You must understand they are playing the long game … they are patient the way cancer is patient. -
Troy Carico I’ve seen the enemy up close … coffee-breath close, not sanitized through a remote monitor screen in some cushy Pentagon operations center.
I saw him in the Hindu Kush, wearing the uniform I helped put on his back, carrying the rifle I taught him to shoot, eating the chow I shared with him –
only to have him slip out at night to plant IEDs (improvised explosive device) for his Taliban brothers using the very gear for which Uncle Sam paid.- Daytime? They called us “mentor-sahib,” smiling just enough to keep the paychecks coming.
- Nighttime? Green-on-blue (insider) attacks, “friendly fire” happening...
That’s taqiyya – a
Shia doctrine that explicitly permits lying about one’s faith to advance Islam or protect oneself from danger – in action...
- This was not a “lone wolf.”
- Lone wolves don’t have an entire global ideology whispering in their ear that deceiving the infidel is not just permitted, it’s pious...
I buried brothers because of these cretins. Good men – fathers, husbands, sons – gunned down by the very soldiers they were trying to help...