Loading ...Yesterday I watched a DVD entitled “Brothers at War“. I know the “Hurt Locker” gained all of the critical acclaim from the Hollywood crowd, but I watched it the day before and I can tell you that “Brothers” was a much better effort.
Although a great movie which I would recommend that everyone rent and watch, that is not the reason for this post. My sister watched the movie with me and in one segment where a U.S. Marine is talking to his Iraqi counter-parts about their enemies, I started screaming, “Do you hear what they are calling them?” To my amazement, they referred to the insurgents and terrorists as the “Wahhabi’s“. I started to wonder how it is that our troops and the Iraqi’s know who our enemy is, but the vast majority of Americans do not.
First, bear in mind that not all Muslim’s subscribe to the Wahhabi and Muslim Brotherhood ideals. It is impossible to say just how many do. I’m finding that many who claim that Islam is the “Religion of Peace”, secretly subscribe to the teachings of the Wahhabi’s. I’ve posted in recent days that the Wahhabi’s own the major Islamic centers here in Memphis. I’ve posted how an individual who is an American convert and teaches Islam to Americans locally and on the internet. That same individual attended the same mosque, owned by the Wahhabi’s, as did Carlos Bledsoe, the American Muslim who shot two soldiers at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas last year. The same individual posted anti-American and anti-Israel artwork and links to a video by the Wahhabi cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki (linked to the 9/11 hijackers and Fort Hood shooter).
All of this is relevant since Al Qaeda seems to have had a change in strategy.
For the first time, the group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and has prided itself on its ideological purism seems to be eyeing a more pragmatic and arguably more dangerous shift in tactics. The emerging message appears to be: Big successes are great, but sometimes simply trying can be just as good.
U.S. officials and counterterrorism experts say the airline attack and last November’s shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, prove that simple, well-played smaller attacks against the United States can be just as devastating to the democratic giant as complex and riskier ones.
We have forgotten that we are at war and I agree with some aspects of Congressman Kennedy’s remarks.
“You want to know why the American public is fit? They’re fit because they’re not seeing their Congress do the work that they’re sent to do. It’s because the press — the press of the United States is not covering the most significant issue of national important and that’s the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. It’s despicable, the national press corps right now.” – FOX
In 2009, we lost over twice as many of our sons and daughters in Afghanistan (316) than we did in Iraq (149). In 2010 we have lost 71 in Afghanistan compared to 12 in Iraq (source: iCasualties.org). He is right, the media simply is not covering the story very well at all, and that is a real disservice to those fighting and dying on our behalf. Also, just as unfortunate, it seems the only way Al Qaeda can get our attention these days is to start hitting us here at home any way that they can.
