Britain's New CIC: "Militant Islam And Al-Qaeda Cannot Be Beaten"

The new head of Britain's armed forces, General Sir David Richards, went public today saying that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam.

This is the man newly in charge of all of Britain's armed forces!

According to the report, he believes "militant Islam" can't be defeated but can be "contained" by hearts and minds and by "education and democracy".

Apparently no one ever told him that the leaders of what he calls "militant Islam" have been mostly well-educated,and from the middle and upper classes. Not to mention the attacks, successful and unsuccessful that have originated from home grown jihadis in both the UK and America with all the benefits of education and democracy.

If nothing else, to hear the Commander-in-chief mouth such a disgraceful sentiment must have done wonders for Britain's troops serving in Afghanistan..and for their enemies. I'm reminded of General Stonewall Jackson's advice to one of his battalion commanders at Bull Run who ran up to the General and told him that the battle was lost - "If you think so sir, you had better keep it to yourself."

Of course, in the end, it's all about the money. The Cameron Government appointed this man head of Britain's armed forces for two reasons; first of all because he was a loyal Conservative Party horse and second because he can be depended on to implement further cuts in Britain's already anemic defense budget.

The first casualty of the UK's recently completed Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) was the scrapping of the HMS Ark Royal and its 80-strong Harrier force, something Britain's Royal Navy chiefs tried desperately to fend off to no avail. It will not be the last such 'economy measure'.

General Sir David Richards either does not have the least clue about what he's actually fighting against or he's simply being politically correct...perhaps both.

What he's actually at war with is an ideology, an ideology that is funded, nurtured and supported within a relatively small group of Muslim nations. Until we confront those nations, diplomatically or otherwise, the war of attrition - for that is what it is, an attack on our lands and our freedom, bit by bit - will go on.

Or to put it another way, a great deal more Islamist terrorism has originated out of Pakistan, Iran and a number of Saudi funded mosques and madrassahs than ever originated out of Iraq or Afghanistan.

Various politicians and even a few tame military/security figures would have us believe that this is a different kind of war, something new and unique. It really isn't.

The Nazis and the Japanese fascists had the same fanatic dedication to their ideology as the Islamists do today. They had their propaganda arms, their saboteurs, their apologists, their bought politicians, and their appeasement minded sympathizers in the West well before WWII broke out and all funded from their home countries and their sympathizers abroad. They had political 'fraternal' organizations and pressure groups like Mosley's fascists and the German-American Bund as well.

Then as now, the politicians of the West ignored what was in plain sight and allowed things to regress to the point where a bloody, horrific and unnecessary war resulted that the West could very well have lost. One chief difference is that in our own time, our enemies are just as evil and insidious, but militarily weaker than the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese. So they have been willing to devote more time, effort and money to increasing the rot from within.

These are the enemies General Sir David Richards refuses to acknowledge or fight.

As Stonewall Jackson told that long-ago colonel, if this is what he thinks, he should keep it to himself.

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