No Retreat on Terror

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Human Events:




The success of America's war on terror nine years after the September 11 attacks is best summoned up by a special operations officer, one of the first to land in Afghanistan.

"We didn't run," this hard-nosed combatant told HUMAN EVENTS.

After retreating from Vietnam, and then Somalia, and letting al Qaeda off the hook for bombing the USS Cole and U.S. embassies in Africa, the United States went to war after 9/11. It is still at it today.



It's an extremely important achievement, given that fact that radical Islam capitalizes on the weakness of the West. A retreat equals more extremist recruits, more money, more territory—a march toward harsh Sharia law governing the world.

"With [President George W.] Bush originally we dispelled the Vietnam and Somalia syndromes," said the special operator. "We walked away from Vietnam and got our noses bloodied in Somalia and again retreated. The British and Russians got their asses handed to them in Afghanistan and nobody thought we could, or would go there. Bush did, and turned us loose.”

He continued: “We got to do all the things we’d trained for, and promised that we could do. A handful of guys, with just about all the support they requested, smoked their bags. The enemy was shocked that first we hit them there, then that when ambushed, we’d turn toward them and attack relentlessly. They’d never experienced that before. The combination of low-profile, culturally sensitive operators with on-call, pinpoint air support was the ticket."