Can we please just have the truth?

 

 

"If the enemy is already here, and if we don't know where all of them are, we are indeed in danger..."

Yesterday was an interesting day. In fact, the entire week has been interesting. However, nothing was more interesting than this morning's national news. The subject - ISIL. The location - probably here. The problem - huge. The other problem - our government is not telling us just how big of a problem it is right now.

The man who was on the morning news is a recently retired military officer. Being recently retired, he still has fresh connections to the Pentagon. He told the viewing audience something that should have been startling to all. But the lack of veracity which infects this Administration has caused many of us to become skeptical or tone deaf to what is being reported. In other words, we have come to expect occluded facts such that they give us.

This week we put our domestic bases on the highest alert they have been on since the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The retired military man on the news show said there is good reason for it. Unlike what the Director of the FBI told us this week, there are currently a thousand or more ISIL operatives in this country. Plus, this is what the Administration will NEVER tell us - many have come across our very porous southern border.

For just for the moment, I will discount what this retired military officer said. I will put it aside as bluster or embellishment. I will instead believe what ISIL told us earlier this week. That they only had 71 trained fighters in 15 states just waiting to do more Texas style attacks. That would be bad enough. In fact, that would be terrible. But if the officer was right, and we have over 1,000 of these bad guys to worry about, we are in deep, deep trouble.

One more thing as I try to connect the dots. First, as a retired military officer myself who carried a high clearance, I do know what is disclosed to the public is only a fraction of what is known. Second - Jade Helm. What if Jade Helm is not an exercise, but a troop movement to stem the tide of this incursion? The troops associated with Jade Helm are mostly all special forces. If the incursion point is truly the southern border, Jade Helm is headed in the right direction.

I don't know what the answer is. I do know this - we want the truth. Not political gobbledy gook, the unvarnished truth. If we are in danger, tell us. If there are some precautions the public needs to take, tell us. My biggest fear is this - if the government cannot protect us, and there is an ISIL attack on soft targets, the public will defend itself. And that would get messy real fast. There could be collateral damage to innocents. It would be the wild, wild west all over again.

Stay turned to this one folks. There seems to be enough smoke in the air where there has to be some kind of fire...