First post again to remind you
by Frightened Albanian on Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:22 ami can't see the pan European thread so posting new one. Some insights into Ganley
"The storm is gathering apace, it will present itself with spectacular effect in the cities of the west soon enough,
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Irish Examiner
September 25, 2008 Thursday
Ganley: Mullahs are laughing behind closed doors
SECTION: IRELAND
LENGTH: 582 words
The
anti-Lisbon campaigner, whose company, Rivada Networks, has lucrative
contracts with the US military, warned of the consequences of an
American pullout from Iraq, saying it would hand a "truly historic" victory to the Islamic radicals.
"This
is not Vietnam, it's much more serious," Mr Ganley wrote in the 2006
paper. "Regardless of the historic reasons, the fact remains that Iraq
is the main battleground of Islamic radicalism against the west. The
Islamists themselves have said so plenty of times. They are shortly to
be handed a victory quite unlike any seen for Islamist forces for
centuries."
The knock-on effect would be seen
through the Middle East, he predicted, and a fallback to standard
diplomacy would be of little use.
"As the US and
Europe start yet another round of dialogue with Syria and Iran, the
Mullahs are rolling around laughing behind closed doors - they did not
cave in when we had leverage, now they will declare 'the Emperor has no
clothes'," Mr Ganley added.
Iran
was "near guaranteed" to acquire nuclear weapons with little real
resistance, "save for at worst a few impotent 'look tough' Cruise
missile strikes or 'surgical raids' for the benefit of CNN and Fox News
viewers, even these options being hampered by a delusional Vladimir
Putin happily selling Russian anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran,"
Mr Ganley wrote.
"The fact is that, if Iraq
and Iran were to be tamed and security risks eliminated, full
mobilisation for war would have to be carried out, complete with
drafts, rationing and all of what Churchill referred to as the 'blood,
toil, tears and sweat' that it takes to secure overwhelming victory.
"The
Islamic radicals look at the western world and discern that we are too
'relative', unwilling to sacrifice, decadent, lacking real belief in a
cause, devoid of faith and what they consider too weak to go the
distance."
As the pullout from Iraq commenced, the radicals' confidence would be emboldened, he said.
"The
storm is gathering apace, it will present itself with spectacular
effect in the cities of the west soon enough," Mr Ganley wrote.
"So,
given that the admirably peace-loving, civilised and educated peoples
of the western world have overwhelmingly shown that they do not wish to
join the struggle in which radical Islam would have us engage, what can
we do to offset the risk that they won't have the decency to leave us
alone because we don't want to argue the point their way?" he asked.
One
answer - and the topic of the paper - was for the west to cut its
dependence on Middle Eastern oil and gas. "We may end up discovering
that the recipients of our energy euro and dollars become outright
enemies of everything we stand for."
Mr Ganley
wrote the paper in August 2006 as an addendum to the report on that
year's "Forum on Public Safety in Europe and North America", a
conference his company held in the University of Limerick to discuss
global security issues.
The report was distributed
to a number of governments but not published publicly, according to the
forum's website. However, the paper has since been made available on
Libertas's website.
The
paper came at a time when the White House was awaiting recommendations
from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which reported in December 2006.
The Study Group recommended a phased withdrawal from Iraq and a renewed diplomatic push to halt the violence in the country.
But in the end, US President George W Bush ignored the study group's recommendations and sent more troops to Iraq.
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