The liberalism has always denied the existence of God and directed us to Darwinism. However, they forgot the survival of the fittest part, which reverses back into God and conservatism.

Our society has a way of rewarding the failure and the loser and penalizing the success and the winner. This kind of attitude has brought down mighty empires of Europe. Now the recent beneficiary is the United States of America.

No it is not just the $700 Billion Dollar Bailout where honorable people taking responsibilities and paying their bills on time are penalized while the irresponsible freeloaders are rewarded, neither am I talking about the auto bailout where just to keep the union and corrupted democrats in power we the tax payer has to sell ourselves into slavery.

I am talking about the Thanksgiving weekend when the world watched in horror, how 10 lightly armed men without any body armor took down the second largest army, the Indian Army, along with countless anti-terrorism commandoes, local and Federal Police and other paramilitary forces, and killed nearly 200 people and maimed another 300, and brought a nation of billion people to its knees.

Of course, the sheer failure of Indian Army brought sympathy and even praise by the media. Our government forgot our war on terror and sent OUR FBI on OUR tax dollars to investigate terrorism in Mumbai as if OUR cities do not need any protection.

While the world was glorifying this colossal failure, there were some 30 US Marines in Afghanistan, who fought against heavily armed numerically superior Taliban and Al Qeada forces and won without any serious injuries. The news never made it to the public as the media was pre-occupied with Mumbai.

I have added the press release to honor the memory of my fellow Marines and my country men who did not seek refuge behind public opinion but served this nation with pride and valor. This is their story.

November 25, 2008

Afghanistan: 30 Marines vs 250 Insurgents - Marines Win(AP)

FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it.

Inshallahshaheeds "friends" are a bunch of chicken shites when faced with our finest and bravest:

“The biggest thing to take from that day is what Marines can accomplish when they’re given the opportunity to fight,” the sniper said. “A small group of Marines met a numerically superior force and embarrassed them in their own backyard. The insurgents told the townspeople that they were stronger than the Americans, and that day we showed them they were wrong.”

During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time and again to intense enemy fire during a critical point in the eight-hour battle for Shewan in order to kill any enemy combatants who attempted to engage or maneuver on the Marines in the kill zone. What made his actions even more impressive was the fact that he didn’t miss any shots, despite the enemies’ rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position.

“I was in my own little world,” the young corporal said. “I wasn’t even aware of a lot of the rounds impacting near my position, because I was concentrating so hard on making sure my rounds were on target.”

After calling for close-air support, the small group of Marines pushed forward and broke the enemies’ spirit as many of them dropped their weapons and fled the battlefield. At the end of the battle, the Marines had reduced an enemy stronghold, killed more than 50 insurgents and wounded several more.

“I didn’t realize how many bad guys there were until we had broken through the enemies’ lines and forced them to retreat. It was roughly 250 insurgents against 30 of us,” the corporal said. “It was a good day for the Marine Corps. We killed a lot of bad guys, and none of our guys were seriously injured.”

Wow, just wow.

Today, exactly one week from the attacks in Mumbai, India.  

We in the United States are more shaken up than the people in India who by now are used to terrorist attacks and bomb blasts in their cities.    But the question we need to ask in the US is what lessons we need to learn from this horrific event and apply in our society? The answer is simple, “Nothing”.

Let us dissect the events and compare them with the scenario in the US, in the sense of how we would have differed in our response.

Intelligence report clearly indicated that our eavesdropping capabilities had recorded the terrorist chatter which had given clear indication as to a seaborne attack into the financial and tourist district of Mumbai. It went on to clarify that it was likely to be carried out by individual or individuals with assault rifles and fragmentation grenades. It also clearly named Taj Hotel as one of the likely targets.   Had this been in the US, our Homeland Security would have raised the level of alert and prepared for this eventuality.

In order to execute such a precision attack, the terrorists must have had a year or more of reconnaissance and surveillance, but somehow that never triggered any attention among the law enforcement or security personnel there. This type of gross negligence is not possible in the United States where even our most careless civilian population would have noticed this type of inappropriate and out-of-ordinary behaviors.

When the first attacks started in the CTS station formerly known as  the Victoria Terminus, the two gunmen with no body armor but in simple soccer jersey and jeans managed to open fire at the passengers. They had calculated and surveyed the Police response time and the arrival and departure of the trains, which itself would lead to more chaos and confusion.

Eye witness report confirmed that the two gunmen laid down suppressive fire alternatively almost as if they are well trained commandoes. In return, however, the Mumbai Police, the CRP (Indian Federal Police) froze, took cover and never even unholstered their weapons. While all this mayhem was going on, the New Delhi Television showed up to make a direct coverage of what they had initially thought was gang violence, until the gunmen successfully walked out of the station unaffected and unscathed and proceeded onto engaging their secondary target location. 

This type of incident will never occur in the United States as the existing violence in our society has made our law enforcement and first responders aware of the necessities to fire back should they see an immediate threat of life. They will never hesitate to respond effectively especially if the perpetrators are without protective body armors.

While the CTS shooting was underway, simultaneous attacks were taking place at multiple locations in Mumbai, including assassination of the Anti-terror Squad Chief and top police officials. This shows the accuracy of the inside information and quality of surveillance by the terrorist.

As the evening proceeded in Mumbai, numerous law enforcement agencies responded, but if anyone observed, most of the first responders were in total disarray. Some Police units responded carrying World War I vintage Lee Enfield bolt action rifles.  They failed to control the situation and more importantly failed to provide recon and intelligence on the terrorists. They kept on reporting that over 100 men with AK47 had attacked numerous locations, while simple visual confirmation should have indicated that roughly no more than 20 individuals with assault rifles and grenades were executing these attacks. 

In this situation most US cities would have responded with their Police SWATs and would have effectively diffused the situation.

However, in Mumbai the authorities responded with the deployment of the Federal Paramilitary Forces BSF and called in the Indian Army and their anti terror special unit the NSG.   NSG was formed in 1985 after the rise of the Sikh terrorism, they are normally armed with H&K Mp5 submachine gun, sig Sauer 9mm pistol, and 12 gauge shotguns. They wear black balaclava and rumor has it that they have trained with other elite anti terrorist units such as the German GSG9 and  the Israelis. However, this time they failed to respond as they could not manage to find a flight from their base in New Delhi and their arrival was delayed by good 12 hours.

In the mean time, the Army units responded along with Indian Navy Commandoes (the ‘Marcos”). The clear lack of leadership among the ‘Marcos”, inter services rivalry,  and  the lack of presence from the civilian authorities created chaos. The Army’s deployment lacked professionalism and showed their unpreparedness for a close quarter battles as most of the conventional units responded with their behemoth FN FAL Rifles instead of something more compact such as a MP 5 or the M4 to effectively execute CQB.

The arrival of the NSG added to the confusion and chaos and made inter services rivalry even more severe. During this entire incident, the civilian authorities were nowhere to be found, there was lack of intelligence and reconnaissance, and the senior military and counter terrorist officers went into hiding at a safe undisclosed location.

Anyone has watched the continual coverage in NDTV would have noticed the different colored uniform personnel running around aimlessly or taking cover.

By the time the situation was fully contained almost 200 innocent people had lost their lives, over 300 innocent people had been injured and thousands had been left with permanent emotional scars which they will live with for the rest of their lives.

Now had this been in the United States, our Police and SWAT would have effectively contained the situation. Had this been where we had to deploy our National Guardsmen or even deploy FBI HRT, they would have functioned effectively under one military authority and our officers would have led from the front. 

As we all know terrorism is a fact of life, and we can delay it, postpone it, but sooner or later we can all be attacked. We as a society need to be constantly vigilant and observe for any unusual behaviors. Our law enforcements should be fast in responding to any and all credible threats.

Our military has been engaged in an asymmetrical warfare since the late 1970’s and we are quite capable of avoiding situations like the one in Mumbai.