The U.S. Israel and Iran on the Verge…

September 30th, 2012 | Author: Dr. Ross Riggs

Senator Rick Santorum “charges that president Obama’s refusal to take effective action against Iran allows the Islamic Republic to ignore the U.S. and pursue its nuclear weapons agenda. In an exclusive interview with NewsmaxTV, Santorum clearly argued that Obama’s disastrous foreign policy of ‘negotiating with radical Islam’”[i] leaves the United States and Israel dangerously close to a hot war with Iran. In both Israel and Iran a multiplicity of civilian communities are within range of missiles. It is believed that Iran may have purposely placed their weapons-making facilities within populated areas to prevent a full scale missile or air assault. Regardless, it appears that Israel has drawn their own red line as a timeline for a preemptive strike against their nemesis in Tehran.  

President Netanyahu proclaimed, “We (the Jewish people) will never be uprooted again.”[ii] A statement that is also made in the Old Testament book of prophecy of Amos when the Lord declares that He would never allow the Israelites to be uprooted again; this coming, however, on the latter end of a time of great distress for the people and the destruction of Jerusalem. In Amos 9 is: “I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.”[iii]

The Israeli president also declared that: “We want to see the three great religions that sprang forth from our region – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – coexist in peace and in mutual respect. Yet the medieval forces of radical Islam, whom you just saw storming the American embassies throughout the Middle East, they oppose this. They seek supremacy over all Muslims. They are bent on world conquest. They want to destroy Israel, Europe, America. They want to extinguish freedom. They want to end the modern world. Militant Islam has many branches – from the rulers of Iran with their Revolutionary Guards to Al Qaeda terrorists to the radical cells lurking in every part of the globe.”[iv]


The Israeli President gave not only a brief reminder of world history but with it a warning that the time spent patronizing Hitler is as dangerous or more as the placating of Ahmadinejad.
                                                                    

1941 meeting between Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler.

“Some 70 years ago, the world saw another fanatic ideology bent on world conquest. It went down in flames. But not before it took millions of people with it. Those who opposed that fanaticism waited too long to act. In the end they triumphed, but at an (sic) horrific cost. My friends, we cannot let that happen again. At stake is not merely the future of my own country. At stake is the future of the world. Nothing could imperil our common future more than the arming of Iran with nuclear weapons. To understand what the world would be like with a nuclear-armed Iran, just imagine the world with a nuclear-armed Al-Qaeda. It makes no difference whether these lethal weapons are in the hands of the world’s most dangerous terrorist regime or the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization. They’re both fired by the same hatred; they’re both driven by the same lust for violence. Just look at what the Iranian regime has done up till now, without nuclear weapons. In 2009, they brutally put down mass protests for democracy in their own country. Today, their henchmen are participating in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Syrian civilians, including thousands of children, directly participating in this murder. They abetted the killing of American soldiers in Iraq and continue to do so in Afghanistan. Before that, Iranian proxies killed hundreds of American troops in Beirut and in Saudi Arabia. They’ve turned Lebanon and Gaza into terror strongholds, embedding nearly 100,000 missiles and rockets in civilian areas. Thousands of these rockets and missiles have already been fired at Israeli communities by their terrorist proxies. In the last year, they’ve spread their international terror networks to two dozen countries across five continents – from India and Thailand to Kenya and Bulgaria. They’ve even plotted to blow up a restaurant a few blocks from the White House in order to kill a diplomat. And of course, Iran’s rulers repeatedly deny the Holocaust and call for Israel’s destruction almost on a daily basis, as they did again this week from the United Nations.” [iv]                                                 

According to internationally syndicated political commentator, Glenn Beck, America is facing its biggest threat in Islamic extremism. With the recent attacks in Egypt and Libya by the Muslim Brotherhood, there appears to be a sustaining action of the ‘Brotherhood’ of their plan to infiltrate the United States at all levels of government. As proof, Beck refers to a treatise recovered in 2001. “In 2001, an inconspicuous manifesto now known as The Project  was recovered during a raid in Switzerland: A manifesto that turned out to be a Muslim road map for infiltrating and defeating the West. Today, files containing evidence from the largest terror financing trial in U.S. history, which include details about The Project, are being withheld by the Department of Justice.”[v]

Beck is not the first to accuse the Department of Justice and the Department of State of collusion with the enemies of the United States to forward some innocuous diplomatic or political goal. Such games, in these times, are extremely dangerous; such as the ill-fated Fast and Furious debacle with Attorney General Eric Holder and the sale of guns to drug gangs in Mexico that resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Agent, Brian Terry. Taking one’s focus off of the war in which the U.S. is engaged is also part of the blame being centered on U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, for the Benghazi Consulate attack that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. Representative Peter King, (R-NY) Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee contends that a “failure of foreign policy message and leadership” were integral to the failure in security that exacerbated the damage caused by the Benghazi attack, as well as, not preventing the attack completely.

Where does all of this leave the U.S., Israel and Iran? It leaves the three seemingly hopelessly locked in a showdown reminiscent of Gary Cooper, American movie icon in his role as a Kane, resigned sheriff, in the classic High Noon[vi]. The plot centers on the tedious wait Kane must endure as the clock in the saloon mercilessly and slowly climbs toward 12:00 when he must go into the street to face a gun fight against four armed men, one of whom he had sent to prison. Kane was unable to get anyone in the town to help him and without help; he against four, his fate was set. In this case, it seems that Israel is former Sheriff Kane and Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, HAMAS, and Hezbollah the four gun-slingers. The United States is in the part played by Lucien Prival – Joe the bartender at the Ramirez Saloon where Kane (Cooper) must wait and listen as the clock ticks the minutes so deliberately. Joe does very little from the sidelines. Other than to offer a drink to Kane as he waits and then watch Kane agonize until he must walk out the door alone. It is almost prophetic that Joe the bartender never received a name-credit in the movie. The most dramatic difference between this 1952 movie classic and the 2012 reality is that Israel’s fate is not set like Cooper’s. Israel will have help, particularly if no one comes to her aid. The U.S., Israel and Iran are on the verge of a hot war. When and where this will begin is anybody’s guess (and there are many) but the truth is that only perhaps the President of Israel himself knows when that red line will be crossed. Let’s hope that in this real-life drama, “Joe” comes out from behind the bar, takes a shotgun and stands tall in the street next to “Kane” facing down the evil coming their way.

Dr. Ross L. Riggs, Director   Security Consulting Investigations, LLC
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[i] Israel Diplomatic Network, The Embassy of Israel to the United States, President Netanyahu’s Speech to the United Nations, September 2012

[ii] Ibid.

[iii] www.Biblegateway.com Amos 9:15 NIV

[iv] Ibid.
[v] http://us.mg206.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.partner=sbc&.rand=32oe5tm7qab61

[vi] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/combined

A Clash of Cultures

September 29th, 2012 | Author: Dr. Ross Riggs

Most of us might be surprised at the vast number of sub-cultures within our own culture. Some would consider the point so off-handedly that, even if these subcultures exist, all that is necessary is to be aware of them, nothing more. We certainly do not need another genre for which we must be politically correct. Already the current lists have made it to the far edges of ad-nauseum. Why belabor yet another category that seeks to be recognized, romanticized, eulogized, and deified?

This, however, is a culture that has been with us since the beginning of our great country, indeed throughout the history of civilization. Yet, the American version of this culture is one that does not seek recognition. Most of the time, this culture prefers to be unnoticed. A simple tip of the hat in recognition of their sacrifice is enough because there is little our supra-culture can do. Perhaps the only way to benefit this culture is to keep the virtue of our American culture at its very best.

Regrettably, I have been as little mindful of this sub-culture as most others, at least until recently. Recent events have driven home to me their existence. It was not in some grandiose presentation that I was pricked at my conscience, nor was it at some hall of heritage that I was alerted to their presence. It was, of all things, a small sign in the parking lot of a grocery store. I had never seen such a sign before and unless any American has a chance to go shopping at a PX or BX (post or base exchange) on a military installation, you will probably never see one yourself. A small metal sign that drove home to me the hundreds of years of sacrifice, grief, pain and pride, (yes, pride) that the sign represents.

The sign simply read: “Reserved Parking Gold Star Families” and reading it I was struck with such a sense of astonishment. I was astounded that I had never given so much as a passing thought to the thousands of families that carry on in day to day life, after the ceremonies, after the condolences, after the cards and visits have stopped. The ‘Gold Star’ families, those who have lost someone in combat, keep on with life, with shopping at the PX, with bills and car repairs and every day with a hole in their heart where a loved one, a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine lives now as a memory.

Praise God for Gold Star Families and may we be reminded of them every day. When we are, may we ask God to bless them as they carry on, living a life Reserved for Gold Star Families. 

(For more information about the history behind the Gold Star, follow the link to Gold Star Mothers)

Our family proudly displays a ‘Blue Star’ emblem in our front window and a similar decal on my wife’s car. Praise God that it is now a Blue Star and if God should ordain that it ever be Gold, may we honor the work of these proud families with our own.

THE BEAT – Will Never Be The Same

September 13th, 2012 | Author: Dr. Ross Riggs

             

Wanis al-Sharef, eastern Libya’s deputy interior minister told reporters following the deadly attack on the U.S. Embassy there which coincided with a military style raid on a ‘safe house’ utilized by the American government that the militants used civilians protesting an anti-Islam film as cover for their action.[i] It is most likely that what agitation there may have been because of the flap over the movie and its depiction of Mohammad was much more orchestrated than it was an incendiary reaction. Quasi-professional rabble rousers aided the militarily trained rebels to score a hit against the U.S.

Locally, the hue and cry of protectionism and isolationism has been raised. Many are decrying why we should send aid of any kind to nations that openly attack our people and rebuke our way of life. The hypocrisy of despising capitalism and then taking the financial and other types of aid that capitalism has made possible is getting a bit too hard to swallow. There is much anger in the midst of both sides of the chasm that is widening between protestant, Catholic, and even non-religious folks and those of the Muslim faith.

What does this mean for the police officer on the beat? Not only are the neighborhoods and cities under their watch integrated with persons of all races, creeds, faiths and genealogies, the department within which the officers work are a microcosm of that same environment (or it should be). So in what way can these officers work together, even as they may have to enter a hostile neighborhood? It is especially difficult if that neighborhood is seething with the issue of distrust between two people, families or groups that mirror the make-up of the pair of officers standing in the middle.

The Iran hostage crisis 1981

A generation before mine said that when the English invaded, America lost its innocence and a downward spiral began that took with it America’s youth, spiritual foundations and our character. The reference was not to Concord and Lexington, nor was it along the shores of Lake Erie with Commodore Perry standing strong. It took place on a sound stage in front of a “live studio audience.” The ‘captain’ on deck was the one and only, Ed Sullivan and the British attack forces were made up of four young men named Paul, Ringo, John and George. Perhaps something was lost but it wasn’t innocence. The loss of innocence for my generation came in Southeast Asia and later in a Marine Barracks in Beirut and then for 444 days in the U.S. Embassy in Iran. A similar loss came for the next generation at the Pentagon, in a field in Pennsylvania and at the Twin Towers in NYC. Does every generation have to face their own crucible that rips innocence from them?

The society which then is left smoldering and with a distant kind of gurgling sound coming from its waning life, must find a way to keep going. Very often the people take their cue from the cop on the beat. They cannot receive that cue or trace their example from a political leader, though some have been great inspiration, such as the Gipper. But, politicians  are too far removed from the neighborhoods where society really exists. That sometimes grizzled old cop, who has seen more than he could ever recount, is teamed up with the often starry-eyed ‘do gooder’ fresh from the academy setting out to save the world. Together they hash out what will work to keep their neighborhood, their beat, from coming apart at the seams. By the time they get it re-stitched a bit, the starry-eyed rookie is a little less so and the old grizzly bear of a cop has a renewed sense of purpose, hope and even amazement at the way people really can get along if you keep it simple.

That dynamic duo will never fix the crises in the Middle East, though over coffee with other cops they’ll debate it until the Sinai Peninsula is ready to slide off into the ocean. They can’t reign in government or establish defense protocol… but their own little corner of the world will make it through another day.
It is true that once innocence is lost a beat can never be the same. Sometimes, just sometimes, it can be better.

Dr. Ross L. Riggs, Director Security Consulting Investigations, LLC

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[i] Consulate attack planned as 2-part militant assault, Libyan official says

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September 12th, 2012 | Author: Dr. Ross Riggs

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Unsung Heroes: The Other Silent Service

August 24th, 2012 | Author: Dr. Ross Riggs

A vague report about a possible attack somewhere in a remote part a country most folks cannot find on a map may be the only word from the other silent service. For most of its WWII years and beyond, the U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet was known as the silent service for their ability to seemingly glide right past enemy defenses and deliver tactical units or observers behind enemy lines. There always seems to be, in the movies at least, a sub somewhere within responding distance to help out a stranded James Bond, agent 007 of the MI-5. Perhaps there-in lay the link between the submarine service and the clandestine world of field agents, operatives and, our imagination’s favorite, spies. 

There is neither glamor nor glitz, as the Ian Fleming portrayals make us believe (or at least hope for). The work of an undercover operative whether it is in a local police department sorting out the drug dealers from the thieves or in the clandestine section of the CIA in some exotic part of the world, such as a back alley, near the dumpster, just past the sanitation station in Tabriz has little need of spare tuxedos with two-way radio cuff links. The most seductive beauty that has passed information to the agent in the last six months is a too soon aged crack addict who has recently contracted head-lice. This is the stuff of which Hollywood blockbusters are made!

Throughout the Iraq wars and continuing in Afghanistan, Iran has aided and abetted our enemies with weapons, training, and personnel and is responsible for the deaths of far too many Americans. But there is an amazing side to this story and that is the taking it back to them and sticking it in their face that our CIA, under General D.H. Petraeus, is accomplishing. Without fanfare and even in the midst of leaks from the Administration that border on treason, the CIA and other U.S. military groups continue to function effectively. Actions, reported to have occurred, include cyber-attacks which sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program and the virus Stuxnet; which according to sources, set Tehran’s nuclear hopes back two years. Sabotage and unclaimed explosions in different parts of the country contiguous to the nuclear research, 17 top Iranian military officials killed, destroyed gas and oil facilities and a plant that makes a special kind of steel used in the centrifuges all have come under special scrutiny by the U.S. and her allies.  I have no direct knowledge as to what group, groups, nation or nations orchestrated this on-going special warfare. One Israeli general is quoted as responding, when asked about the source of these complex operations and the damage that has been inflicted, that sometimes there are “things that happen unnaturally.”[i]

We want the silent services to be permitted to remain silent, and wouldn’t now shed light on it except that the light has already been turned on and it is the nay-sayers, the detractors that control the light switch; so it is time some positive light shows through. I, for one, am very thankful for everything that General Petraeus has meant for this country. We are a better people because of him and those he has commanded and now commands. We are a safer people because of him and the men he commanded and now commands. Our gratitude and prayers go with him and with those persons carrying out whatever directives they have received.

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[i] Dowd, Alan W. “Shadow War” The American Legion Magazine, July 2012.

SECURITY UPDATE: Middle East

August 5th, 2012 | Author: Dr. Ross Riggs

The following is for information purposes only to aid in decision making and situational analysis.

(Note: certain providers request we do not utilize their information. LIGNET is a primary source of the following clips of intelligence information and is for internal use only by ABWE CEEMED and is not to be re-printed without permission.)

Iranian Ships Using False Flags to Evade UN and U.S. Sanctions
Although some progress is being made to stop Iranian ships from transporting WMDs, a new U.S. report details the cat-and-mouse game that Tehran is playing to evade sanctions. Iran is doing this not just through deception, but by exploiting the weakness of UN resolutions, as LIGNET explains.

Syrian Chemical Weapons Admission Could Be Turning Point
The Syrian government’s statement yesterday that it has stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons but will only use them in the face of “external aggression” was most likely made in response to the sudden surge in rebel attacks that appear to be loosening President Bashar al-Assad’s hold on power. The announcement could lead the international community to reconsider its approach to the crisis in Syria given the possibility that the Assad regime could use these weapons on its own people if sufficiently threatened.

Iran: Fears Over Nuclear Program Grow After U.S. Arrests
Last week’s stunning U.S. indictments over a plot to export U.S. technology for Iran’s nuclear program and new threats to close the Strait of Hormuz suggest that stepped-up efforts to find a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program have failed to reduce the possibility of a military conflict. The size of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile – which could be converted into nuclear weapons fuel – will continue to grow, along with the near-term chances of an Israeli airstrike.

Syria: Conflicting Accounts of Alleged Massacre Hurt All Sides
The UN and the United States roundly condemned a massacre of Syrian civilians by the Syrian army in the town of Tremseh on July 12, but new reports suggest the attack may have been a battle between the Syrian army and armed rebel forces. The death toll also may be lower than previously reported. If these new reports are accurate, it would be another instance of the difficulty of determining the facts on the ground in what now appears to be a Syrian civil war

Iran Won’t be Cowed by New U.S. Bunker Buster Bomb
U.S. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley’s July 25 disclosure that the long-delayed 30,000-pound GBU-57B bunker-buster bomb known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) could be used in action immediately if needed is probably an attempt by the Obama administration to signal to Iran that U.S. military action is on the table in the event that diplomacy and economic sanctions fail to convince Tehran to give up its nuclear program.

Netanyahu Says Israel Still Considering Iran Attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s still debating with government advisers whether to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

The premier spoke in an interview with Channel 2 television as Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was flying from Cairo to Israel to meet him, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other officials tomorrow.

“I haven’t decided yet whether to attack,” Netanyahu said. “However, I see the commitment of this regime of ayatollahs to develop nuclear bombs that are meant to destroy us and I won’t let that happen.”

Netanyahu said media reports that a decision on Iran has been made are wrong and irresponsible. While describing the process as one that involves conferring with a wide range of advisers, the prime minister noted that Israel’s 1981 air raid on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor was carried out over the objections of the Mossad and military-intelligence agencies.

In Cairo, Panetta told reporters he’ll discuss the Iranian nuclear threat with Israel’s leaders and a “number of options” on how to respond. Iran says its uranium enrichment program will be used only for peaceful purposes.

In Syria’s Turmoil, Al-Qaeda Sees Opportunity
Believed by many to have entered a period of decline, al-Qaeda has reemerged with a series of dramatic bombings in Iraq and probably Syria, putting the region on notice that it cannot be ignored. The latest violence, which killed more than 100 Iraqi civilians, is part of a new strategy to link the insurgency in Iraq with the Sunni jihad against the Assad regime in Syria, a plan that is creating a new regional security threat, as LIGNET explains.

COULD ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN IN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER? Netanyahu warns U.S. time is running out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta yesterday that time is running out for the international community to neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat. Yes, economic sanctions are seriously harming Iran’s economy — driving up prices, creating scarcity of certain products, etc — but Netanyahu is making clear that he doesn’t see the sanctions actually having any effect on change Tehran’s feverish bid to build nuclear weapons. ”However forceful our statements, they have not convinced Iran that we are serious about stopping them,” Netanyahu told reporters. “Right now the Iranian regime believes that the international community does not have the will to stop its nuclear programme.” What’s more, Netanyahu said, sanctions have “yet to move its nuclear programme even a millimetre backwards.” Joel Rosenberg [Dr. Ross L. Riggs, Security Consulting Investigations, LLC   www.security-consulting.us GLOBAL SECURITY CONSULTING  GSC21  www.globalsecurityconsulting.us]

A Churchillian Premonition

June 24th, 2012 | Author: Dr. Ross Riggs

  
Dateline: Pre-war Britain 1936

                “Two things, I confess, have staggered me, after a long Parliamentary experience, in these Debates. The first has been the dangers that have so swiftly come upon us in a few years, and have been transforming our position and the whole outlook of the world. Secondly, I have been staggered by the failure of the House of Commons to react effectively against these dangers. That, I am bound to say, I never expected. I would never have believed that we should have been allowed to go on getting into this plight, month by month and year by year, and that even the Government’s own confessions of error would have produced no concentration of Parliamentary opinion and force capable of lifting our efforts to the level of emergency.”[i]

If one can imagine standing on a rooftop on the outskirts of London after the Battle of Britain during the summer and fall of 1940, it may be possible to envision the devastation left by German Luftwaffe. It would take a much closer view to see the real devastation left in the lives of thousands of Britons. How did the politicians who failed to act in 1935, 36, 37, 38, and 39 console themselves when they looked at the carnage they could have, perhaps, prevented? Let us trust that it was more than a ‘shift the blame game.’ If politicians in the United States cannot learn from Mr. Churchill’s remarks in 1935, perhaps they can find the key to self-consolation used by latter British Parliamentarians who heeded not his warnings then; for the day, now, when Iran unleashes its nuclear wrath on civilian Israel or perhaps, the United States.

Air Observer over London

A distasteful medicine, no doubt; but Americans must not be too quick to prescribe such a tonic to their Congressmen if they are not ready to indulge in a spoonful of the nasty elixir themselves.  Every person who does not raise the alarm nor prevail upon their elected representatives to do so must share in the blame of what shall come. It is no longer a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ the madman of Iran will get his destructive tool completed and will seek with the greatest of evil desires to annihilate Israel and, in turn, the Great Satan of America.  When the attack comes, Americans will rise up and proclaim, “Something must be done!” I would say, ‘Sit down; you have already done less than enough.’

I applaud with great enthusiasm those who have raised the banner of alarm and have declared the urgency of these days. I overwhelmingly support our military men and women.
Look back to the world in 1936 when Winston Churchill understood the nature of the time. Here is a brief timeline provided by Holocaust Encyclopedia[ii]:

September 18, 1931
Japan invades Manchuria.

October 2, 1935–May 1936
Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

October 25–November 1, 1936
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.

November 25, 1936
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
Only two ‘shooting wars’ had erupted briefly; one in Manchuria the other in Ethiopia. Fast forward to 2012 and compare it to the timeline NPR provides of the “Arab Spring”[iii]

December 2010 January 2011
Tunisian President toppled after violent demonstrations.
Dissent begins in Egypt (January 2011)

February 2011
Mass protests in Yemen – President promised to step down at the end of his term
Mubarak steps down as Egyptian President
Violence in Bahrain quelled by military intervention from Saudi Arabia
Libya ignites in violence

March 2011
Libya rebels in control –
Syrians rise up against violent Assad regime – Assad begins program of mass murder against civilian dissidents and innocents
NATO and US authorize airstrikes in Libya in attempt to force Gadhafi out

June 2011
Yemeni President Saleh is badly injured in explosion at presidential compound – leaves the country

August 2011
Mubarak on trial
Rebels in Libya enter Tripoli

October 2011
Gadhafi killed
Tunisian elections – Islamic party Ennahda wins

November 2011
Bahrain report shows government tortured dissidents
Muslim Brotherhood – extreme Islamic party takes lead in Egyptian elections

December 2011
5000 Syrians believed murdered by Assad regime since ‘Spring’ began.

June 2012
Mohamed Morsy, of the Egyptian Brotherhood declared the next president of Egypt after receiving 51% of the vote.[iv]

21,435 Syrians believed murdered by Assad regime since ‘Spring’ began.[v]

Currently, Russia is providing tanks and military helicopters to Assad in Syria for “self-defense” according to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.[vi]  Henry Kissinger (Secretary of State under Richard Nixon) described the Syrian civil war as an unfortunate event, a human catastrophe. Russia and Iran have ensconced themselves in the Syrian Civil War backing Assad and leveraging Hamas and the Palestinians to increase their strangle hold on the region, particularly isolating Israel.

Thomas Donnelly writes,

 “Obama has insisted that the ‘tide of war’ in the Middle East is ‘receding.’ It’s not just that American troops have been withdrawn from Iraq, are being more rapidly withdrawn from Afghanistan, or were not employed on the ground in Libya. It’s the President’s belief that they need not – should not – be used again. This is an unrealistic belief.”[vii](Emphasis added)

June 23, 2012 Syrian forces shot down a Turkish jet that was in international air space and some NATO countries are meeting at the request of Turkey to prepare a response to the unprovoked attack. Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi declared the attack to be “unacceptable” and announced that Italy would be part of the NATO meeting with Turkey.[viii]

Twenty-three Hamas rockets were fired into Israel just yesterday (June 23, 2012) bringing the total since Monday to 150 not including the armed incursions and the fire fights between IDF and Hamas forces.

The Russian proffered ‘talks’ for nuclear weapon pull-back with Iran have had no success and Tehran remains recalcitrant about their desire to ‘wipe Israel off the map’ as well as attack and destroy ‘the big Satan’ the United States.

What will it take? A Blitzkrieg across Poland and the opening of camps like Chelmno (Kulmhof) and Auschwitz? A public commitment to “the Final Solution”? (No, wait, we have that already!) Another 9/11?

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.“[ix] 

Oh, but to find in our leaders both in Washington, the states and in each home and family good leaders. There are some. They must associate or they will, as Edmund Burke warns, ‘fall one by one.’ Who will hear Mr. Churchill’s admonition? Who will answer the call? My prayer is that when the events of history record this time, I will be known to have taken my stand together with other good citizens and drawn that line against which evil must not be allowed to cross.

 [Dr. Ross L. Riggs Global Security Consulting a subsidiary of Security Consulting Investigations, LLC www.homelandsecuritynet.com/HSN/   www.globalsecurityconsulting.us]

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[i] Churchill, Winston remarks to the House of Commons, November 1936 as recorded by William Kristol and Jamie Fly in “No Iranian Nukes” The Weekly Standard June 25, 2012

[ii] http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007306

[iii] http://www.npr.org/2012/01/02/144489844/timeline-the-major-events-of-the-arab-spring

[iv] Jerusalem Post on-line June 26, 2012 jpost.com/headlines

[v] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War_%282011%E2%80%93present%29

[vi] Donnelly, Thomas “Obama Fiddles” The Weekly Standard June 25, 2012

[vii] Ibid.

[viii] Jerusalem Post on-line June 26, 2012 jpost.com/headlines

[ix] Burke, Edmond Thoughts on the Cause of the Current Discontents (1770)