Honor… Has America Lost All Honor

1. Honor… Has America Lost All Honor? allan@1plus1equals2.com 1plus1equals2.com

2. History is replete with massive failures of leadership and finger-pointing that always follow major military or political debacles. We often point out that the lens of history is frequently not resolved into sharp focus for a long time. This is going to be an exception. This massive failure to lead is on the scale of a Neville Chamberlain and his famous “Peace in our Time” quote. That’s not hyperbole. But, as the killings and carnage in Afghanistan are only just beginning, actions can still take place to completely turn the situation around or can ameliorate the rather dire projected outcomes yet to come.

3. What we do as a nation in the next few days will forever cement our place in history. The title of this article is Honor. Something we seemed to CEO of McDowell Digital Media, Inc. have lost in the last generation as our leaders focus on the issue de jour as they became willing slaves to the next news cycle. Two things I want to point out today to our fellow Patriots:

4. 1. It has been in our national interest to base large numbers of soldiers in Japan, Germany, South Korea, Italy, and other nations since the Second World War to thwart our enemy’s ability to invade, influence, and conquer nations and territory which we believe are vital to our national interest. We also are there for reasons of stability and logistics. We are saying to our enemies, we are the good guys, we will defend our friends…be warned. You can depend on our Honor and power whether we are there for selfish or altruistic reasons. Biden was wrong. We were in Afghanistan for reasons of vital national interest. It was our execution that was `terribly wrong.

5. 2. There was a long time when our enemies feared us and our friends supported us unconditionally. We ended piracy as was practiced by the Berbers in 1805. We sought to buy them off previously, but their demands became ever greater and the belief that they were powerful and impervious to interdiction and defeat was never part of their calculus. Eventually, our Marines fought and won their first foreign war that said to the world, no more piracy and, even more importantly…. America has become a world leader. Thus began a proud tradition of Honor and just power that endured until we lost our way during the “Police Action” in Vietnam.

6. When we understand how to wage just war, you no longer have continual angst about your actions. If you have honor, your actions become preordained. You don’t leave people behind, you don’t break your promises and you don’t put your people in a position of danger unless you carefully weigh the mission, the consequences, and the costs and are willing to stay the course regardless. It is in this specific paragraph that our country has failed. We use euphemistic terms like optics, coalitions of the willing, deconflicting, and other somewhat nebulous terms that infer nothing but yet become part of our lexicon of thinking. It bears repeating that when you unsheathe your sword, it becomes bloody.

7. The degree of blood is immaterial. In America, we somehow think the death of a hundred, a thousand, or even a million is somehow different from the death of a single person. We depend on our enemies to fight fair, think logically, and otherwise comport themselves as we do. Our enemies use our fear of mass casualties to emasculate us. They hide among the non-combatants like cockroaches and rarely meet us on the battlefield in a straight-up fight. The concept of the slow bleed started in Vietnam and has continued ever since. We will not win another necessary war ever again until we learn that lesson.

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