SYRIAN MADNESS: FALSE FLAGS AND AMERICA'S UNJUST INTERVENTION(S)

What the hell is going on in Washington? 

Sure it is a daily cringe worthy soap opera which tarnishes America's global image. Being a laughing stock for exposing all our dirty laundry on an hourly basis via MSM, online, individual tweets etc. is one thing; but recent events --sabre rattling against Russia and Syria without careful thought-- suggests nothing has changed since the Bush II era. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt (which the Egyptian people managed to save via a peoples' revolution in 2013) and Syria. All epic disasters, playing right into the hands of our enemies (and they are quite a few, state and non-state, to include so-called "allies"). Bleeding us. Weakening us.

Exactly what Osama Bin Laden sought to do with the 9/11 attack.

Get us to overreact and get American troops mired in a quagmire(s) in the Muslim world in order to leverage for Al Qaeda and their paymasters agendas. Not to mention getting to fight other peoples' fights that we should prudently avoid if the stakes do not involve our specific American interests. 

It is always easy for politicians to send others sons and daughters into harm's way.  All this talk about honoring our military. 

Which brings me to the question: Who Gains? 

Certainly not the American people. 

Eisenhower's prescient warning during his farewell address rings true over half a century later: we should avoid foreign misadventures and rein in our military industrial complex. The only war America has fought since WW II that can be argued to have been worth the pursuit was the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. And, even that is stretching it a bit. 

This is not a pacifist stance by any means. On the contrary, American foreign --defense-- policy should be based on pragmatic realism driven primarily by one question: how does a specific foreign (or domestic) action benefit the interests of these United States?    

On Syria, sober thought would begin with a critical analysis involving the larger, historical, context which constitutes the Syrian crisis and the greater Middle East crises. Irresponsible saber rattling and sound bites can escalate, and the end results could do great harm to these United States and bolster the interests of our enemies.

Foreign intervention(s) that are antithetical to American interests must make our Founding Fathers turn in their respective graves. 

Without going into specifics, just a quick assessment would suggest caution. The Assad regime has nothing to gain by killing a few civilians with so-called chemical agents. It would be a propaganda nightmare for a  beseiged, friendless pariah regime. A public relations nightmare at a time when the Syrian government is winning. Da'ish/ISIS is on the run. 

Given our reaction to the last "chemical" attack --at Khan Shaykhun on 4 April 2017, just a week after the Trump administration announced it no longer sought regime change in Syria-- a replay seems to be a central component of a desperate entity (Da'ish/ISIS): a Da'ish false flag operation that leads the kuffar ('infidels') to do their (and their state paymasters) bidding: ouster of Bashar Assad and his government. Note this attack almost one year later at Douma (7 April 2018) came days after Trump announced on 3 April 2018 that America would pull out US troops from Syria. The pattern is quite clear. And, a preliminary investigation would exonerate the Assad government since these announcements bolster Assad's rule, not threaten it. 

Who is behind this ill advised Washington sabre rattling?  That is another question which needs to be raised. 

It is foreign interests, not American ones, who seek to compel us to use our blood and treasure in order to attain their own interests. These entities do not seem to realize how precipitous this approach is. Those flippant (or blindly optimistic) about Syrian regime change, have not thought through the long term fall out for the entire Levant and beyond. A completely destabilized Syria (not that it is all that stable today thanks to us) would encourage the flood of refugees, the extermination of what's left of the Christian population (protected by the Assad government) of the Middle East, and the proliferation of Islamist terrorists. 

President Trump ran on a platform that advocated getting America out of foreign misadventures that have cost us far too many lives and limbs (not to mention treasure). Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen were/are all "wars" that never rose to a WW II type of threat to our national security. If Trump continues Obama's policies, his base won't stand for it at election time. 

If we really are serious about national security i.e. protecting our homeland from another 9/11, we need to get serious about internal measures starting with our visa system, entry mechanisms, and securing our border ASAP. That would be a prudent realistic endeavor to address our national security challenge as it pertains to the post 9/11 environment. 

Trying to piss off the Russians and China simultaneously is sheer madness. Better yet, get inventive vis-a-vis dealing with these two entities. Making post-communist Russia an enemy vice an ally against the global forces that favor the type of authoritarianism inherent in communism is fools folly. This is the post-Cold War era. Russia is not the Soviet Union. NATO is a stumbling block to better relations with Russia which frankly should have eventually been abolished after the Warsaw Pact was dissolved in 1991. But that is a discussion left for another day.

Kudos to Tucker Carlson for daring to think and ask some pertinent questions on Syria:

SEDITION IN OUR REPUBLIC

THE NUNES MEMO: 

TIP OF THE ICE BERG

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/02/02/nunes-memo-exposes-abuse-power/1088772001/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5346375/Memo-reveals-Fusion-GPS-employed-wife-DOJ-official.html

What has transpired is not a partisan issue as being readily depicted in MSM. Rather, these, and other, events raise serious concerns about the current health of our Republic.  

KEY POINTS:

1) The United States "watchers" (NSA, FBI, CIA etc) have become politicized. 

2) This latest "co-option" attempt didn't begin in 2015 but has been a slow and steady progression which goes as far back to President Bill Clinton's first administration. It accelerated right after 9/11 (Patriot Act) and gained traction during Obama's administration.

3) Arguments/false concerns over "sources and methods" being revealed by unclassifying this memo by FBI et al ring hollow as exemplified by the contents of said memo.  Nothing and NO ONE has been sacrificed/compromised by the release of what exactly transpired under the guise of "national security." 

4) Redacting the names of those who engaged in seditious behavior and have thus violated their oath to the US Constitution, would have only served to embolden, and ensure, the continuation of a disturbing pattern of sedition which can best be described as a coup d'etat in slow motion against a duly elected President in a Constitutional Republic. The implications of what has been unfolding are truly frightening and not inconsequential for the long term survival of this Republic. 

5) The very institution, the FBI, that is the lead LAW ENFORCEMENT agency has been compromised in that some of its employees have put selfish interest above their oath to serve honorably, and to follow the letter of the law. Not all of course by any measure but they will bear the brunt of the tarnishment. The FACT that NO ONE resigned in protest, or deemed it essential for the survival of this Republic to come forward and put country above self, speaks to how rotten the core has become. And it is a very large core.

6) When the senior "law enforcers" embark on a mission to ensure that the most corrupt and coopted candidate  is elected, you know you've a very serious embedded structural problem in your Federal Government. When the very laws they are authorized to enforce are violated, what recourse do the citizenry have?

7) The entire "Russian collusion" narrative that is fueling the so-called Mueller investigation of President Trump has been like a smelly red herring. As they say: Follow the money.

8) It was never the Russians intervening in our election or surveilling a Presidential candidate's campaign headquarters. IT WAS OUR OWN "WATCHERS." The ones who have the power to spy on each and every one of us (which they certainly do with no compunction under the so-called "Patriot Act") in various ways. And, set the IRS on us when we dare to write about Benghazi on blogs or disclose our sensitive non-attribution briefs provided in a military college  setting to Wired Magazine without permission in order to place a bull's eye on our foreheads, and to silence and intimidate us. 

 9) To reiterate, there was never any "Russian collusion" by the Trump Campaign. But there certainly was a British based one with the Clinton Campaign. The same mandarins in Washington were working with Christopher Steele, a MI-6 operative, and judging from the Steele fiasco and his pathetic "dossier" the question should be asked: Who is Christopher Steele? Any investigation must scrutinize this man to the extent that it leads them to those in the shadows here and abroad. 

10) Congress will need to have the backbone to move towards exposing all to the American People. The people have this right. They also have the right to demand severe accountability and a massive overhaul of our "intelligence" infrastructure which has been compromised to such a degree by certain special interests (oligarhs of various backgrounds) at the expense of the larger good i.e. the people's interests. How we go about this is going to be like walking through an active minefield with snowshoes on. 

I'm terrified of the implications. Have been for some time. You should be too. 

P.S: The fact that the FBI found no wrongdoing when it was accidently uncovered that our former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a personal server for all her official State Department email, not to mention the numerous violations of her and her staff vis-a-vis handling (and unauthorized destruction) of CLASSIFIED materiel was one of many clues that Washington has been corrupted and there are one set of laws for the oligarchs and another for the minions. Truth is truly stranger than fiction.

P.P.S: Representative Devin Nunes is a very brave and honorable man. Support for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is deeply entrenched in Congress. FISA was introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy in 1978, and was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter. However, recent events underscore a need to revisit the constitutionality (and utility) of the secretive (and unaccountable) FISA Court. Critics, like Judge Napolitano, argue that such a secret court is unconstitutional. See his arguments against the FISA Court:



https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/09/13/is-the-fisa-court-constitutional

NOTE: A German movie, with English sub-titles, called "The Lives of Others," hauntingly encapsulates life in a Police State, namely the German Democratic Republic in this case. There are many current, and former, "Republics" across the globe that are police states such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), People's Republic of China, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea etc. Not all "Republics" are created equal and the slow, or rapid, descent into life in a Police State is a real possibility without constant oversight and vigilance with a particular focus on "the watchers" both in the public and the private sectors. The link to this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/

MEMORIAL DAY

Memorial day is about remembrance of those in uniform who sacrificed their lives so that we may live free of tyranny. 

Every year it is one of many sobering reminders of how freedom is never free, and there is always the lurking peril concocted by evil to usurp power and leave us in servitude. 

Always be vigilant, and defiant, of those --irrespective of ideology-- who, in clever guises, seek totalitarian control in the name of the "greater good."   This threat is lately disguised within such noble sounding "isms" -- "globalism/liberalism/multiculturalism"-- that forfeit individual identity (as in a nation/people who share a common heritage/language). This endeavor is complemented with the need to make us forget the lessons of history to ensure complacency, denial and betrayal. 

With continued appeasement, and the longer the head remains in the sand, the greater will be the human and economic costs. What is tragic is how human beings fail to learn from the past. A past in which so many made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and way of life.

Breaking from family tradition, we will head out to the Quantico National Cemetery later in the week as one of our boys is sick. Perhaps, on reflection, this delay isn't unfortunate. To pay our respects, as a family, to the fallen when the crowds have departed, and the bands, and the bugles are once again silent. 

HAPPY 241ST BIRTHDAY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS!

Since November 10th, 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized two battalions of the Continental Marines to be formed, American Marines have honorably served from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli and beyond "to fight for right and freedom and to keep [their] honor clean." Samuel Nicholas ("the fighting Quaker"), the first Marine (and Commandant) would be proud of the Marines who've served honorably during the last 241 years in every clime and place. May God bless the Marine Corps, and may God bless these United States in the years ahead. 

Proud of our son, Armstead Liebl, who continues what is now a family tradition of USMC service.

Ray Edward Liebl, circa 1959 (age 22)

(1937-1992)

Served in USMC (1954-1976); Last MOS 2549

Vietnam War ( 1968-1969 (Purple Heart)

Vernie Roy Liebl, circa 1980 (age 22) 
USMC (1980-2006); Last MOS 0202

(Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom)

Armstead Brandon Burki Liebl, circa 2016 (age 19)

MOS 0351 (Assaultman)

For Armstead The Journey Has Begun

Today, our son Armstead Brandon Burki Liebl left with other poolees for Parris Island USMC boot camp for recruit training to become a US Marine. How apropos a date for him to leave...the fight is a generational one over ideology, identity and way of life.

IF

By Rudyard Kipling

(1865-1936)

If you can keep your head when all about you
 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
  And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
  And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

A Man is He Who is Resolute

By Khushal Khan Khattak

(1613-1689)

A man is he who is resolute
And who will share his blessings,
Who's gentle with his fellow men.

In all he does in life;
His face, his face-- his word, his word.
His promise always kept.

Who never lies, never deceives,
Never succumbs to greed;
Whose words are few, many his deeds,
All silently performed.

Who's like a rosebud, smiling mouthed,
His breast open to see;
When there is talk of lowliness
Or else stateliness.

Who's like the heavens in his grandeur,
Or humble as the dust.

In dignity like to the cypress,
But in bounteousness
Like to the vine, its branches laden,
Spread in all directions.

His face bright as a new blown rose
That makes the garden fair,
While all around the nightingales
Pour out their joyous song.

TABLIGHI JAMA'AT: Proselytizing Missionaries or Trojan Horse?

Given that the recent terrorist attack/massacre in San Bernardino by Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik has Tablighi Jama'at linkages, I'm posting my Tablighi Jama'at article (published in 2012) to warn others on the danger this highly secretive movement poses to us here in the United States after it has already suborned Pakistan and is working on Bangladesh and, to a lesser degree, India (which is overwhelmingly Hindu)

Syed Farook, like John Walker Lindh (captured in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban), attended a Deobandi mosque (the Deobandi movement is the South Asia equivalent of the Wahhabi movement and has Saudi ties). Some reports are claiming Syed Farook belonged to the Tablighi Jama'at and his wife, Tashfeen, belonged to the Jama'at-i-Islami. For someone raised in Pakistan, these two facts alone would raise some alarm bells.

Here is the article.

Journal of Applied Security Research, 8:98–117, 
(online December 19th, 2012


The Tablighi Jama’at: Proselytizing
Missionaries or Trojan Horse?
SHIREEN KHAN BURKI
Independent Scholar

Tablighi Jama’at, a transnational Deobandi (Sunni) Muslim proselytizing group with branches in over 150 countries today, has
garnered attention in the West since 2001. With increasing frequency, terrorist plots in the West reveal Jama’at linkages. Although its leadership enunciates a peaceful, apolitical stance; the organization does share the same core ideology and ultimate objectives (the expansion of Dar al Islam and the establishment of a global Caliphate) as the Salafis, Wahhabis and other “revivalist” Islamist movements such as the Ikhwan al Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood).

The only difference between the Jama’at and the Ikhwan, for example, is their respective modus operandi. Although the Tablighi
Jama’at stress proselytism as their sole objective, they have also provided cover, a conduit and a fertile recruiting ground for jihadi
organizations such as Al Qaeda and Lashkar-i-Taiba.

KEYWORDS Tablighi Jama’at, Islamic activism, Al Qaeda, Deobandi, Taliban, terrorism, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi,Jihad bil Saif, Muslim Brotherhood, Jaish-i-Muhammad, Jihad




Tablighi Jama’at (“Proselytizing Group”)—hereafter “TJ” or Tablighi—is the largest Islamic (Sunni) Deobandi missionary and revivalist movement in the world today (Zaman, 2007). However, many non-Muslims have never heard of them notwithstanding their presence in the West, beginning in the 1960s. The TJ have attracted controversy due to exposed linkages of some of its members with terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-i-Taiba,
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Jaish-i-Muhammad, and Sipah-i-Sahaba. Given the secret nature and amorphous structure of this group, it has been hard to gauge the actual intent of these proselytizing missionaries. The growing linkages between exposed terrorists and the TJ, however, does raise questions which require a careful scrutiny of this organization, rather than a tendency (in certain academic circles) to take them at face value, and to accept their pro forma statements which condemn violence in the name of Islam. This 
article will scrutinize the TJ and its modus operandi to glean whether or not it is an incubator for “jihadis” in the West and/or has the potential for metamorphosis into a more lethal and violent organization.

THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: WHEN HUBRIS MEETS REALITY

We are at war. This is the new phase with innovative strategies, unholy alliances and unconventional tactics. It will get much worse. This is guaranteed. We are too late. Our leaders have ignored signs. Worse, they have been complicit on so many levels. They have, in fact, contributed/created Da'ish through the overthrow of regimes in the MENA (Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Egypt) and have worked feverishly, and illegally, to furnish an assortment of military hardware through Libya to Syrian rebels to overthrow the secular Assad regime. Washington supports regimes that covertly support Al Qaeda, Hizballah and the Muslim Brotherhood (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iran). 



Parisians, on Friday the thirteenth (of November), were terrorized by eight young European born Arab Muslims, including two recent arrivals (Syrian "refugees"). The target of these Muslim youth: Western youth. 

Over a hundred --mostly young-- people were slaughtered as they enjoyed the start of the weekend. In cafes, bars, a soccer game and a concert, they were mowed down. None were armed and none tried to tackle their murderers. Like sheep, they were butchered. None resisted. Their false sense of security, notwithstanding recent foreboding events, placed their lives in peril. 

There has been so much slaughter since 9/11 globally in the name of Islam, and it has generally been business as usual. Carry on. Don't be a "racist" or an "Islamophobe" is you dare to express concerns about a certain group of people. 


DA'ISH (aka the Islamic State/ ISIL/ISIS) is Al Qaeda on speed. The objective is shared. The objective is one that all devout Muslims believe in: spreading the 'true faith' of Islam (submission) across the Globe until there is no fitna (strife) and no kuffar (infidels or disbelievers).