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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
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Professor Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, noted essayist, historian, and friend of truth — also friend of this blog — and creator, about bi-weekly, of My Own Drum, a privately-distributed aggregation of salient developments as reported by online media, discovers, of late, these four writings that appeal to my sense — never infallible — of the important:
From The Rev. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., this essay comprising splendid historiography and a poltroon-ish wrap-up: Christianity & Islam: Are We At War?
From DiscoverTheNetworks, this essay titled Islamist Infiltration Of The [The Fraud] Administration.
From Ben Barrack at Shoebat.com: New Discovery Reveals Grover Norquist On Path To Becoming Muslim Double Agent During Reagan Administration And Has Helped Dirty Up Some Powerful People Along The Way.
Perhaps seeming unrelated to the foregoing but really very much so, and at a surprising and now-always notorious location — The Grey Lady — this essay about Pope Francis I by Eamon Duffy: Who Is Pope Francis?
An essay by Graeme Wood is making the rounds: What ISIS Really Wants. Paul Mirengoff at Power Line picked it up and promoted it as a must-read, twice. So have others. I have read Wood’s essay through. The essay made Paul ruminate. I commented:
Re Wood’s essay: diagnosis is incomplete but accurate as far as it goes.
Re Wood’s essay: prognosis is cliche unintelligent globalist drivel.
Re Wood’s essay: missing are discussions of fundamentals: statecraft and, par excellence, grand national goal, strategy and tactics, which rational policy exhaustively scans and settles prior to the first decision re ISIS.
Conclusion re Wood’s essay: but for some analysis which, in his orbit, should be 15-20-year-old, at a minimum, settled science — good to see someone is catching up, at least analytically — Wood’s essay is worthless.
The Washington Institute prepares background information on Shiite militias and USA ME operations in Iraq and Syria under title: The Fight Against ISIS: Shiite Militias and the Coalition Effort
Related 1:
The older we get the wiser we become…
I’ve disconnected my home alarm system and de-registered from the Neighborhood Watch.
I’ve got two Pakistani flags raised in the front yard, one at each corner, and the black flag of ISIS in the center.
The local police, sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching the house 24/7.
I’ve never felt safer and I’m saving $49.95 a month.
Related 2: Roger Simon: Wonderful Copenhagen: Lessons for 2016.
Update 3: The Fraud uses the Muslim gang sign. Related.
Update 5: America’s “Islamic Fabric”?
Update 6: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy. At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:
Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.
It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.
The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?
Related: On 04 March 2015 Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS. I commented:
I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public. Thank you, General! Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back. And they will be that. This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening. I am content.
Update 7: Angelo M. Codevilla: While The Storm Clouds Gather and here.
Update 8: Onward Christian Soldiers!
Update 9: GEN (R) Petraeus: The Islamic State Is Not Our Biggest Problem In Iraq
Update 10: From Power Line: Science and Scientism.
Update 11: Ronald Reagan At 100: The Great Communicator
Update 12: Hillary Clinton’s Moslem Brotherhood Connections Date From 1990s and include Grover Norquist.
Update 13: The Surprising Weakness Of Invincible Institutions
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA