untrue. The basic thrust of Islam is undeniable: convert, subjugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates, and conquer the world. To convey the relentlessness with which unbelievers are vilified in the Koran, I provide a long compilation of quotations below in order of their appearance in the text. There is no substitute for confronting the Koran itself. On almost every page, the Koran instructs Muslims to despise non-believers. On almost every page it prepares the ground for religious conflict. Anyone who can read passages like these and still not see a link between Muslim faith and Muslim violence should probably consult a psychiatrist.”
[There then follow 6 pages of some three hundred sentences from the Koran, filled with hate for the unbeliever. We list a few examples below.]
Continuing, Harris writes,
“We are at war with Islam. It may not serve our immediate foreign policy objectives for our political leaders to openly acknowledge this fact, but it is unambiguously the truth. It is not true that we are at war with an otherwise ‘peaceful religion’ that has been ‘hijacked’ by extremists. We are at war with precisely the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran, and further elaborated in the ‘hadith’ which recounts the saying and actions of the Prophet. A future in which Islam and the West do not stand on the brink of mutual annihilation is a future in which most Muslims have learned to ignore most of their scriptures, just as Christians have learned to do with regards to the bloody parts of the Old Testament.”
HATRED IN THE KORAN
Being a “moderate” does require learning to ignore hateful verses in the Koran. If they were re-interpreted, or eliminated, that would remove all justification for Jihad or terrorism, but doing this would be difficult. The Koran demands of itself that it must always be taken literally, since it comes straight from Allah. And Jihad rests on verses in the Koran. An American-Muslim in Seattle, driven by the Koran, walks into a Jewish community center and shoots a woman dead and seriously wounds five other women. This has also happened in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Washington. It will happen increasingly as the crisis intensifies, in accordance with Osama bin Laden’s call to Jihad of February 23, 1998: “We, with God’s help, call upon every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans wherever they may be found.”
Following are a few examples of the scriptures that cause this kind of behavior, in nations, and in individuals. Most of these verses are found in the second half, or Median period, of the Koran. In a strange practice of Koranic interpretation, they “abrogate,” or nullify, according to most Middle East scholars, more gentle verses found in the first, or Meccan, half of the Koran, which moderates quote, but which do not count.
4.156 They denied the truth and uttered a monstrous falsehood against Mary. They declared, “We have put to death the Messiah Jesus, the son of Mary, the apostle of Allah.” They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but they thought they did. [Islam claims to be the only pure monotheism. The Trinity, they say, makes Christianity a polytheism, and therefore a religion of idolaters.]
9.5 Slay the idolaters wherever you find them...lie in ambush everywhere for them.
22.9 Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed with rods of iron.
47.4 When you meet the unbelievers in battle strike off their heads.
98.6 The unbelievers among the People of the Book, Christian and Jews, and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of Hell. They are the vilest of creatures.
5.60 God has cursed the Jews, transforming them into apes and swine and those who serve the devil.
5.33 Those who make war against Allah and his Apostle shall be put to death or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides.
2.216 Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you may dislike it.
8.12 I will instill terror into the hearts of the Infidels, strike off the heads then, and strike off from them every fingertip.
THE DANGER
Because we have been misled by media and campus as to who the enemy is, many are not fully aware of the true nature of the danger. Clark Kent Ervin is the former Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security and often an guest expert on CNN. In his new book, Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack, he wrote this in his summary:
“How clear and present is the danger of another terror attack on the homeland? The answer is that the danger of another attack is very clear and very present, indeed. There is nothing theoretical or futuristic about it. No, we don’t know when, where, or how, the next attack will come. But we do know that Osama bin Laden and his followers and imitators remain intent on terrorizing the homeland. He has laid out his objectives in unambiguous detail. The tactical means to achieve this goal is to inflict so much death, injury, and economic damage on us and our friends that we literally and figuratively quit the battlefield and give up the fight. Bin Laden himself has urged the American people to ‘Understand the lessons of the New York and Washington raids which came in response to some of your previous crimes...God is my witness, the youth of Islam are preparing things that will fill your hearts with terror.’
They are resolved to act on their wish to visit more destruction on the homeland, because in their minds, to kill Americans in the name of Islam is to earn Allah’s favor and to win an express ticket to be with him for eternity in Paradise. ‘Let me be a martyr in the service of jihad’ is the constant prayer on the lips of our enemies. This bloodlust for death further widens the odds against us in the war on terror at home and abroad. For us, life is an end in itself. For terrorists, death is an end in itself, and life is a means to that end. Therefore, we are far likelier to break under the weight of terror than they are to break under the weight of counter-terror.
I have shown how easy it remains for terrorists outside the country to sneak in. Some unknown number of foreign terrorists is already hiding here among us, and some unknown number of native-born Americans has defected to the terrorists’ side. Once on American soil, a virtual smorgasbord of targets remains open for terrorists to attack. Any attack on aviation would have a devastating impact on the national psyche. A nuclear weapon could easily be smuggled into any one of our seaports as well. It is easier still to attack mass transit systems, critical infrastructure, and soft targets. So we know the terrorist’ side of the ledger. They continue to have the intention, the resolve, and the capability to inflict grave harm on us.”
ELEMENTS OF A PLAN
All of this put together tells us that the Muslim world is dangerously different from the rest of the world, steeped in hatred and irrationality, rooted, in the final analysis, in the Koran. That is why the first thing to be done is to protect ourselves from their madness by issuing a warning now of catastrophic retaliation if they ever again turn this madness on us.
The truth is, most Americans are already living in dread that this might happen. A recent Gallup poll reported that, “Most Americans think terrorists are in this country and have the resources to launch a major attack.” The poll found that “four in five think terrorists are prepared to a launch a major attack anytime.” In other words, in the absence of any stated policy of deterrence the American people are just sitting here, waiting for disaster to strike. Therefore, it is imperative that the government give the American people some plan now to assure them that at least something is being done to protect them. The current situation is a strategic nightmare that is wearing the nation out with apprehension.
Terrorism is not just a matter of homeless people living in caves in Pakistan. Terrorists exist in almost all Muslim countries. Frum and Perle have it right, “While there are multiple terrorist groups, the common element of Islam makes the threat monolithic. The result is an unlimited threat to dominate the world through Jihad.” And, as strategist Bar wrote, “Insofar as religious establishments in most of the Arabian peninsula, in Iran, and in much of Egypt and North Africa are concerned, the radical ideology does not represent a marginal and extremist perversion of Islam, but rather a genuine and increasingly mainstream interpretation. Even after 9-11, the sermons broadcast from Mecca cannot be easily distinguished from those of al-Qaeda.”
There are huge terrorist enclaves, for example, in Syria, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and Indonesia. If they strike at us, retaliation must be instantaneous and catastrophic, many times the force directed at us. Enough to demoralize the entire Muslim world, and expose the protection of Allah as an illusion. Terrorists strike in the name of expanding Islam. If they are told beforehand that any attack by them will result in catastrophic retaliation, possibly destruction of , or a part of, any Muslim nation, possibly along with all major symbols of Islam such as Mecca and Medina, this would deny them their objective. Instead of expanding Islam, this would radically diminish its influence. Our response should stun the world.
Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily raised the true issue in Jan. 2005:
“What would be the U.S. response to a nuclear attack? Now is the time to think about the unthinkable. Contingency plans need to be made. And those plans need to be known to the whole world to serve as a deterrent against such an attack. We cannot afford to put off this discussion until it happens. It will be too late. We don’t need to be specific about which major cities and installations will be vaporized. But it needs to be clear that the response will be overwhelming. By having this national debate now and putting the world on notice, we can give the terrorists something to think about. Do they really want to see their cities vaporized? Do they really want to see their religious centers destroyed? Do they really want to see adherents to their ideology and their faith killed in massive numbers as a direct result of their actions?”
Following are the sentences in the new U.S. Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations - Joint Publications 3-12 that relate to the feasibility of a doctrine of deterrence:
“U.S. forces must pose a credible deterrent to potential adversaries who have access to modern military technology, including weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. If a potential adversary is convinced that U.S. forces can deny them their goals, by damage to their military, its support, or other things of value, and if that perception leads to the potential adversary to limit their actions, then deterrence is effective. Deterrence may be directed at states that support their efforts as well as the terrorist organization itself. However, the continuing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction along with the means to deliver them increases the probability that someday a state/nonstate actor-nation/terrorist may, through miscalculation or by deliberate choice, use those weapons. In such cases, deterrence even based on the threat of massive destruction, may fail and the United States must be prepared to use nuclear weapons if necessary.”
No modern nation can tolerate the threats that this nation has received from Islamics without attempting to deter through a warning of retaliation. This new nuclear doctrine makes a move in that direction possible. The goal of retaliation would be to demoralize the Muslim world into abandoning their dream of “jihad” by showing them their Allah cannot help them. And, the moderate Muslim world needs to know exactly what their more militant brothers is going to cost them, part of the effectiveness of this being the possibility that this more moderate part of Islam might exert pressure on the militants to alter their behavior. We saw some of this happening when some Muslim leaders recently criticized Hezbollah.
When we first began to wrestle with this problem of deterrence as a result of 9/11, the conventional wisdom was that one fanatical group of Muslims, al-Qaeda, had “hijacked” a “peaceful “ religion. Until the examples of Afghanistan and now Lebanon, it did not seem possible to issue a threat of deterrence as they did not seem allied with any nation to serve as the other end of a threat of mutually assured destruction. But as we continued to explore the idea in a series of nine articles up to today, it became increasingly clear that the root cause of the terrorism is the religion itself, Islam, with its doctrine of Jihad, and that terrorist groups could arise, and have, in any Muslim nation. Today we see any number of terrorist enclaves, such as Hezbollah, in Muslim lands, any of which can now be considered targets in a policy of mutually assured destruction in response to an attack on the United States.
[Our articles on deterrence may be seen at v-v-a-r.org, along with our educational series, Articles on Islam.]
THE PLAN
1) American bombers will take off every morning headed for unspecified Muslim nations, loaded with conventional and nuclear bombs. If nothing happens back in the U.S., they then turn around at a designated point and return home.
If there is a terrorist attack on America, it could range from a shopping mall to an entire city. The Pentagon will already have mapped out numerous equivalent targets in those Muslim nations that harbor terrorists and the bombers will rain destruction on a selected target which will be equivalent to ten times the destruction in the U.S. This rule of ten insures that the terrorist must know in advance that their attacks will be responded to with massive overkill.
2) The second part of the plan is for the free world to expose the truth about Islam.
That is, every day, using all forms of communication, TV, lectures, radio, documentaries, etc., show the verses of the Koran advocating violence, tell of the dark history of Islam, the oppression of women, and the current goals of Islamic jihad, that is, to dominate the world either by conversion or slaughter. The world cannot live with a religion that is founded on “violence and lust” (John Quincy Adams - 6th American president). And show Muslims there is another way to get to heaven besides murdering your fellow man.
The collateral damage will of course be terrible, something that goes against the moral canon of a democracy. In strategic thinking this is called “bad moral luck,” meaning, we are forced to make a choice we don’t wish to make. But in an existential crisis to a nation, when annihilation could be the alternative, there is no choice. We saw that in Hiroshima, and in the bombing raids over Dresden, Germany. The message therefore is, just don’t try it. This is a conditional plan, of the nature, “If you do that -we will be forced to do this.” Nothing actually need happen. If it does, they will be responsible for the destruction of their own people. We must use our power to end this threat to the world now, or live with it for decades to come during which time there will be successes by the terrorists. They will get through on occasion and destroy our cities one by one. After their first success, the loss of our first city to a nuclear device, there will be a terrible outcry for retaliation and millions could die in a spasm of unplanned nuclear response. Why not think this out and put a threat of retaliation in place now, in hopes of averting even that first attack?
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