You eagerly gaze at the light of the mirror reflector that your candle provides over these new printing press words that you have meticulously underlined with a stroke of your quill pen that you have dipped into your desk inkwell. You ponder who next will read these inspiring words of pending action as you recline upon your new wooden oak and quite a strong chair. As you feel an evening chill in the air of your freshly chinked log home, you put yet another log on your glowing ember fire. You sit in secure comfort with your 58 caliber flintlock pistol lying primed on the desk within your reach alongside your evening warm tankard mug of buttered rum fresh from the keg. You read with strong, overwhelming American pride the resolve and intended actions of your President Thomas Jefferson. You relish in the finality of the military war solution he has selected with the Muslim Barbary States of North Africa to end their exploits of the raiding of American ocean vessels for confiscation, slaves, tribute (just), and their savage proceedings of disgusting mutilation, maiming, and amoral celebrations.
In 1786 (three years before the founding of the U.S. State Department), then Ambassador Thomas Jefferson met with Tripoli’s envoy of the Barbary Pirates, Sidi Haji Abraham. Whereupon he enquired concerning their justification of war upon nations who had done them no injury, Sidi Haji Abdrahaman replied “It is written in the Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet and laws of Islam were sinners, and it was the right and duty of Muslims to enslave, kill, and plunder and that every Muslim who died in service to this obedience to Islam was sure to go to paradise”. And so in the passing of many bravely fought years on sea and sand so very long ago against the Muslim theocracy of the Barbary Pirates, came a military end to “this era” of naval history 1801-1816, as we fought back to achieve a conclusion by combat in a lesson to be learned by the “vanquished and victorious”, to be held in proud remembrance for future reminder internationally by all nations.
From the seventh century to the present, the crux of all Muslim diplomacy and negotiation has been inspired by al-Hudaybiya (the historical peace treaty of 628) and manipulated by Taqiyya (the Koran 9:54 deception).
To make a long and greatly contested story short, al-Hudaybiya was a treaty between “Muhammad of Medina” and “Tribe Quraysh Mecca.” After the Medina forces covertly grew to superior force, they alleged a breach of their “charade agreement treaty terms” with “Tribe Quraysh Mecca” and instituted a massive malicious attack. This covert treachery has served as a model of betrayal and deceit for the amoral methodologies of hundreds of attacks over centuries. Woven into this blood-stained fabric of deception is the Koran encouraged 9:54 practice of “Taqiyya”, or lying to the infidel, combined with “Hud na” (stalling for tactical time).
And yet, refusing to acknowledge and learn from all this history before us, governments stagger onward, negotiating on the same path repeatedly, idealistically expecting a special outcome each and every time and receiving, again and again, the same blood and betrayal results. When the diplomatic side talks, it is not sacrosanct that the opposing side is relegated to adhere to similar dialogue or structures of conduct. After over 1400 years, many Muslim empires have never exhibited or desired to be relegated to any agreements or limitations of behaviors, including in the modern era. Their Islamic sense of self feeds ravenously on their inspiring lessons of betrayal of al-Hudaybiya and the deceitful methodologies of Taqiyyah and Hudna.
In World War One, after the men and women of the world had bled and died wearing their nations’ uniforms, they eventually vanquished their enemy. It then came time for the strutting diplomats of France, Britain, America, and Italy to courageously and perilously climb the stairs of the Versailles Palace to secure their final diatribes and ravings in print. At least once a day we should all reflect upon the quote
“A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.” Plato.
It was at the cherished conclusion of the diplomat’s four-ring circus that the terms were set forth to “end all wars,” and all the representatives were appropriately inflated with hypocrisy at the accomplishment that “obviously” no one else could have ever made after over “only” six months. I remember reading first and foremost the brief and fateful words of an old bitter war weary Marshal Foch, Supreme Allied Commander, who stated that “all they have achieved is a twenty year armistice”.
It was to be twenty years to the month that the conquering heroes stood on the balcony of the Palace of Versailles congratulating themselves. Sad that the old charging Foch would die and not see his words become a stark reality with the onset of what some I call World War One “Part Two.” This had now become yet another diplomatic failure, bringing forth yet another opportunity, for an endless future of further yet unceasing diplomatic failures.
Conflict conciliation and pacification through negotiation are feeble pursuits of a resolution seeking an impossible equilibrium of opposing positions. Eventually, they will become conflicts based on the resulting continuing and compounding predictable instability of the “when of war” and never the “if of war.”
It is truly historically tragic that the revealing hate-filled chapter of the meetings and alliances between Haj Amin al-Husseini, Palestinian Nationalist Muslim leader, and Adolf Hitler have failed to be noted and referenced in our indoctrination-distorted educational institutions. Their particular mutual abhorrent “hatred of Jews” relationship, inclusive of the Third Reich adaptation of the Muslim symbols of the yellow star and “other” inhuman methodologies of isolation and persecution, shared the same fertile ground in the blood-soaked earth of their empires of hate. Muslim rulers in the 8th century CE were the first to introduce the “badge” to identify Jews and Christians within the Muslim population, as was imitated by the Nazi regime’s later variations. Jews living under “Sharia Law” were considered “People of the Book (Koran),” and paid a tax to live called jizya (tribute), and were then subsequently compelled by death and torture to wear identifying marks and symbols to indicate this status. The design and style of badges or symbols for Jews varied. Under Caliph Haroun al-Rashid (807 CE), Jews in Baghdad had to wear yellow belts or stars, while under Caliph al-Mutawakkil (847-61), Jews wore a patch in the shape of a donkey, while Christians wore a figure in the shape of swine. They were meant to reinforce the dhimmi (low class) of Jews and Christians while at the same time publicly branding them as socially inferior to Muslims.
In the heartfelt and tragic Beirut, Lebanon bombing of 1983 our nation lost 241 Marines, the second greatest loss since Iwo Jima. In the fateful words of the perimeter guard Marines at the blast site, they could not fire fast enough in time to stop the bomber due to the atrocious bureaucratic in-country weapon policy of “bolt closed, safety on, chamber clear” and only under securing command permission could weapon measures be taken. This policy (still in effect today) was in effect to avert any “feared” overreactions that may cause a “troubling” incident that may encumber any negotiations. In the modern post-WW1 Part 11 era, we passively allowed the greatest fighting force for freedom to be compromised by any diplomat, politician, and elected official who thought they knew how to fight a conflict without having “any” practical experience or knowledge. With only the insane notion that they could feed the rabid Islamic indoctrinated “captagon” (amphetamine) addicted dogs of Muslim terrorism, so that the world could pet them. Diplomats forever seek the improbable unknown, while an unencumbered military stands ready to resolve conflicts with tactical deliberate finality.
Now, after learning nothing from past wars, conflicts, and tragic events, we are subjected to being eyewitnesses to the long and criminal resurgence of this fourteen-hundred-year-old metastasized international criminal Islamic cancer. The nations of our present-day world splash about and flounder in an ocean of misjudgment and wretchedly appalling passive decisions in their response to the current criminal Barbary Pirates of sea and sand of today. We continue to sail in blood stained waters and walk upon blood stained sand, as we insanely squander financial tribute in the naive hope of harmony, to the craven uncontested Iran funded attacks of the Yemen Houthi, Somali, Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other sea and sand thug criminal aggressors. The inconceivable treasonous monetary funding under the guise of diplomacy is arrogantly received in “their” Islamic view as a tribute of surrender, or “Jista” (Koran 9:29). This just funding is blindly paid by enabling and severely gullible and susceptible governments under the pretext of humanitarian aid. Knowing full well that any and all tribute is immediately diverted from “aid to attack” and into the blood-stained hands of our eternal adversaries, who continue to relish in our incessant flow of tribute and support to the very amoral criminals that are thus relentlessly encouraged.
With our own State Department being de-facto adversarial to our national interests, these political terrorist enablers nourish the barbaric blood, blood-lusting egos of our enemy’s mindless Islamic theocracy through their financial support and displays of passive weakness. In the face of challenges well within our military abilities, our state department groveling and funding serves only to instill Islamic terrorists with inspired confidence and continuing unyielding obedience to their century’s old earliest pursuits of “Slavery” (Koran 33:50), “Kill Non-Muslims” (Koran 4:89 8:12) “Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran” (Koran 8:12). These quotes from the Koran have led the indoctrinated (present-day captagon addicted) slaves to Islam for over 1400 years to commit atrocities beyond any and all lucid thought, and will not be abated by the social-political dialogue of state department “suits” who relish in facilitating their enduring historical reputation of ignorant passivism, appeasement and hence ineffectiveness while illuminating their own image in the continuing fires of their own failures on the world stage.
Negotiation is one-third compromise and one-third concession, with the remaining third being the surrender of that which you do not consider worth the fight. How much you surrender in negotiation determines how much value you place on something someone else needs to survive. I have greater faith in the sight of a vanquished enemy on the battlefield than in a grin and feeble handshake of betrayal across a table of illusory concession through compromise.
Our 46th President’s inadequacies and peculiarities provide for the ruination of our faltering nation, along with his internationally deluded and conciliation-focused Secretary of State. The world outside our broken borders suffers in the intensifying and unresolved numerous and ever-emergent conflicts stemming from the suppression of deployment of our brave and able military. Were we to provide a definitive and final strategic resolution to a world in crisis by the strength of our military resolve, we would be setting tactical military examples that would be a learning paradigm for our enemies now, and forever in historical hindsight. However, this outcome shall never come to fruition by this president, who is held in international ridicule with his stumbling and faltering policies being celebrated by our enemies with their every merciless attack. In contrast, scorning ridicule is showered upon our apprehensive and feeble diplomatic negotiations that go on ad infinitum.
“The first casualty of war is the truth” Aeschylus. Moreover, the first casualty of negotiation is lost in the search for continual appeasement and compromise.
Throughout history, the parley, conferences for the mutual finding of common dialogue, or other useless gatherings have never unburned ships or brought them back to the surface from the deep with crews to live once again. Nor should any and all military action be taken lightly, but lesser ineffective action serves only to build false courage and prolonged ignorant resolve in the unimpressed minds of degenerate, criminal adversaries, be they on sea or sand. Since the oath-ordained inception of the self-enamored “world-saving” State Department in 1789, these cherubs of indulgence and understanding have taken flight to all the crisis points of the earth, rendering them hopelessly in a diplomatic quagmire. Nothing bar anything has ever been resolved by those who have tolerated their interference as a royal endowment to the world’s tribulations. They boldly stagger onward obedient and subservient to dialoging more and more about less and less until they have resolved everything about nothing, only to leave the unhealed political scabs exposed to being torn off and the forgotten wounds to bleed once again. Never have they ever bound the bleeding gash of conflict with their diatribes.
In circa 2007, when Hamas assumed full political control of Gaza, which some would refer to as the long sought after second state solution, the people of Gaza, being subjected to an election of “Hamas only”, voted thusly and for their last time. The designated European Union voting observers, casting their ethics onto the sand, fled in fear through the (Egypt-Gaza) Rafah Border crossing, surrendering all responsibilities and authoritative control. Gaza was now a de-facto terrorist state with all within borders under the control of an iron Islamic theocracy.
Tragically, once again, as in the past blood-stained pages of history, on October 7, the aware and grieving have endured heart and mind being plunged into the depravity of Islamic barbarity and amoral savagery yet again. The soulless in human form had once again inflicted their evil upon the defenseless victims they found before them in Israel. Casting aside empirical pragmatic data, raw common sense, and any hint of shrewdness, the Department of State has sought to intercede against Israel’s “necessary and justifiable” policy of “victory over evil” with their own zealous social/political submissive terms of passiveness and conciliation. In pursuing their own perverse form of Détente, they seek once again to illuminate their own reflection of self-importance on the world stage, in the light of the fires of unresolved conflicts they have never brought to fruition. They have become once again the tactical facilitator to Iran’s Hamas under the guise of humanitarian aid and faux victim intercession. They have become the obstructionist to a world in crisis that unleashed military resolve could set forth a tactical military example that would be the final learning paradigm.
The U.S. State Department’s incessant “self-illuminating” negotiations can pull the nail of victory from the wood of conflict, but the hole of diplomatic failure will always remain to be seen by those seeking to resolve terrorism by emulating the historic finality of military force that history has taught us from the past courage of our brothers and sisters in the uniform of the nations of the world.
- Dr. Robert R. Rail, a retired American Police Officer, University Instructor, and published author is recognized internationally as one of the foremost experts on terrorism recognition. As a war zone trainer for the International Police Task Force IPTF in Bosnia, Kosovo, and the US State Department, and DOJ in Iraq, Dr. Rail was responsible for designing curriculum and instructing elite police officers from 63 nations who have been deployed to various war zones of the world. He was also named as a physical confrontation advisor and resource training provider to select personnel of NATO and OSCE. Dr. Rail was a resident instructor at the Specialized Advanced Training Unit of the High Institute of the Baghdad Police College in Iraq. Comments and questions are welcome at kosovorrr@yahoo.com, https://www.crcpress.com/Surviving-the-International-War-Zone-Security-Lessons-Learned-and-Stories/Rail/p/book/9781138374348