A Lesson in Enemy Tactics

I took a rare visit to a MSN group today. I have had a long association with a group known as The Conservative Village. The irony is the group started to slowly attract Leftie Moonbats that posted more often than the Conservative fellows that were supposed to be attracted there. I started revisiting the group recently and found that many also had stopped visiting. The group is slowly beginning to re-attract Conservatives back; however the posts are not as frequent (yet) as in the good old days.

I know many of you could care less about an MSN group history. But here is the thing, sometimes a brilliant piece of writing comes along. This is one of those cases.

Poster WoodyUF wrote “A Lesson in Enemy Tactics.” I am giving credit to The Conservative Village for that is where I first found the concise essay. I found out that WoodyUF has a blog in which he also posted this marvelous essay in which all should think about visiting. The Blog’s name is a variant of The Conservative Village moniker, it is called Woody58. If you like the essay, I encourage you to visit Woody58.

If you wish to read earlier posts on Iran and the British Marines you can start HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

JRH
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A Lesson In Enemy Tactics

Woody
April 6, 2007
Woody58 Blog



I’ll begin with the saga of the British sailors’ capture by Iran and the events subsequent, but make no mistake; this tactic and the disease it engenders goes much deeper than we care to realize. It is a standard tool of the left and its all too willing media accomplices here in America, and it threatens our very existence. I know, some of you have already begun the obligatory eye-roll, thinking that I engage in alarmist bloviation. That’s fine, but read on and see how you feel at the end, then let me know if the inside of your eyelids look better than what I describe, fair enough? Good, let’s go…

Aside from the overtly insane, e.g Rosie, who from the outset claimed that the British sailors’ capture was an orchestrated event to pave the way to war with Iran, there were also many media outlets in the free world wondering aloud if the Brits had indeed strayed into Iranian waters and whether Iran had a right to their actions. The UK claimed immediately that it had GPS proof that their people were in Iraqi waters, but no one bothered to ask for that proof. Then we were treated to multiple photos of the sailors laughing and “being treated well”, which aside from failing to be dismissed as Iranian propaganda was not even mentioned as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, something the left claims to hold dear. Apparently only when we could possibly be perceived as violators of such.

Now the sailors are free and they are speaking out about the treatment they received at the hands of their captors. They are saying that they were “blindfolded, bound and stripped” and that they were “under constant psychological pressure”, all things that are considered torture if inflicted by Americans by today’s standards. The reaction thus far? Iran is stealing a page from the Democrats playbook in responding that the sailors were treated well and are now being forced, by their own government, to lie about Iran! Wait for it, kids…there will be a stampede by leftist “experts” such as Sean Penn and his ilk to be the first aboard the Iranian bandwagon on this.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the Clintons are the pioneers of this tactic. They mastered the art of doing whatever they pleased and then turning the guns on those who had caught them in the act, accusing the discoverers of engaging in a witch hunt. In my mind that is akin to pleading to the judge that your speeding ticket is the result of the police actually doing their jobs because they had the unmitigated audacity to monitor your speed.

So now we have Ahmadinejad claiming a “vast Western conspiracy” and it remains to be seen if his tactic will take hold here at home. I fear that it may. With the shrinkage of the world brought about by the advent of the world wide web, the examples of our corrupt politicians are being mimicked and utilized to the advantage of those who wish us harm. They know what sells here, and they have donned the classic plaid sport coat of the best used car salesmen of all time. They are becoming the hucksters who can bring us down and we cannot allow that to happen.

Sometimes I feel as though I have been the victim of a diabolical plot to make me think I’ve gone insane and that all that I knew to be true was a lie. That is what the enemies of America, both home and abroad, have been successful in doing. They have subverted truth and made believers out of willing dupes who think that if the newspaper says it, it’s true. Many of us know better, but we fight an uphill battle much as the sane person does when trying to escape the asylum.

Pray that propaganda loses.
-Woody