by Peter Boyles | Nov 23, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
The Light Goes On In Israel About The Insanity Of Islamic Jihadists
I’ve recently returned from Israel, my third trip to the Middle East, my second one this year. While I was in Israel, terrorist bombs blew up a southern part of Beirut, apparently ISIS bombed a Russian airliner killing all on board, and the terrible attacks occurred in Paris. If you go back even to the attack in the United States on 9/11, I think I can come up with a fairly simple profile of who does these things and why.
As politically incorrect as this may sound, make sure the security people at DIA pay attention as you watch them hoist grandma out of her wheelchair wearing Depends to make sure she’s not a threat. I think I know who these people are.
I got cranked on to Sigmund Freud about the middle of my sophomore year in college, where, as you know, the good doctor believed that almost all human behaviors have something to do with sex. Now taking us back in a time machine to when I was of the age of sexual awareness, playing baseball with some older guys, I was taken on my first sexual adventure. I never forgot it.
The motivating force throughout almost all of my life, and other men who are smart enough, have all been driven by … that’s right, sex. Now it’s believed that young men have thoughts about sex about every 35 or 40 seconds. At the grand old age of 72, I find myself thinking about it every 3 or 4 minutes.
In Jerusalem, the centerpiece of all Western faith, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, I believe the most repressive is mainstream Islam. However conservative Christianity and Judaism share that sexual actions are sinful and abstaining from these pleasures is a part of these beliefs. Note to self, you all remember the religious member of your family jumping up and down about gay marriage as if two men who love each other getting married was going to destroy the conservative religious believers of marriage.
So we begin. Imagine you’re a 19-year-old Muslim male and you’re being taught there’s a promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr of Islam. Over here is the pool of young, sexually frustrated Muslim males with no chance of marrying, having nothing to lose and much to gain. To again make my case, in almost every incident suicide bombers have been historically young, unmarried Muslim men. These men join Islamic groups committed to suicidal attacks on infidels to go immediately to paradise to enjoy the beautiful women there.
That’s why I’m reading Roots of Islam. There’s an Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta, who says these little monsters have little to do with religion but everything to do with sex. Sex is unattainable for most young Muslim males, but homeboy, if you just hit this little red button the party starts. How can you go wrong?
As for the women in Saudi Arabia or Iran, and other countries ruled by Sharia laws, none have legal or property rights and certainly not full rights as human beings. Dr. Freud was a great believer in all of this being motivating for behavior at that time in modern Vienna. (Note to self, Freud also thought that cocaine was also the answer to all problems).
Bad treatment and no rights for women, and Islam also tolerates sexual abuse of both boys and girls. Another one of the facts that Freud uncovered in Vienna was that these women had been sexually abused, and remember, if you please Allah, you’re a hero. If you destroy the infidel, you become a good boy. An Islamic hero by becoming a brutal killer. Men are allowed to beat their wives who don’t do what they ask. We’ve witnessed sexual abuse of afghan boys by military and police. It’s an interesting conclusion that political correctness will not allow people to enter that room.
By writing this article I will immediately become an Islamophobe, or simply exercising my white male privilege.
I think we’re watching it work itself out. Remember honor killing? When a young Islamic woman can do such horrible crimes as leaving the house on her own, refusing to enter an arranged mar-riage or dressing in ways that the faith deems inappropriate. Now if that ain’t sexual repression, I don’t know what is.
So I leave you with this one at the holidays. Sexual drive is found by most men and women but apparently remains a mystery to Allah, but you keep kids buttoned up and then tell them all they have to do is hit the red button on a suicide vest and its Christmas morning. And I’ll leave you with one more of uncle Sigmund’s statements, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Nov 2, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
It’s been estimated that the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the American taxpayer between 4 to 6 trillion dollars and resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. The invasion of Iraq was one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history. Politicians, analysts and military historians run from attempting to come up with explanations for the war. In the past in this column we have focused on the lies and deception practiced by the Bush administration, and the motives and causes manufactured by Cheney and company.
The overwhelming evidence is Iraq posed no threat to the U.S., and those who helped manufacture the rationales for the war knew it.
Now comes something even worse. As you may be aware the Bush administration suppressed a 28 page portion of the 2002 Congressional Report attempting to explain the terrorist attacks of September 11th. I waded through the report when it first came out sans the missing 28 pages. It is an 838 page report, chaired by former United States Senator Bob Graham of Florida. Graham now is the leading voice in wanting you and I to know what is in the 28 page portion and why it is classified.
On my morning show on 710 KNUS radio I have now been able to talk with former Senator Graham, as well as Republican Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina, and Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and I’m going to quote you what Thomas Massie said to me about the suppressed pages. He was shocked when he read them, “I had to stop every couple of pages, and just sort of absorb and try to rearrange my understanding of history for the past 13 years and the years, leading up to that.” It challenges you to rethink everything.
Walter Jones is the congressman who investigative reporter James Bovard said, “is best known for coining the phrase ‘Freedom Fries’.” He did so in 2003 when France opposed George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Bovard says Jones has become one of the most outspoken opponents of intervention in Iraq after reading the suppressed pages. Jones introduced a Resolution to the House for the public to be able to read the missing 28 pages. His quote: “The American people deserve the truth, releasing these pages will enhance our national security, not harm it.”
In my second interview with former Senator Graham he indicated that the Saudis are the guilty party, but disclosing Saudi links to 9/11 would have undermined the Bush administration attempt to tie Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.
So as James Bovard asks, “Do you have the right to learn whether a foreign government helped finance the 9/11 attacks?”
One of the saddest moments in reading about these suppressed pages is the Bush administration held back the release of the entire 838 pages until the middle of 2003, after the invasion of Iraq had already begun. Now most recently in a courtroom in New York, on September 28 of this year, the Saudis were dismissed as defendants in the lawsuits brought by the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
The judge, U.S. District Court Judge Daniels, said that the lawyers for the plaintiffs failed to show sufficient evidence to overcome the Saudis’ sovereign immunity.
There is evidence locked away and suppressed. If you’re a member of the House or Senate, my understanding is you can read those by going into a secure room on Capitol Hill if you can get permission from the intelligence community. I’ve read that only 18 Congressmen have done so.
This is like a handgun, fingerprints and tests, are in a police evidenced locker and the judge dismisses a murder case by telling the families of the victim there’s not sufficient evidence, while the gun, the prints and the tests lie behind lock and key. You’ve read my columns many times about my views on President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and the way they manufactured the rationale for the war. As hard as it is for me to say — it’s worse than I imagined. Don’t take my word for this, do your own investigation and come to your own conclusions. Then contact your congressmen and senators, and finally demand the truth of what these people did.
George W. Bush invading Iraq because of 9/11 makes about as much sense as if Franklin Roosevelt had invaded Mexico because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. What would be in those 28 pages if we could read them? The truth, and it’s time to hold that entire corrupt administration responsible for what they did to this country.
More to come, Happy Thanksgiving.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Sep 25, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
As a boy in Western Pennsylvania, my father would tell me when we would see “hobos,” that the only difference between them and the Mellon family (Pennsylvania’s answer to the Coors family) was money. One of the many things the old man never understood was the term “homeless.” The concept made him nuts. Plus, he also never understood how Nixon became President.
Somewhere along the line since my father died, homelessness has become a noble cause. We are now teaching our children that homelessness is the fault of our society. I’ve spent many dead trees writing about political correctness; homelessness is yet another politically correct noble cause. In 2005, John Hickenlooper, then mayor now governor, launched the “Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.” This was for Hickenlooper the equivalent of the old Soviet’s 10 year plans for the glorious people or Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.”
Under the Hickenlooper administration the glorious people of Denver were going to build glorious shelters, and the glorious homeless were going to be given priority and all would be well. Homelessness would end and there will be once again peace in the valley. But, in the words of Gomer Pyle, “Shazaam!” All you have to do is drive down Speer Blvd. to see John Hickenlooper’s own Great Leap Forward in action. If there ever was a bigger con, I guess it was RTD’s light rail, and all kinds of jive attempts to move the Stock Show.
When the Denver Commission to End Homelessness launched its efforts, most Denverites were really sure there would be no homelessness in 10 years. Now here’s where the rubber meets the road.
Enter “The Dragon,” Denver auditor, Dennis Gallagher. He figured 63 million dollars has been spent ending homelessness in the last 10 years. The auditor figured there were an estimated 3,200 homeless people in Denver. Okay, as I’ve stated before, I can neither do math nor marriage, but we’ve got 63 million dollars spent to end homelessness in 10 years — you would think we would have something to show for it. Instead we appear to have even more homelessness.
If you feed bears, squirrels or birds, what you get are just more bears, squirrels and birds. Auditor Gallagher’s review of Denver’s Road Home, found, and I quote, “they’ve done a poor job of tracking numbers and demonstrating progress.” The auditor went on to say the 10 year goal to end homelessness remains unclear. “We’ve spent all of this money but we don’t know if anything is actually getting better.”
Dennis the Menace is being kind. The Commission to End Homelessness was made up of cronies of Mayor Hickenlooper, paid significant salaries, and given titles such as “Homelessness Advocate,” but they were little more than foxes guarding the hen house.
I gained my sobriety 29 years ago, I spent 25 of those years as a volunteer and board member for the late Bob Coté’s Step 13. As opposed to The Road Home, Bob Coté’s motto was “work works, and sobriety works.” And to my surprise the one guy in the city who understood how to end homelessness, was never once invited to any of John Hickenlooper’s summits on ending homelessness. Or, for that matter, anything that Mayor Hancock does along the same lines.
One of the things that I’ve urged Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey to do, (from my mouth to Mitch’s ear) is to launch a grand jury investigation into Denver’s shameless waste of money regarding homelessness. It’s a fraud, this is a con, this is a grift perpetrated by J.H. and supported by big media. One of the lines from a Denver Post article was how the Commission is still committed to ending homelessness. These are the moments that I always want to say, “Hey Dick Tracy where’d you park your squad car?”
Speaking out against the homelessness con job is another politically correct crime. John Hickenlooper created Denver’s Road Home, people gave the money and things are worse. Where I came from, that’s a con. You paid the man to fix the hole in your roof, to pave your driveway, to fix the television, and still nothing works. But, of course, these guys keep their jobs and they are still promising that they’re going to end homelessness. Drive down Speer Blvd., every street corner, everybody’s got a sign everybody’s got a mooch going. Most of them have cell phones and they’ve got a cigarette in their mouth and they don’t look like they missed a meal. The phony 10 year plan worked well for them.
Happy Halloween. Trick or Treat, you got tricked!
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Aug 31, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
As we have passed the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender I am fascinated by the actions of current Japanese Emperor Akihito as well as watching current Japanese Minister Shinzo Abe who seemingly fell short of apologizing or continues to attend shrines who honor the war criminals and the war dead instead of doing what we in the West call “doing the right thing.”
Abe went so far as to speak to the war dead thanking them for the sacrifice which he said helped created Japan’s present peace and prosperity.
That’s fascinating, I remember them doing their level best to destroy a third of all of Asia. To congratulate themselves on how those wartime actions, religious insanity and imperial motives are the reason why they are prosperous today is truly amazing.
So all you uninitiated forget about the Bataan Death March, the rape of Nanking and untold thousands of murdered Chinese and Korean people. So amidst politicians dredging up the past in a manner that suits them, pops up the devil himself, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
After spending a week unable to absolve his brother President George W. Bush of blame concerning the Iraq invasion and he started blaming the problems in today’s Middle East on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I see a little of the Japanese emperor and the prime minister shining through. Some wag recently took Jeb on when Jeb said that his brother “W” didn’t get everything right in Iraq. Juan Cole tweeted that such a statement was like saying Custer didn’t get everything right at the Little Big Horn. Dubya’s Iraq invasion is simply the largest foreign policy screwup in American history. As Juan Cole also noted Dubya didn’t get everything right indeed. Now, in true fashion, Jeb is foisting the next great lie that his brother’s “surge was working.”
History tells us always pay close attention to what politicians are actually claiming. In 2006 the U.S. installed the Islamic Mission Party in control in Iraq. That Shiite dominated party was hated by both the Kurds and the Sunni as well as several other key groups in Iraq. The new prime minister was the universally despised Nouri al-Maliki. Al- Maliki was involved in a number of religious and political fronts since being driven out of Iraq by Saddam Hussein. Al-Maliki was very close to Dubya, when things got bad through 2006. When Dubya’s advisors, like James Baker, counseled him to just get out of Iraq, he got a second opinion from another man, General David Petraeus. Petraeus said that America simply needed to have more soldiers to fully control the country. And those who know history, know that General William Westmoreland did the same thing in Vietnam telling Lyndon Johnson all we needed was more troops.
Time out on the field. See kids, this is why I urge people to read history as it is ever so repetitive whether it’s the French, the British, the Spaniards or even the Soviets, the game always begins the same and ends the same.
Iraq fell into a civil war, and the American military under Dubya began to withdraw. Jeb Bush, aka Jebya!, has recently made a claim at the Reagan library that Obama and Hillary Clinton are to blame for the rise of ISIS. This is the guy who is the brother of the guy who used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq and now says overthrowing Saddam Hussein “turned out to be a pretty good deal.” I ask you, pretty good deal for whom? The numbers speak for themselves — a minimum 100,000 dead Iraqis, half a million widows and orphans, 4,500 young dead Americans. 3,500 wounded warriors, a trillion dollars sunk into a country ravaged and a Mideast nation awash in war and blood. Again, who was it a pretty good deal for exactly?
This same brother in 2008 signed what’s been called an agreement between us and a representative of Iraq for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq by Christmas Eve 2011. The throwaway line apparently comes from 2009 when we closed our biggest POW camp, Camp Bucca. One of the prisoners released was future ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who told his former guards: “I’ll see you guys in New York.”
From time to time I spend a large part of my broadcast day talking about Barack Obama and the creation of his life. I assure you only a handful of people know the true story of Barack Obama’s life. He’s a fabrication, a will-o’-the-wisp, a ghost. But all the insanity we are witnessing in the Mideast, none of this is Obama’s creation. Why any rational person can continue to believe anything any Bush says about the tragic wars the U.S. has gotten itself involved in because of the Bushes is beyond me. Peter Paul and Mary sang “When will they ever learn?” and “Where have all the flowers gone?” When will the Republican Party learn, when will the American people learn, when will you learn? Whatever you do for the love of heaven don’t let any of those Bushes back in control of this country.
Sayonara.
Peter
by Peter Boyles | Aug 3, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
In the wake of the terribleness of the Charleston, South Carolina, shooting, South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds. The hue and cry against the media landscape, politically correct corporations, and progressive wolves, chimed in. After that first media time period, it was clear to any thinking person that if that flag had not flown over South Carolina that the killer Dylann Roof would have turned out to be a lovely kind gentle young progressive activist. But as we all know the symbol of the confederacy made him do it.
For at least 10 years Nikki Haley walked under that flag and in the aftermath of the killings discovered it over her Republican head and demanded the removal of the flag less than a week after that 21-year-old white boy gunned down nine people in a historical African American church.
That put blood in the water and the politically correct piranhas began to gather. The mayor of Charleston, Joe Riley Jr., said that somehow if we had taken away Mr. Roof’s symbol of misguided superiority and bigotry, that hate-filled shooting would have never happened.
Addendum #1 — Never wanting to offend, Walmart pulls down all Confederate merchandise, but continues to sell the Iranian and Cuban flags. The Iranian flag was created in the wake of the Islamic revolution that brought the Ayatollahs into power in 1979, and kidnapped the American personnel at the U.S. Embassy.
Walmart is also selling a canvas featuring Fidel Castro that includes the quote, “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
All of us have read about the Taliban in Afghanistan blowing up monuments to Buddhism. We also know what ISIL and ISIS are doing in Syria, destroying what historians are calling the antiquities.
Addendum #2 — Washington, D.C. residents say take down the Jefferson Memorial and rename Washington, D.C. Dateline Atlanta NAACP says, “We can sandblast Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis from the Stone Mountain Park Memorial.”
But medieval Europeans from time to time in religious rages over numerous plagues, would go about digging up bodies thinking somehow these long dead were responsible for current tragedies. I believe that also applied to Vampires.
Addendum #3 — Memphis’ mayor literally wants to dig up a Confederate general and move him. Memphis’ A. C. Wharton has called for the removal of the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park. In quotes he told the press, “These relics must be moved,” as though somehow the first Grand Dragon of the KKK, would be responsible for evil today. The city of Dallas is considering removing the statue of Robert E. Lee. These people are the American mullahs.
CNN anchor Don Lemon has floated the idea of changing the Jefferson Memorial since the 3rd President of the U.S. was a slave owner. The fleur-de-lis, the heraldic symbol of the French monarchy is now being considered to be a racist symbol by Tulane University as the French were in charge of Louisiana in 1724, when a discriminatory Black Code was adopted. That, of course, is also the symbol of the New Orleans Saints. Politically correct sports owners quake in their boots. It’s been estimated there are about 200 schools in the south that are named after Confederate leaders and military members.
In California, Assembly Woman Lorena Gonzales, D-San Diego has sent a letter to the San Diego Unified School District, demanding a rename of the school that bears the name Robert E. Lee.
Progressives at the University of Texas have signed a petition calling for the removal of a statue of George Washington due to his owning slaves. Texas public schools are jumping on the bandwagon to shun symbols and dump historic figures. It isn’t just Democrats, Mitch McConnell wants the state capitol in Kentucky to remove the statue of Jefferson Davis, (how many times do you think Mitch walked past that statue?).
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue and renaming Lee Circle.
Saving the best for last, New York film critic Lou Lumenick wants to ban the motion picture Gone with the Wind, and adding insult to injury, The Dukes of Hazzard because the Confederate flag was painted on the top of the car General Lee.
Summary: It’s all been done before. In the novel 1984 Winston Smith rewrote the past so Big Brother can control the future. The Fuhrer knew how to do it, the people around Emperor Hirohito knew how to do it, and those screaming to rename Washington, D.C., know how to do it. In fact it’s already been done. It was called Stalingrad.
Welcome to the new America Sharia.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Jun 25, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
If this were three months ago, there is no way I would’ve said to myself, “Peter you are going to be sitting down and trying (with great help) to write a column for the Chronicle about a trip to Lebanon, and a chance to meet Hezbollah.” But here I am sitting in the Chronicle office, surrounded by ink-stained scribes, talking out the story of my trip to Lebanon.
This all has its very strange beginning, a phone call from longtime friend and legendary car dealer John Medved. Medved tells me that I have to meet this interesting priest that he’s gotten to know, and he gives me a date and a time to be in his office. It’s before Cinco de Mayo, snowing, and off I go to the giant Medved autoplex. This was first time I met the priest, Father Andre Mahanna, a priest in the Maronite tradition of the Catholic Church of Lebanon.
He begins to tell me about what is happening to Christian people in the Middle East. John Medved, a very devout Catholic, wants me to help gain attendance for an ecumenical prayer breakfast at Father Andre’s church. Father Andre, Medved, myself and one of Medved’s staffers go to lunch. Outside it’s a snowstorm. Inside at lunch, I’m captured by the utter brilliance of this priest. He speaks English, Arabic, French, Italian and a smattering of Greek.
I’ve written about all of this before — as a little boy, my parents were a long way from what people considered middle class. My mother used to take us in the summer to the Carnegie Library and we would take out books — six each every two weeks. I read Ivanhoe, Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, and Men of Iron. I read about the crusaders (when they were the good guys). We sang “Onward Christian Soldiers.” It was the period of my life that preceded when I thought dinosaurs were everything.
In that period, I thought being a feudal knight and making a clear path to the Holy Land for devout people would’ve been the ultimate job.
That was also the beginning of me being drawn to the mysterious Templars; knights. Even later in life I find myself so intrigued by Templars, Jacques de Molay, why Friday the 13th was an ominous day, and do the Templars actually have the lost cup of Christ? PS — Any of you who saw “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” have an idea of what a Templar is so I mentioned the Templars to Father Andre. His eyes lit up and I thought, anyone who knows that history of the Templar deserves my affection and my attention.
Using the power of 710 KNUS, we were going to fill up the prayer breakfast that John Medved had wanted me to help Father Andre promote. It was mission complete. As they say, “we sold the joint out.”
By this time, I became fully involved in reading about what ISIS was doing to Christian people in parts of Iraq and Syria that have become captured lands. ISIS (Barack Obama’s JV team) systematically and brutally murders, rapes and kills any and all that stand in their path to create the Islamic state.
The Islamic state is a Jihad-waging Sunni-extremist group that hopes to create an Islamic nation in the modern Middle East. ISIS was formed by several fringe movements that formed into a single large force. No one is quite sure of the number of fighters, but it certainly is close to 30,000 Middle Eastern nationals and foreigners that make up ISIS.
They have been successful against Syrian and Iraqi governments, as well as other insurgent groups. As we write, ISIS forces now control Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province; they also have solidified footholds in Libya to expand their reach. ISIS — ISIL — I believe has an operational presence in the U.S. as well. The ultimate plan is for the entire modern Middle East to become the caliphate — an Islamic state that will stretch from Kuwait through Jordan, Saudi Arabia and of course, Lebanon.
I became so intrigued with all of this, thinking to myself — we are watching history happen in the Middle East and that I absolutely should go. But for the life of me, I can’t explain to anyone why I’ve done this. I’ve bought my own plane tickets, paid for my own hotel room. And if anyone knows me, I’m like crime — crime don’t pay. But there I was in Beirut, riding in a car from the Beirut airport with a couple of young men who I have never met in my life — a couple of Maronite kids — and we were off to the see the Wizard.
ISIS fighters are about 90-100 miles from Beirut on the other side of a mountain range in Syria. Beirut is an incredibly beautiful, cosmopolitan enlightened city with some of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. It’s vibrant and exciting but I’m sure it has elements of danger. At the end of the second day, I was on a rooftop restaurant with some members of the faculty of the Lebanese Maronite university, surrounded by beautiful people, the latest fashions and laughing. My first thoughts were that these are the French in 1938-39. They are having the times of their lives, going to see Charlie Chaplin films, American jazz, smoking cigarettes and going to the follies, and on the other side of that border are the Nazis. By the prickling of my thumb, something wicked this way comes.
The Lebanese people that I got to know, Muslim and Christian alike, had one principal question, Why did George Bush invade Iraq? They used the term “Twin Towers” — they don’t say “9/11.”
I am beginning to realize that there was a wake up in the United States of America that people were beginning to see that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11; on this statement of truth, the Lebanese are way ahead of us. In fact, most of the information supports that the Saudi Arabians were involved and not the Iraqis. In fact, I’ve tried to make the case that ISIS-ISIL is George Bush’s Frankenstein. That is, if Saddam was still there, they would not be.
The other interesting question they asked me is if they thought Barack Obama is a Muslim. They are all great Internet readers and know that I am known as a “birther.” So they would ask me if I believed him to be a Muslim — I told them that I have no idea as to the answer to both those questions. But then the most critical was asked: What did I think of Hezbollah? And do I think that they are a terrorist group?
Today in the war against ISIS-ISIL, there are three factions fighting against them. In the north, it’s Kurdish people and in Syria, it’s Bassar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria, today’s version of Saddam Hussein, and last but not least is the Hezbollah. In fact, outside of Baghdad today, the Shia militia is backed by Iran and the Hezbollah, fighting for the American backed gout in Baghdad, the party of God, in Lebanon. And that’s it. Barack Obama’s position that al-Ashir Assad should go, which is equally as stupid as George Bush pushing out Saddam Hussein. If al-Assad goes, it’s “Katie, bar the door.”
And Hezbollah and the Lebanese army will be all that stands between the Lebanese people and the viscious ISIS murderers. When I told some people one night that I knew this all to be true, they asked me if I wanted to meet the head of Hezbollah. And so that next morning, I was taken by car to meet Mohammad Raad. After going through a number of checkpoints, and driving in the city of Beirut, I was ushered into a large room, and there I met Mohammad Raad, President of Loyalty to the Resistance bloc of Hezbollah. I was told that I was the first western media guy that he ever met.
We were only supposed to have a limited amount of time. We ended up talking for two hours. I told him that in the late ’70s when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, I was part of a fundraising committee that was called “The Committee for a Free Afghanistan.” I was on the committee with a lot of very great people and some doctors at Children’s Hospital; we managed to get some children into the U.S. that had been brutalized by the war. He kind of sat up a little in his chair when I told him that and I told him that members of the mujahideen had come twice to Denver. When I stared into their deep black eyes, I knew right then that the Soviets were not going to defeat them. And I said to him, in that time period, that the mujahideen were heroes in the West.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. These were the men who were fighting the Soviet Union. We were locked in the Cold War. The Soviets were our enemies and the mujahideen were our friends. In fact, they were seen as heroes. Today Hezbollah is fighting the enemies of our country, the Unites States of America, and it’s almost the opposite of the mujahideen of the late ’70s. I’ve seen what ISIS is capable of doing — these are the Nazis. This is 1939 and as FDR and Winston Churchill made a decision, after the invasion of the Soviet Union by Adolf Hitler, it went back to back Stalin.
When we talk about the contemporary world — when I tell you what’s coming our way from these barbarians, religious fanatics, crazed killers, ISIS and ISIL, it’s imperative that you believe me. I don’t believe American foreign policy can do much, if anything, in that part of the world. The enormous mistakes of the Bush administration, followed by the Obama administration are done. But we must help save the incredible people of Lebanon. I visited centers of Iraqi and Syrian refugees — Christians who had crossed the desert to get away from ISIS and found refuge in Lebanon.
When I initially went to Lebanon, it was to help Father Andre find help for the 1.3-1.6 million people fleeing from ISIS. Lebanon is the end of the line. The population of Lebanon is about 4 million people. Lebanon is about the size of the state of Delaware. They just increased their population by a quarter. It’s important to know, Lebanese are not Arabs; they are Phoenicians. They gave the world the alphabet. They taught the world commerce.
I stayed close to an 11th century French crusader castle; I walked on Roman roads, and I saw where Phoenicians sailed out to begin trade in an ancient world. The invaders enter through Lebanon and always leave Lebanon to go to Spain. I saw a bunker where the German army was during WWII and remnants of the invasion of the PLO. The Israeli army has come and gone; the Syrian army has come and gone; the Romans have come and gone; and the French have come and gone. If ISIS comes, it’s not going to go. The religious war is not being fought in Israel. The religious war for Western civilization is being fought in Lebanon. The Maronites celebrate Christianity as it was done in the centuries following Jesus and they continue that tradition. If the light goes out in Lebanon, the light is going out in the world.
I got back on the airplane by myself at 8 o’clock in the morning two days before Ramadan was set to begin. That’s a long way from reading Ivanhoe realizing that perhaps we need to be modern Templars. And I’m not at all talking about the most overused statements in recent memory, “Boots on the ground.” That has gotten this country nowhere. But rather to find a way to help the right people defeat what’s waiting for all of us.
The picture that I am showing in the column is called the “Nun,” the 14th letter in the Arabic alphabet; it stands for “Nazarene,” equivalent to the put-down words for Jews and Blacks. (You know them, I don’t need to tell you those words.) So as these new barbarians come into and capture small towns and cities, they find out who the Christians are — be they Coptics, Maronites, Orthodox, or evangelical Protestants; they mark their houses with the Nun using spray paint, reminiscent of the Kristallnacht when the Nazis marked with the star of David, broke their windows, burned temples, and stores so the brown shirts knew who they were.
Only now, when the next wave comes behind the markers, everyone in the homes is killed and they play soccer with the heads of the children. Hardly a JV team. I don’t know what I’m going to do next, but I know that maybe for the first time in my life, I see something that has to be done. We must stand against these medieval monsters.
— Peter
