r-Selection Diminishes The Will To Fight

A DHS official argues that Obama’s admin is covering for radical Islam purposely:

Appearing this week on CBN News, former Department of Homeland Security officer Philip Haney gave an insider’s perspective on the Obama administration’s dedication to avoiding offending Muslims at the expense of national security.

Haney, who details his experience as a whistleblower in his new book “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad,” came to the realization in 2009 when his superiors made an odd request regarding valuable information he had gathered and entered into the DHS electronic database.

“They told me, we want you to eliminate – the word was ‘modify’ – all the linking information in about 850 records that I put into the system on guess what group? The Muslim Brotherhood,” Haney told CBN’s Jennifer Wishon.

Haney said the Obama administration did not wish to investigate Muslim Brotherhood members as terrorists because it relied on the Brotherhood and other Muslim groups with ties to terrorism to help form U.S. counter-terrorism policy.

Three years later, in 2012, the administration purged all 67 of Haney’s records dealing with Muslims associated with a movement known as Tablighi Jamaat.

We saw the same strategy at work when the Naval Commander surrendered his troops to the Iranians:

The commander in charge of the naval vessels that strayed into Iranian waters and were captured last January surrendered his command because he thought his sailors would be safe because Iran “wanted the nuclear deal to go through…”

In an interview with investigators looking into the January incident, the commander said he surrendered the vessels after calculating that his sailors would not be in danger because Iran “wants this nuke deal to go through.”

The interview was one of several stunning revelations in the often scathing 170-page report compiled by Navy investigators, chronicling the chain of events that led to the apprehension and detention of the 10 American sailors by the Iranian military after a pair of U.S. patrol boats drifted into the country’s sovereign waters in the Persian Gulf.

There is a calculus to conflict. What do you risk if you don’t fight, what do you risk if you do? You can talk about gains, but from the perspective of amygdala, a lost gain is factored in as a potential loss. So if you get a million dollars to fight, to the amygdala that is a million dollars that you won’t have a chance to get if you don’t fight.

When resources are free, the lost resources don’t exist, so they don’t factor into the equation. To the amygdala, there is no downside to fleeing, surrendering, or sitting idly by. There is nothing to drive a human to be what they could be by taking the risks which are behind greatness. The better angels appear when we are under the worst threat, and when standing down has cost.

The nation has simply had too long a period of comfort and total lack of threat.

There is no remedy but what is coming. I assume it will be awful, but you need to view it the way a weightlifter views the pain of a set. By that last repetition, your muscles are burning, your joints ache, and your heart is beating out of your chest. But that burn is what will produce the effect you want later. That bad is the good you will enjoy once it is over.

Never forget the gains which will come from the pain you experience. Use that knowledge to contextualize the pain, make it bearable, and maybe even make it desirable. Once you learn to welcome pain, nothing in life is insurmountable.