The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has sent out warnings to troops saying they should “mask their identities” and change their routines, warning they risk attack by ISIS.
“Terrorists directed or inspired by ISIS view members of US military and law enforcement officers as legitimate targets for attack,” the memo warned, adding that attacks could have “little-or-no advanced warning.”
The warning appears to stem from the Ottawa parliament attack earlier this month, and the belief that ISIS and its sympathizers could be keen to attack military targets as they find them, particularly as the war escalates.
The memo urged soldiers not only to vary their travel routines, but to take any military decals off their vehicles, and to avoid posting anything critical of terrorist organizations on social media, on the notion that it might fuel such attacks.
There’s no doubt that ISIS, or indeed any terrorist group that the US is openly at war with, would consider US troops to be a legitimate target, but the memo suggests a level of concern about it that underscores just how little of a handle the US intelligence community has on the possibility of lone wolf attackers.
Wait, are they talking about attacks inside the US?
Soldiers are crappy targets. If you're ruining your own life for some cause, well chosen lobbyists and politicians are clearly a better choice. Then watch the media try to spin some kind of sympathy for those. Oughta be downright suspicious that they're so PR unsavvy that they'd Pick America's Ken Dolls/Sacred folks owed perpetual thanks for going along. Roughly the same thought should come up when there's a public warning to them: politicians also want us to see 'heroes' as under threat, not themselves. A savvy enemy would refuse that bait as much as possible.
…what 'handle' would one expect to have on 'lone wolves?' It'd be funny to trace how this 'lone wolf' jargon began. This might sound vaguely familiar: "Radicalized by cooking shows, 'Sally' began her anti gluten Jihad online, then expanded her hateful activity into dissing wheat in mixed company." The 'radicalized on the web' bit was also a boon to their war on fast information sources other than themselves; the general strategy of sowing mistrust.
Blowback is ugly. But what to expect, it is a war, with no borders.
Nathan, is blowback uglier than the bombs we dropped to cause it…than the people we tortured to cause it…than the people we displaced to cause it…than the infrastructure we´ve destroyed to cause it…than the terror we´ve committed on human beings? I think we both agree that it is not.
"The Troops" are apparently the only people left, sufficiently indoctrinated to fall for the Pentagon's latest scare tactic.
Oh, don't kid yourself. There are goobers aplenty who consume this BS with hearts aflutter. There is a whole demographic that is addicted to the "Ken Dolls/Sacred folks owed perpetual thanks for going along" (I loved that characterism, P.) meme who wouldn't know how to act if the government stopped reminding them how afraid they are.
It amuses me to see the reaction of the pundits when we are attacked in any way by the people we've been bombing and killing for years. How dare they shoot back?
We've been doing the push-button war bit for far too long, America- we're about to get some skin in the game whether we like it or not.