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09-15-03, 05:55 AM
09-12-2003
War in the South - Military Incursions, Questionable Loyalties
Part 3 in a Series
By Roger Moore
“We don’t want the money, we want the land. We want it back.”
The land in question stretches from the contiguous border of Texas, up through the Oklahoma Panhandle, through southwestern Wyoming, across Nevada and Utah, on to California and back down through Arizona and New Mexico.
That statement is on the cover of the September 1997 issue of Hispanic magazine.
That I’ve even raised these questions, in a military context, almost sounds alarmist, if not for the stated goals of the Fox and Zedillo administrations in Mexico and our own homegrown insurgents of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (or MEChA for short).
Viewed through the lens of Fourth Generation Warfare and Mao Tse-tung’s classic On Guerilla Warfare though, I believe we’re watching the pieces move into place for our own, 21st century Civil War and possibly a follow-on war to destroy America as we know it.
“The Strategic Defensive: The insurgents will concentrate primarily on building political strength” – From Col. T.X. Hammes, “The Evolution of War: The Fourth Generation, ” Marine Corps Gazette, September 1994.
Identity politics and race are center stage right now. A recent investigation by FrontPageMagazine.com (“The MEChA Whitewash”, by columnist Lowell Ponte, Sept. 2, 2003) lays out some very compelling arguments surrounding California Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante and his fellow Mechistas throughout the country. In a previous FrontPageMagazine.com article of Aug. 11,2003, Ponte revealed that Bustamante at one point contemplated allowing the recall of Governor Gray Davis but not allowing a vote to replace him, effectively staging a coup d’etat in California. The same California that is home to:
* The fifth largest economy in the world;
* One-third of the Marine Corps combat and support forces (four bases);
* The Army's National Training Center;
* The Air Force’s Ninth Reconnaissance Squadron and Edwards AFB/NASA (six bases)
* One half of the U.S. Pacific Fleet;
* The third largest producer of United States oil supplies.
“Military action will be limited to harassment attacks and selected, politically motivated assassinations” – From Col. T.X. Hammes, “The Evolution of War: The Fourth Generation, ” Marine Corps Gazette, September 1994.
Completely forgotten in this battle are the Indian borderlands.
Just 225 miles west of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and 150 miles south of Phoenix, lays the Tohono O'odham Nation. This reservation of 13,000 people lies right in the middle of the shifting illegal emigrant choke point.
From a description in The Washington Times last September, Tohono O'odham sounds more like Najaf, Iraq, than an American locality. The article quoted Detective Sgt. David Cray, head of the Tohono Police Department's anti-drug unit:
“They've put people on the hills to act as lookouts and use portable solar panels to power their communications equipment, they have powerful four-wheel-drive vehicles and are under orders not to stop – to shoot their way through if they have to.”
Then eight months later, the newspaper reported that Mexican soldiers accompanied by a military helicopter had crossed five miles into our territorial border. The Mexican troops fired on U.S. Border Patrol officers near Ajo, Ariz., knocking out the rear and back driver's side window. According to a report in The Sierra Times federal officials confirmed this “act of War.”
Mexican officials later explained that the soldiers “got lost” and crossed the frontier by accident.
Imagine the outcry from the international community and our own liberals if a unit from the 4th Infantry Division “got lost” and opened fire on an outpost of Mexican Federales, or the soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division “got lost” in Canada and shot their way out.
President Bush in a speech to the American Legion on Aug. 26 reaffirmed his willingness to confront terrorism around the world. But significantly absent yet again was any mention of controlling our own borders, no mention of hiring more Bureau of Immigration and Citizenship Enforcement/Border Patrol agents.
Are the pleas for reinforcements of state and local law enforcement along our border states falling on deaf ears? Neither was there any mention of properly equipping these agents who encounter Mexican military units armed with machine guns, night-vision gear and GPS units.
Our refusal to recognize and deal comprehensively with this problem goes beyond the White House. Our ideological blinders – both liberal and conservative – have destroyed our common sense. Two years after 9/11, we continue to disregard the warning signs of the impending terrorist tsunami.
September 11th was merely the first big wave.
Have we forgotten already?
Footnote: The previous two parts of this series were “The War On Our Southern Border,” DefenseWatch, Aug. 11, 2003, and “War in the South: Guarding Our Flanks,” DefenseWatch, Aug. 28, 2003.
Roger Moore is a Contributing Editor of DefenseWatch. He can be reached at rmoore_dw@yahoo.com.
Part 1 in a Series
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch%20Archive.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=192&rnd=908.7238174525031
Part 2 in a Series
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch%20Archive.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=202&rnd=978.8689061979243
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=195&rnd=57.91629732187531
Sempers,
Roger
:marine:
War in the South - Military Incursions, Questionable Loyalties
Part 3 in a Series
By Roger Moore
“We don’t want the money, we want the land. We want it back.”
The land in question stretches from the contiguous border of Texas, up through the Oklahoma Panhandle, through southwestern Wyoming, across Nevada and Utah, on to California and back down through Arizona and New Mexico.
That statement is on the cover of the September 1997 issue of Hispanic magazine.
That I’ve even raised these questions, in a military context, almost sounds alarmist, if not for the stated goals of the Fox and Zedillo administrations in Mexico and our own homegrown insurgents of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (or MEChA for short).
Viewed through the lens of Fourth Generation Warfare and Mao Tse-tung’s classic On Guerilla Warfare though, I believe we’re watching the pieces move into place for our own, 21st century Civil War and possibly a follow-on war to destroy America as we know it.
“The Strategic Defensive: The insurgents will concentrate primarily on building political strength” – From Col. T.X. Hammes, “The Evolution of War: The Fourth Generation, ” Marine Corps Gazette, September 1994.
Identity politics and race are center stage right now. A recent investigation by FrontPageMagazine.com (“The MEChA Whitewash”, by columnist Lowell Ponte, Sept. 2, 2003) lays out some very compelling arguments surrounding California Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante and his fellow Mechistas throughout the country. In a previous FrontPageMagazine.com article of Aug. 11,2003, Ponte revealed that Bustamante at one point contemplated allowing the recall of Governor Gray Davis but not allowing a vote to replace him, effectively staging a coup d’etat in California. The same California that is home to:
* The fifth largest economy in the world;
* One-third of the Marine Corps combat and support forces (four bases);
* The Army's National Training Center;
* The Air Force’s Ninth Reconnaissance Squadron and Edwards AFB/NASA (six bases)
* One half of the U.S. Pacific Fleet;
* The third largest producer of United States oil supplies.
“Military action will be limited to harassment attacks and selected, politically motivated assassinations” – From Col. T.X. Hammes, “The Evolution of War: The Fourth Generation, ” Marine Corps Gazette, September 1994.
Completely forgotten in this battle are the Indian borderlands.
Just 225 miles west of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and 150 miles south of Phoenix, lays the Tohono O'odham Nation. This reservation of 13,000 people lies right in the middle of the shifting illegal emigrant choke point.
From a description in The Washington Times last September, Tohono O'odham sounds more like Najaf, Iraq, than an American locality. The article quoted Detective Sgt. David Cray, head of the Tohono Police Department's anti-drug unit:
“They've put people on the hills to act as lookouts and use portable solar panels to power their communications equipment, they have powerful four-wheel-drive vehicles and are under orders not to stop – to shoot their way through if they have to.”
Then eight months later, the newspaper reported that Mexican soldiers accompanied by a military helicopter had crossed five miles into our territorial border. The Mexican troops fired on U.S. Border Patrol officers near Ajo, Ariz., knocking out the rear and back driver's side window. According to a report in The Sierra Times federal officials confirmed this “act of War.”
Mexican officials later explained that the soldiers “got lost” and crossed the frontier by accident.
Imagine the outcry from the international community and our own liberals if a unit from the 4th Infantry Division “got lost” and opened fire on an outpost of Mexican Federales, or the soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division “got lost” in Canada and shot their way out.
President Bush in a speech to the American Legion on Aug. 26 reaffirmed his willingness to confront terrorism around the world. But significantly absent yet again was any mention of controlling our own borders, no mention of hiring more Bureau of Immigration and Citizenship Enforcement/Border Patrol agents.
Are the pleas for reinforcements of state and local law enforcement along our border states falling on deaf ears? Neither was there any mention of properly equipping these agents who encounter Mexican military units armed with machine guns, night-vision gear and GPS units.
Our refusal to recognize and deal comprehensively with this problem goes beyond the White House. Our ideological blinders – both liberal and conservative – have destroyed our common sense. Two years after 9/11, we continue to disregard the warning signs of the impending terrorist tsunami.
September 11th was merely the first big wave.
Have we forgotten already?
Footnote: The previous two parts of this series were “The War On Our Southern Border,” DefenseWatch, Aug. 11, 2003, and “War in the South: Guarding Our Flanks,” DefenseWatch, Aug. 28, 2003.
Roger Moore is a Contributing Editor of DefenseWatch. He can be reached at rmoore_dw@yahoo.com.
Part 1 in a Series
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch%20Archive.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=192&rnd=908.7238174525031
Part 2 in a Series
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch%20Archive.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=202&rnd=978.8689061979243
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=195&rnd=57.91629732187531
Sempers,
Roger
:marine: