America’s Three Sided Fort
Little background, I have always believed and taught my private sector investigation security team members that dead heroes may be good for movie endings but are bad for business.
Other private security team member principles:
1. Remember always get money up front as it is hard to get relatives of dead fools to pay their bills.
2. Never under estimate enemies, potential threats.
3. Avoid unnecessary confrontations.
4. Always stay alert, always be ready and waiting.
5. Always stay between client/s and threat.
6. If necessary provide cover fire to buy time to evacuate client/s from threat/s.
7. Never assume bad guys are dumb and pose only single threats per incident.
8. Everybody gets paid, everybody does their job and everybody comes home.
Guess my farmer’s son logic is showing, what is the point of working for money if you do not get to enjoy benefits from earnings. I have always considered farm work, ranch work, running intelligence / investigations, or providing security equal but different ways of making money.
Learned years ago, does not matter type of work, never work for liars, thieves, fools, people who hire illegal immigrants, or those too blanked up to know they are blanked up.
So when does my work ethic swerve into how a three sided fort threatens America’s national security? Patience, I am getting there. Remember Alamo most legal residents of America have at least heard name.
Alamo, a place where a group of volunteers and a few regulars not seeking personal recognition (no CNN or Fox News crews on scene) took a stand to buy General Sam Houston time to turn untrained volunteers into a one battle one victory army.
So what does providing cover fire to evacuate a client, or volunteers holed up behind crumbling adobe walls of old church to buy Houston time have to do with current national security?
Simple, government’s story is that United States is involved in Iraq to keep terrorists from attacking Americans on American soil.
Story would sound more plausible if American policy makers were using time being bought by America’s public and private warriors in Iraq to one: secure America’s Southern Border (called perimeter in security business). Two rounds up potential terrorists (called policing premises in security business) on American soil.
Problem with story is that American policy makers are not using time being bought with blood and body parts to do either secure America’s perimeter or police America’s premises.
U.S. troops and private security forces could stay in Iraq for a thousand years with little to show for their honorable duty and sacrifices until American policy makers abandon their three sided fort concept for defending America.
As history ridicules those who welcomed a Trojan horse, history will have greater perpetual contempt for American’s greed motivated defenders of foreign policy based on three sided fort.
Perhaps saddest of all combined words is wasted opportunity. Question, statement, and question: Question, would Sam Houston be remembered as a great American-Texan if he had taken a vacation while people at Alamo were dying to buy him time to build an army?
Statement; I am probably one of most easy going people you will ever meet. However, and there always is a however, If my team members take a cigarette break while I am providing them cover fire to evacuate my client, bad guys will be least of their problems.
Question: If America’s political leaders keep ignoring their opportunity to secure America’s perimeter and police America’s premises; an opportunity being paid for with blood and body parts, what will be legacy of America’s elected officials?
First thing one learns in covert uncivil world is no two bad guys are exactly identical. Iraq and Iran are different predators.
Iraq did not have ability to reach out and strike America; so Saddam lured America into a predictable urban guerrilla war that eventually led to getting caught in middle of a religious theology based civil war.
Iran has ability to reach out and strike America’s homeland, maybe not with missiles but certainly with Hezbollah sleeper cells already on American soil. These groups can count on logistical support from staging areas in Latin America primarily Mexico, and specifically Monterrey, Mexico.
A porous southern border, missing side of America’s three sided fort, will allow logistical opportunities terrorist groups will most certainly exploit.
How many terrorist cells are on American soil, only God and terrorists have that answer. How can anyone believe government policy makers who are still operating under premise that there are only twelve million illegal immigrants on American soil? Actual number of illegal immigrants on American soil is closer to forty million.
If a government cannot keep up with people who are for most part not trying to hide, can same government possibly know how many terrorist cells America’s three sided fort has allowed into America?
Think Custer had a bad day or 911 were horrific days? Just wait until you, your family, friends, and beloved America experience national security policies depending on a three sided fort.
