How our enemy sees America | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This article originally appeared in the Beaufort Observer.

    We have said it before here: Barack Obama is losing the war in Afghanistan and we have also reported that our Congressman

    Walter B. Jones, Jr. supports the pullout of American troops from Afghanistan. Now we learn how the enemy views all this. On the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holiday that commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Ishmael, my colleague Ahmad Majidyar pointed me to this statement he translated from a Taliban website:

    For the past ten years, our brave Mujahedeen have been engaged in jhad against a brutal and invading enemy for a noble cause, and are rendering sacrifices on a daily basis. And with God's help, they have pushed the wealthiest and most arrogant power of the world to the brink of collapse. They have killed and wounded thousands of their troops and inflicted permanent disabilities and mental disorders on many others.

    As a result, their people have risen up, are protesting, and the American and Western nations are no longer ready to extend the Afghanistan war and see their soldiers return in coffins. It is only God's Almighty's grace and mercy that He chose us to serve this nation and the Islamic community at this determining and sensitive juncture and defeated the greatest enemy of Islam by our hands.

    President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton may believe they are pursuing "smart diplomacy." But, when it comes to negotiating with the Taliban, we've been down this road before, and it led directly to 9/11. Between the peace talks and the deadlines, Mullah Omar believes the Taliban is on the verge of a great victory. Frankly, ordinary Afghans, not to mention the Iranians, Pakistanis, and Chinese agree. Perhaps Obama and Clinton believe their own spin. If so, they may be the last two on earth who do.

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    Commentary

    We've said it before, but we will continue to say it over and over again as long as American lives are sacrificed for a "no-win" cause in a country half way around the world. At this point the issue is not, as Rep. Jones explains, why we went into Afghanistan, or Iraq for that matter. That's spilled milk...water over the dam. What matter is losing. And we are losing in Afghanistan and there are strong indications that we will lose what we fought for in Iraq when we pull out there and leave it to Iran to have its way with a weak government that cannot defend itself. The same could be said about the Afghanistan government.

    Nearly a year ago Barack Obama telegraphed his plans to pull American troops out of both nations, ready or not. This has played right into the hands of the enemies and will mean that all of the lives lost and devastated in these two conflicts will have been for naught. We find that absolutely intolerable, on both Obama's part and on Jones' part. If we were not going to commit to winning both wars and the peace that followed them we should have pulled out long, long ago.

    We will now reap the whirlwind of what projecting weakness results in. And Barack Obama and Walter B. Jones will have to bear the guilt, blame and consequences of that defeat.

    Not only will they be responsible for the needless sacrifice of American lives, health and treasure, the will most assuredly be responsible for many more as we have to suffer the consequences of evil people in this world miscalculating the will of the American people. Our service-people will have to fight battles they would not have had to fight had we won in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a sad day in America's history.

    To make our position perfectly clear, we will say again: We too favor a pullout from Afghanistan if we are not going to win the war. Either commit to do whatever it takes to win, or get out before the sun goes down tomorrow.