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Rules of Engagement in War

Comparing U.S. Strategy with Terrorist Strategy

When one compares

The Rules of Engagement used by the Islamic religious extremists

with

The ways the U.S. and its allies are presently conducting their
so-called "War on Terrorism."

one can easily see why the Islamic Jihad is the clear winner and why the Islamic extremists will continue to be the winner until one of two events occurs:

1) If we continue blindly destroying our environment, and ignoring the changes humans have already set in motion, Global Climate Change will trigger an irreversible disaster that will wipe out a significant portion of the human population.

Global Climate Change is, by far, the most dangerous threat to human survival in all of recorded history. It's also one of the most ignored problems. "The rapture" is not a solution. When you examine the evidence you'll find that "The Rapture" in an unprovable religious fairytale. If you are like most people, you're betting your life and the lives of you family members on the belief that the above statements are not true.

What if you're wrong? Are you willing to bet the lives of your children, your grandchildren, and the future of all humanity on a set of beliefs you learned as a little child? (See the pages titled: Climate Change and Human Survival, Bet to Pot Ratio and Self Interest.

2) We can wake up and end this senseless, self-destruction by taking the straight-foreword steps (detailed in this document) to stop 99.99% all terrorist attacks and do so within a matter of months. We can then shift our focus onto reversing Global Climate Change -- shift the use of about ten billion dollars a year presently used to "Fight Terrorism."

One of the first step is understanding the circumstances and conditions we (individually and collectively) find ourselves facing. (See the pages titled: Global Terrorism - Analysis and Assessment°

Another important step is understanding the psychological underpinnings and the beliefs that are motivating both radical Islam and radical Christianity. As a small step in that direction, please see chart below which compares U. S. War and Rules with Religious Extremists War and Rules.

U. S. War and Rules :

Religious Extremists
War and Rules :

Bush & Company - Overall Strategy

The one with the greatest violence wins.

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Terrorists - Overall Strategy

The entire world is the battlefield. There are no rules, no limits, no restrictions. Everybody is expendable. Kill infidels whenever and where ever possible.

Bush & Company - Beliefs

The Great God Money dominates the beliefs and behaviors of leaders of the Bush-Money war. The theology of fundamentalist Christianity provides the dominant underlying beliefs of those controlling the Bush-Money war. Atheists pretending to be Christian are also a significant factor here. Control is in the hands of those who can "pull the most strings" and/or wield the most brute power.

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Terrorists - Beliefs

The worst sin in all of fundamentalist Islam is to be a non-believer. Other sins such as stealing and murder are lesser sins. In radical Islam, non-belief is punishable by death, and dying while in the act of killing infidels is believed to be an automatic ticket to heaven to be with God and to be rewarded with sexual gratification.

War In Iraq War On Terrorism ...

The War in Iraq Versus The War on Terrorism

A clear distinction needs to be made between the war in Iraq and the Global War on Terrorism. The present war in Iraq has almost nothing to do with ending terrorism. It was a huge tactical blunder. It has created far more problems than it has solved. It has created a huge pool of would-be, suicide bombers. It has increased the number of people who hate America by hundreds of thousands, perhaps even by millions.

Sanity has been replaces by religious insanity. Islamic Jihad now dominates all of Islam. "Resident" Bush has created an all-out religious war. He may still believe he's fighting a conventional war, but the Islamic fundamentalists are waging, to-the-death-of-one-side-or-the-other Islamic Jihad. If billions of humans die, that's OK with them. If the planet, itself, is rendered uninhabitable, that's OK with them. In the Islamic religion there is an equivalent to what in Christianity is called "the rapture." There is no compromise with the enemy.

The evidence indicates that this war, as it is presently being approached, is un-winnable. This website offers an alternative that is a functional way to actually end terrorism. The proposal include here explains, the basic, relatively-simple, relatively-inexpensive steps that, if properly implemented, will end terrorism in a matter of a few months. (See the page titled: Getting Beyond the Impasse -- How to End Terrorism°

Bush & Company - Cooperation

Hidden agendas are the norm.
Secrecy covers everything.

Agencies regularly refused to share information with other agencies. Today, cooperation is grudgingly given. Turf wars are still the norm. Each agency wants to be in charge.

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Terrorists - Cooperation

Terrorist cells act independently. No information is available regarding their level of cooperation.

In their own country, radical Islamic groups are strongly divided. (We commonly hear about the conflict between Sunni and Sheite Muslims.) Like Christianity, each group believes that they are God's chosen people -- selected by God for special favors. Each side will kill those on the other side at the slightest provocation.

Bush & Company - Track Record

The pre 9-11-2001, U.S. government agency failures are dismal. Not only did agencies refuse to share information, they ignored warnings about terrorists plans to hijack and fly commercial airliners into buildings. They even ignored warnings that suspected terrorist were taking flying lessons right here in the United States.

The pretext for invading Iraq was totally false. Reports of dissent were kept secret. "Resident" Bush's personal hatred of Saddam Hussein has been largely ignored in the media.

And the biggest question of all is: "Where were the NORAD jets on the morning of 9-11-2001?"

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Terrorists - Track Record

Al Queda, the Taliban, and other Islamic, religious extremists have created fear and mayhem worldwide.

Bush & Company - The Truth

In the Bush-Money war, the truth is what Mr. Bush and his associates say it is.

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Terrorists - The Truth

For radical Islam, the truth is what the radical Islamic leaders say it is.

The beliefs of each side conflict with the beliefs of the other side. Both sides are willing to ignore all other major, pressing, critical problems such as Global Climate Change and, instead focus on killing those who hold different beliefs.

Bush & Company - Dissent

In the Bush-Money war, dissent is strongly stifled. Anybody who speaks against the party line is labeled a traitor. This is a variation of fundamentalist Christianity's "One-way-my-way -- destroy the opposition -- silence all dissenting voices -- make no compromises.

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Terrorists - Dissent

Open Dissent is punishable by death. Numerous moderates who spoke out against violence have been murdered.

In such a context, lies and illusions rule. The truth is either condemned as heresy, or is considered to be support for the enemy or both. The belief in false, religious illusion are the root cause of the violence on both sides of this controversy. To continue to stifle decent is not only extremely counter productive. It means that we continue to function based on lies and and illusions. Such behavior is guaranteed to continuing the conflict, which, in turn, is guaranteed suicide on both sides.

Bush & Company - Functional Freedom

Freedom to act at one's own discretion is extremely limited. Any action that could bring negative feedback or that is not clearly written in the instruction manuals or clearly spelled out in the "operation's mandate" is done under the potential of losing one's job or being subject to other, personal, negative consequences. One could even be tried for murder and sentenced to long prison terms.

The Bureaucrats demand court-style proof, they demand specific details which are passed up the chain of command. Any authority figure who balks or discounts the information can causes the potential actions to be cancelled.

Any attempt to segregate and study the specific group most likely to hold the terrorists among them is considered racial profiling and subject to Congressional censure and other negative consequences.

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Terrorists - Functional Freedom

Any actions against infidels, no matter how gross, are done for God, and therefore, they are good. Attacking anything, anywhere, at any time is good. They have generalized guidelines such as, "Make big hits." and follow strict, fundamentalist Islamic law. One answers only to his belief in God. Within these guidelines, any behavior is permissible.

Bush & Company - Instructions

Permission to act must come from a fellow government employee who holds a more powerful position in the hierarchy. Acting without authority from someone in position of higher authority is extremely dangerous. Making a decision without that higher authority, could cost a person his job, his career and even result in physical and/or financial punishment.

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Terrorists - Instructions

Beyond their own cell leader, their instructions come directly form God, and that instruction is essentially: "Kill infidels whenever and where ever possible."

Lesson In Absurdity ...

Lesson in Absurdity ---13 Sep 06: Today, a network news program showed an arial recognizance photo taken by the mini-drone, spy-plane showing about thirty to forty terrorists standing in formation in the middle of a dusty, dirty, desert-like area absolutely devoid of any vegetation. The American military had the ability to eliminate every one of these armed agents of mass murder as they stood there, and what did the American military do? They went searching for the person who released the photo to the news media.

So now the American military is still facing those forty religious extremist who have vowed to kill infidels whenever and wherever possible. One of those men could be a future suicide bomber that kills one of your family members.

Why are these men allowed to continue killing Americans? Because the American "Rules of Engagement" prohibit American forces from launching an attack in a cemetery. That flat area in the middle of nowhere was technically be classified as a cemetery.

Let me list for you the terrorists rules of restriction:
( NONE -- NADA -- ZERO --ZIPPO When working for GOD, there are no restrictions. Anything and everything is permissable. )

How to get beyond this type of absurd belief barrier is discussed in detail in this proposal. (See the page titled: Getting Beyond the Impasse -- How to End Terrorism°

Bush & Company - Violence

Unauthorized violence is punishable. Publicly, human lives are given priority. Privately, the law of expendable humans applies.

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Terrorists - Violence

For radical Islam, violence is a way of life. The lives of individual people including their own, are expendable.

Bush & Company - Offense / Defense

With regard to terrorism, the U.S. and its allies are fighting a defensive war only. Bush and company are taking defensive positions only. They ignore the root causes of the war.

They also ignore basic law of conflict:
It's impossible
to win a war from a
defensive position only.

See the Section titled: Offense-Defense.°

They also ignore the basic law of
human behavior:
People always
act in a manner
that they perceive to be
in their own best interest.

See the Section titled: Self Interest.°

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Terrorists - Offense / Defense

Religious extremists are almost totally focused on the side of attacking the enemy. Their own safety is only a function of carrying out successful mission. If they die in the process, that's good.

The Iraq war has produced a huge pool of violent militants who are taking orders from God -- Kill infidels whenever and where ever possible.

In radical Islam, dying while in the act of killing infidels is believed to be an automatic ticket to heaven to be with God and receive the gift of sexual fulfillment. (Do you recall the story about the twenty-six virgins -- or was it sixty-four virgins that was being told about the terrorists involved in the 9-11-2001 attack?)

Bush & Company - Legal Procedures

Cumbersome at best, and totally dysfunctional as a means of dealing with religious fanatics. Intuition, field observations, and anything else that does not fit inside the Bush team's "Box of Rules" is simply ignored.

Thus, investigations are severely hampered and terrorist that could easily be eliminated are allowed to simply walk away to kill again later. The argument for this self-destructive behavior is "If we don't follow the rules, we'll be just like them." (See the page titled: Getting Beyond the Impasse -- How to End Terrorism.

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Terrorists - Legal Procedures

There are none. On-the-spot executions are commonplace. Dead people are buried, not examined (to find the killer). It is better to kill an ally than to leave an enemy alive.

Bush & Company - A conventional War

The Bush-Money war is filled with restriction and rules. See the above headings called: Instructions. and Legal Procedures. The Bush-Money war demands Court-room style proof -- it demands tests, and trial runs. Details are extremely important Functional Freedom is highly restricted. On the Bush-Money side of the war, jobs and careers are always on the line.

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Terrorists - A religious War

The Islamic fanatics are fighting a pure, no-holds-barred, religions Jihad. There are no compromises. They take no prisoners. You are with them or you are dead.

Bush & Company - Technology

With the Bush team, money flows like water, but only to their cronies. Technology is impressive, but commonly not used in essential circumstances (see: A Lesson In Absurdity) and overly wasted in others.

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Terrorists - Technology

Technology is minimal and used very effectively. Very basic tools have been and still are being used with incredible efficiency.

Bush & Company - Costs

In terms of cost, anti-terrorism has been and still is a multi-billion dollar fiasco. Last year, the U.S. federal government, alone, spent four billion dollars on anti-terrorist activities and they propose to continue to do this each year, indefinitely.

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Terrorists - Cost

In terms of costs, the attacks against non-Muslims have cost a few oil-rich middle-eastern multi-millionaires a few million dollars.

In Afghanistan, illegal drugs provide the Taliban with an abundance of money. The illicit drug trade is intimately tied to and pays for much of Islamic jihad.

There are no known consequences for future terrorists actions.

Bush & Company - Supporting Allies

The Bush-Money war is filled with restriction and rules. They do not support their allies in the field. Instead, they demand proof, tests, details, and trial runs. They are long on promises, short on action.

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Terrorists - Supporting Allies

No information

Bush & Company - Scapegoating

When something goes wrong, Bush and company look for someone to blame. The guy who takes the blame is kicked out and the problem is declared to be solved.

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Terrorists - Scapegoating

No information.

Bush & Company - Time Table

Everything is on a specific time table; budgets, logistics, and political elections rule everything.

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Terrorists - Time Table

No Specific time table. Hide. Wait. Attack when the opposition is distracted. Make big hit's. The following quote from Osama bin Laden describes their timetable: "This conflict started thousands of years ago, and will continue until eternity."***

*** The Muslim-Christian war started with the Christian Crusades when the Roman Catholic Church leaders sent thousands of soldiers to rescue the holy lands from "the infidels." Those who practiced Islam were considered by the Christian church to be the infidels.

NORAD Jets NORAD Jets ...

On 9-11-2001,

Why Were the NORAD Jets Grounded?

NORAD -- North American Aerospace Defense Command

The most sinister aspect of the World Trade Center attack is the fact that no fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the hijacked, commercial airliners. Four, commercial jet passenger planes were in the air for over an hour after being hijacked. But not one interceptor was scrambled to stop them. Why were the NORAD planes grounded? Who ordered the planes grounded?

You may recall the NORAD response a few years ago (October 25, 1999) when a famous golfer, Payne Stewart, was killed in a airplane accident. He and five others on a small, private Lear-35 jet took off from Orlando, Florida heading for Dallas, Texas. Shortly after takeoff the plane went off- course and failed to respond to any radio calls. Within minutes NORAD fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the plane. In less that fifteen minutes from the first report of trouble, a fighter jet was flying along side the wayward airplane. This was simply a flight that was off-course and had lost radio contact. There was no sense of any sinister implications, and still, in less than fifteen minutes, the plane was intercepted.

On September 11th, 2001, four, separate, commercial airliners went off-course at the same time. All four turned off their transponders. All four refused to answer radio calls. It was obvious that the four commercial jetliners had been simultaneously hijacked.

The context of this event was equally sinister. First, terrorist attacks were being systematically carried out around the world. Second, America was the most hated enemy of those responsible for terrorist violence. And third, U. S. government officials had ample warnings that terrorists intended to attack American targets.

Given the event and its context, the sinister implications of four commercial jet liners being simultaneously hijacked were astronomical. Yet in the face of all this evidence, no NORAD interceptor jets were scrambled. The hijacked planes were in the air for over an hour and still the NORAD jets remained grounded. WHY?

Any time a plane is reported off-course, it's standard operating procedure to scramble the NORAD jets and intercept the plane to see what's happening. It doesn't take an order from the President, or Congress, or the Judiciary to do this. It's done automatically! It's standard procedure. But it does take a special order to make those interceptors stand down. It does take a special order to stop those interceptors from doing their job.

Whoever gave that order was part of a government plot to allow the 9-11 tragedy to occur. Someone, acting in an official capacity as an agent of the United States government, participated in creating, or at minimum allowed, the 9-11-2001 tragedy to occur. WHO GAVE THAT ORDER? Why is this question not being asked and answered?

"The Buck Stops Here"

Former President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk in the White house that read "The Buck Stops Here." The saying derives from the slang expression "pass the buck" which means pass the responsibility on to someone else.

There is still doubt about who gave the "stand down" order to NORAD on September 11, 2001, but there is no doubt about who is responsible for covering up the name of the person who gave that order.

When George Jr. is asked a tough question he responds with, "I answer to a higher power." By his actions, one has to ask if it's really a higher power he is answering to. But when, we all know that when someone is conned by those peddling evil, they simply don't know up from down. And besides, when someone is standing on his head, which way is up?

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