Why It is Imperative that America Fail in Iraq.
Martin C. Boire
www.TruthForUs.com
July 30, 2008

It is critical to some that America be forced to fail in Iraq. A failure would create many positive results for certain interests and people. The following is my estimation of these interests.

Interest #1: The Pacification of America
It is important to many people and interests in America to pull the eagle’s talons and merge America and Americans into their world community. They believe in the world community they are slowly constructing more than they do individual nations.

If America can be forced to fail in Iraq, our shame while overtake our confidence. Textbooks and teachers will instruct this generation and the next that we were wrong, and that we failed. They will teach that withdrawal saved countless lives, and that those who advocated staying-the-course wasted countless lives and would have continued to do so for naught.

Having forced failure and thereby created a situation in which they are right de facto, it will appear that their advice and views should be followed in other matters as well.

It will be used as proof that America can only succeed when it acts in close concert with the world community. That go-it-alone “adventurism” or “intervention” is unsuccessful. That we can avoid such costly mistakes in the future by signing up fully to the U.N. version of world cooperation and use of force. (Afghanistan is OK because there we are part of a collectivist NATO operation, which such interests view as more of a SWAT team police operation than a national war.)

People and interests who advocate that it is best for nations not to go it alone in the world also necessarily believe that it best for individuals not to go it alone within their countries.

The failure will be thus be used as proof to reinforce the correctness of these interests’ domestic positions that everything which is done is best done as part of a collective group. It will be used to convince people that following their vision of nationalized healthcare, employment, child care, and the like is the best way for people to personally go. And since nations don’t matter in and of themselves, (they are just corporate divisions) then borders and immigration don’t matter (it’s just employees moving around among company divisions).

Interest #2: Selling Political Ideologies and Visions
America has always been a land of competing ideologies advocating their visions for how the country ought to go about doing things. The tangible successes and failures of these visions convince people to follow or ignore particular ideologies advocating them. Nothing dissuades and memorializes like failure. Nothing succeeds and energizes like success of victory.

It is therefor a political necessity for the ideology that opposed the war to endeavor to force its failure. It is a political necessity for ideologies at odds with those currently supporting the war to distinguish themselves by opposing the war (otherwise questions like “why you?” and “what’s the difference?” come up; so they take a position of opposition just to be recognizably different and present a choice for voters and for no other reason.)

Interest #3: Our Military Cannot Produce Success
Certain people and interests believe that the military is inherently bad. Nothing succeeds like success, and so our military cannot be allowed to succeed. We cannot be allowed to have an instance that causes us to believe that our military can produce a success. These people and interests believe that success in the world cannot be produced through military action. It is produced only through dialogue and knitting oneself into the international order.

A success in Iraq would result in American pride and confidence in both our nation and our military. A success in Iraq would prove that we can invade, remove a strongman, empower the people with a new system of self-control, and leave as friends set to work together as two nations in the future. If we fail in Iraq America will not go to war for a long long time. The bitterness of the loss in blood and treasure will endure for decades. Our confidence will be sapped as it was after Vietnam. They will bill it as another Vietnam.

These people and interests like our military for show, and do not believe in actually using it for our nation’s particular interest. Doing so is incompatible with working within the world order. It is OK to use the military for “peacekeeping” in the Balkans, Somalia, or in the future Darfur. But not for national protection. They therefore defund it as unnecessary. In this view America is just one subsidiary company within a world corporation. Competing companies are no longer needed or wanted. One corporate roof for the world; one roof over each subsidiary.

As of mid-2008 it is fairly clear that America has just about finished succeeding in Iraq, and is in the finishing stages of creating a stable friend. Pulling out before the completion of that success will likely leave a security vacuum, cause civil disruption and perhaps implosion or civil war, and leave no history or facts to disprove the pull out. Those who are presently supporting staying the course to final victory will never be able to objectively prove it could have been won. A forced failure will remove their ability to factually create that proof.

Interest #4: Mistakes Are to Be Aborted.
Regarding Iraq, certain interests and people fixate on their belief that we got into Iraq by mistake. They relentlessly brand Iraq as mistake, not an opportunity regardless of its origins.

Many of these people are also of the mindset in other areas that if something happens by mistake it must be aborted, that it is always alright to do so, and that there is never any reason not to. The consequence is that no one can ever physically see the wondrous result that what was lost.

Inconsistency is the hallmark of people who think this way. And the inconsistency here is that these people also love the U.N. and assert that the U.S. should only use its power consistent with the U.N. and its permissions.

But the U.N. rules require that America to see the job through in Iraq. As Tony Blair bluntly pointed out regarding the rules at the beginning: “You break it, you fix it.”

Interest #5: Bush Cannot Be Allowed to Win
This reason is purely personal. It is does not originate from a belief. It is simply the bind desire to make George Bush wrong, regardless of valor and the sacrifices invested by our soldiers for the real objective of the nation.
Here, Bush is close to final victory and thus being right. So it has to be personalized and snatched away from him. U.S. interests, reputation, success, primacy, and military capability are not at play in this reason.
If Iraq succeeds, Bush wins, everyone in the media and politics who has railed against him regarding Iraq will have been proven wrong.
Therefore it is critical to force America to fail in Iraq and thereby establish factually forever that Bush was wrong.
If this happens, it will be forever debated whether America could have won had we continued on. And the other side will be left with only making hypothetical arguments against the established fact of failure.

Interest #6: The Goal of Racial Islam on Par with the West
Many interests and people believe everyone should be equal. Why should Iran and other radicals be kept down by us. They don’t mean to hurt us. They don’t mean what they say. They are just reacting to what we do. It is we who are provoking them. If we just leave them alone they will be our friends. This view will ultimately allow Iran and radicals to control the region. They will organize and arm the region as a co-equal to the West. Our kids will die in the ensuing mess.

Interest #7: Something Good Cannot Come from Something Bad.
There are many people and interests within America who do not like America as it was created and configured. America is not good. Its values have been bad and need to be changed. The views and actions by these people are amply spelled elsewhere by them and their opposers, and I need not elaborate on them here.

For present purposes, the result of their beliefs is that because America is not good, America cannot go out into the world and tell other people what they should do. America is not morally correct and therefore cannot act. It is not worthy. It should take others’ advice and do it their way, not our way.

If and when empowered in this democracy, and thus able to control its national decisions, it will be important to implement those beliefs. So the war, a forced imposition of ourselves on another, is inherently wrong and will be made to fail. And by doing so at this junction that failure will seem as though it was inevitable due to our wrongness.

Forcing us to fail in Iraq will corrupt our soul, sap our strength, and make us more ripe for social control from within. And the social changes desired within America has already been announced by these persons and interests.

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It turns out my family has a connection to the Iwo Jima Memorial Statue. This connection is through my father, Harold A. Boire, a former Presidential Appointee through several administrations as a Regional Director of the NLRB.

The Iwo Jima Statue is actually properly called the Marine Corps War Memorial, and is near the Arlington National Cemetery. The memorial is dedicated to all personnel of the United States Marine Corps have died defending this nation 1775.

During my life my father now and then talked about things he had done, one of them related to this. So on August 4, 1985 I wrote him:

“Once you told me the story about how during to work in D.C. you saw a the minoring newspaper with the picture of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and told the Congressman you were working for that it would make a great national monument. For the sake of family history, I would like you to take some time and put all of this down in writing for me with as much detail as you can. I think that this is something important”

On August 12, 1995, I got a writing back from him recounting this as follows:

“I must mention about the only bright idea I ever had in my lifetime. It so happens that I was working for Congressman Joe Hendricks (D-Florida) in 1945 as his Administrative Assistant. On the morning of March 1, 1945 I was walking to work, reading the Washington Post morning newspaper. As I walked along (I lived on Capitol Hill in back of the Supreme court Building) and I noticed on the front page the Joe Rosenthal picture of of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima Island. I thought immediately what a striking picture and what a monument it would make. I would judge this was about 8:30 A.M. when I was walking to work. As soon as the Congressman came into the office about 10 or 10:30 A.M. I showed the newspaper to him and commented what a great monument it would make. He immediately asked me to have a bill prepared establishing the monument, so that he could drop it in the “Hopper” when the House of Representatives convened at Noon - - so that no other Congressman would get the jump on it ahead of him.

The bill as prepared and the Congressman dropped it in the Hopper when the House convened. The Bill is H.R. 2420, 79th Congressman 1st Session. He hit the newspapers etc with it, and received several calls from other Congressman asking if they could join in as well as in the Senate. Some Senator filed a companion bill but forget who it was. It was filed at a later date. Joe was first.

I do not recall what Committee it was referred to, but I do know that in due time the Committee held a hearing in the House on it and it was decided to defer action on it until the end of the war.

I then lost track of the Legislation. Suffice to say that today the monument has been erected and it is located not too far from the Memorial Bridge near the Arlington Cemetery entrance.”

Harold A. Boire

His letter to the Library of Congress stated, and provides a few more details:

“3905 Pearl Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33611
February 19, 1985

Library of Congress
Washington, D. C. 20540

Attention: Reference Service

Sir:

About March 17, 18, or 19, 1945, the famous Rosenthal photograph of the U. 8. Marines raising the American Flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima appeared in a Washington, D. C. newspaper.

At that time I was the Administrative Assistant to Congressman Joe Hendricks (Democrat from Florida). That morning when I saw the photograph I immediately showed it to Congressman Hendricks and suggested that it would make a great national monument of World War II.

He asked that I have a bill prepared immediately so that he could introduce it in the House of Representatives when it convened at noon. The bill was prepared and Congressman Hendricks introduced it that same day. It so happens that the photograph which appeared in the Washington newspaper was not too clear and I believe in describing the flag raising in the bill it stated “four Marines”. A later clarification of the photograph disclosed that there were five (5) marines in the flag raising. Congressman Hendricks did not want to reintroduce the bill (because other Congressmen were starting to join in and he wanted the credit to be the first Congressman, including Senators, to introduce the bill) so he wondered how it could be corrected without having to reintroduce it. I believe it was corrected the next day or two by a “star” copy or something to that affect - but the bill still carried the original date it was introduced in the House. Congressional hearings were subsequently held on the bill but it was decided to wait until the end of World War II before final action would be taken.

I later lost track of what happened to the proposed legislation; however, we know today this U. S. Marine Corps War Memorial is now near the National Cemetery in Arlington. One thing is clear is that Congressman Hendricks was the first to think of making the Rosenthal photograph of the U. S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima a national monument.

Would it be possible to obtain a copy of the HR bill, and the “star” copy, which Congressman Hendricks introduced the day it appeared in the Washington paper? If so, I would appreciate if it were sent to me.

Thanking you, I am”

Harold A. Boire

Work began on the bronze memorial in 1951, four years before I was born.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially dedicated the statue on November 10, 1954, which was the 179th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps.

My father’s letter to me was accompanied by his letter to the Library of Congress, a copy of the bill which they send him, and a photograph of he and his mother beside the monument.

A PDF of his letter to me appears here. LetterToMe
A PDF of his letter to Library of Congress appears here. LetterToLibCong
A PDF of the bill he wrote (HR 2420, 79th Congress) appears here. BillHR2420
A jpeg of the photo of him at the monument appears here. PhotoFront&Back

A 2MB high res of the photo appears here. BoirePhoto

Where some see mistakes, others see opportunity that should be nourished.

The first view is backward-looking and the glass is half full.  The second view is forward- looking and the glass is half full and can be made entire full.

The first view is consistent with the attitude that a mistaken pregnancy should aborted.  Quit and leave.  No responsibility.

The second view is consistent with the belief  that a mistake is meant to become something wonderful and good.   Stick with it and see it through.  Take responsibility.

Whining over how you got yourself into a situation has little to do with taking stock of where you are, what you have, and what you can make out of it.   When 3M made a mistake in searching for a particular adhesive and ended up with a tacky gooey one, they didn’t whine and mewl about how they got there; they turned it into Post-It® notes.

The point in Iraq is now that we are there, what can we make out of it? 

I know there are those who are psychologically disposed to see every glass as half empty.  Who always want someone else to do something, to fix something, to create something, to handle the problem for them.  But real men and women do it themselves.   And to those winners smart enough to see every glass as half full, I posit that Iraq is an opportunity to show that:

• We are worth having a friends.
• We are trustworthy.
• We will stick it out with them for their benefit.
• We are dependable.
• We are loyal.
• We keep our word.
• We don’t abandon people when the going gets tough.
• We don’t get people into a mess and then leave them in it.
• We are a good partner.

Today’s  politicians are pissing on the graves of America’s war dead.

America’s borders are inked in the blood of her veterans and her war dead.

Generations of politicians past have ordered them to battle to establish and defend our borders.

In the Mexican-American War alone, which established our Southern border, 13,000 were asked to die.

Now  today’s unworthy politicians kick over their headstones and invite foreigner invaders to storm through their graveyards into our midst.   For corporate and electoral greed, not for the health of our National Family.

Where  a man or women today finds the inner steel to risk their bodies and lives to protect our generation amazes me.

We are unworthy of them.  We are unworthy of their predecessors.

The veterans deserve better than the political ne’er-do-wells holding office in American today.

The veterans of America own the moral high ground.  They fought, suffered, and life and limb to protect the American Family.

They deserve that today’s short sighted and greedy politicians not surrender to foreign invaders the National Family they weer asked to defend.

The highest respect one can pay America’s war dead, veterans, and military personnel, is to honor and protect the borders they were asked to create and defend, and to honor and protect the integrity of the American Family that lives within.

We civilians should show them we are worthy of them.

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I was given the following passage as being from a sermon by a John Hagee, whom I do not know, but his words are powerful:

“I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands.

He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war.

He stands though, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this…

I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it.

I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains. 

I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be politically incorrect. 

I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.

It’s the soldier, not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press. 

It’s the soldier, not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech. 

It’s the soldier, not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.

It’s the soldier, who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!

Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

Amen.”

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