JVLV.NET: THE TIME HAS COME FOR A NEW, ANTI-JIHADIST, TRUMP DOCTRINE, by Jiri and Leni Friedman Valenta

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If the Battle for Mosul is any indication, the overwhelming force now being used against ISIS will not be a knockout punch.  As in Aleppo, it may give the west only a Phyrrhic victory.

We can have all the firepower in the world, but they have several great advantages we lack. First they can easily infiltrate us, and chameleon-like, walk unrecognized among us, wreaking  havoc where they will. Meanwhile we cannot easily infiltrate them. We are fighting a new kind of war the old fashioned way and new tactics are needed. Secondly, they don’t mind dying to enter their mythical paradise of lusting virgins, whereas our will remains puzzled by what Shakespeare described as the threat of something after death; “the undiscovered country from whose borne, no traveler returns.”   

Initiating several attacks globally and almost simultaneously, they need no special weapons, uniforms or even training. They can use whatever is at hand -- knives, axes, a heavy car or truck. Consider the killing of the Russian ambassador in Turkey by a former Turkish security guard. Previously fired for participating in an anti Erdogan coup, he was actually filmed cutting down his victim with bullets. “Allah Akbar.” “Do not forget Aleppo,” he also shouted, the new battle cry, reflecting the Jihadist resentment towards the Russians for protecting Syria’s dictator, Bashar al Assad.

Yet, also notice the brutal killing of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, a NATO ally, was not just punishment but also also aimed at Donald Trump’s incipient Doctrine to hopefully forge anti-jidadist limited partnership with Russia. This is well suggested by subsequent terrorists opening fire near the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.  

Think about the use of a truck to kill at least a dozen innocent civilians in Berlin at a Christmas market, a repetition of what has happened earlier in Nice and most lately in Ohio. One of the  attackers was an asylum-seeker from Pakistan; another is still at large. The situation, in Germany, as described by our collaborator, Jake Neuman, is there are also many rapes of Christian women and acts of violence by the refugees that are not reported.

Mrs. Angela Merkel just revealed that one Berlin attacker was a refugee from Pakistan, but she’s the one who is responsible for taking a soft line towards the deluge of millions of refugees from countries engulfed in large-scale, Jihadist activities. Already the Muslim refugee deluge has weakened not just Merkel’s position as the leader of Germany, but the whole of Europe. Meanwhile, her inability to act as a powerful force to against the disintegration of the EU by the exits of other countries besides Great Britain, Italy and Spain, is also apparent. She has also lost any credibility to act as a deal-maker in resolving the Ukrainian crisis with Russia.

In the last week, other attacks have happened, one of them in the friendly, pro-western, Sunni nation of Jordan, where security officials were killed. A few days earlier something similar happened in Egypt. On the 19^th came the attack on the Islamist, terrorist-ridden, failed state of Yemen. 50 people died And three three were killed in a Zurich mosque in Switzerland.

Meanwhile, recognize the political rift in America during the transition of power from Obama to Trump has weakened our own country.  Well advertised by the American media, the many irresponsible comments, primarily by the defeagted Democrats., butg also some Republicans, has surely been noticed by our adversaries. 

The Jihadists are more than likely to take advantage of it by initiating further attacks on our homeland, and, as in Europe this is very likely during Christmas-Hanukkah.

In pursuance of our war on Islamic terrorism,. our leaders, present or retired, must avoid comments like our leaders, present or retired,have made, e.g. Bill Clinton's demeaning of Trump's vicgtory.  We al must follow the wise counsel of our strong Sunni allym Jordanian King abdudllah, on terrorism:    “National unity is the strongest weapon in the anti-terror fight.”

Americans must finally come to understand that this war is not like the last one-- WWII. You don’t need German subs or radio signals or ships bringing terrorists to our shores. They are already here, many home-grown and recruited by the modern social medias. Notice that ISIS’ undefeated leadership is even using the media to provide instructions on how to attack us; for example by trucks.

Undermining Trump’s legitimacy as president also plays into the hands of our adversaries by suggesting to them that a divided and spiritually crippled nation cannot defend itself or be fully engaged in our role as the last guarantor of the global world order and western civilization.

As long as the wars for the Middle East continues, the jihadists will be metastasizing. The West must thus be prepared for a decade-long struggle. The Jihadists cannot be defeated, as Trump thinks, by one large offensive. Many will also try to infiltrate our government and must be weeded out. Americans, who, like Merkel, generously want to admit even unvetted Muslim immigrants, must be made aware of the difference between normal Islam and Sharia law, the Nazi-like, religious ideology that drives the acts of violence we have witnessed.

There is no time to argue that the building of the wall with Mexico is essential,. Recognizing infiltration as an ordained  practice by the Jihadists -- and it is-- we must shut off the main ingress into our country through our southern border. President Trump must better explain this is not Islamophobia but common sense.

We must also recognize that the anti-Assad rebels we have been arming in Syria are not necessarily “ours.” Many are Jihadists. Thus, rather than courting war with Russia, who protects Assad, we must aim for a much more refined limited anti-Islamist  partnership with the Russians, working on mutual resolution of the Syrian mess.

We must also embark on creative deal-making with the Kremlin, aimed at ending Ukraine crisis distracting NATO from the real threat to our civilization, the double-headed Hydra of Islamo-fascism, be it Sunni or Shiite, and nukes-hungry mullahs in Tehran. With our new team of experienced team of generals we must develop new strategies to defeat our enemies and support our beleaguered allies, both Muslim Jordan and Jewish Israel.

As in WWII, the major command could be upgraded and transferred from Tampa to the Middle East, perhaps to Jordan and for our new “Ike,” we should consider General David Petraeus, who along with our new Secretary of Defense, “Mad Dog” James Mattis, have the most experience in this line of work. Finally DJT must very soon elucidate in much more more refined and nuanced way than via twitter,  his new anti-Islamo-fascist Doctrine as FDR did as we entered World War II.  

Dr. Jiri Valenta and Leni Friedman Valenta are princpals at the research institute of post-communist conflicts and terrorism. Their website is jvlv.net. This article appears at http://www.jvlv.net/terrorism-top-story.html.  Some of their views on building a Trump Doctrine have already been developed in their paper commissioned by the BESA Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University in Israel; “America and Russia; Towards a New Partnership?”