Dear Noninterventionists, Keep My Fellow Soldiers Names / Sacrifices Out of Your @#$% Mouth

The deaths of American soldiers deserve respect, reflection and national attention. No one who has served or stood beside those who served would ever argue otherwise.

That being said noninterventionist hijacking the blood shed by my fellow soldiers much less while they are still under fire in attempts to “grievance wash” sedition is not the same as “honoring their sacrifices”. Those are two very different things, and they know it.

There is a long, filthy historical pattern—Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan—where seditionist try to spotlight the human cost of military action for one calculated reason: to gradually poison public debate / erode national will and make everyone forget the savage strategic threat that started the damn fight in the first place.

The result?

The entire conversation becomes a one-sided false and performative “sob fest” by defeatists that attempts to dismiss the catastrophic cost of inaction. That isn’t journalism much less care for our fallen. That’s enemy propaganda dressed up as “concern”.

Such reckless noninterventionist crap has very real strategic consequences. When Tehran, Moscow, Beijing and every other pack of jackals watch such domestic sedition framed entirely around attempts to weaponize American’s sensitivity to casualties, they hear the same message loud and clear:

“Inflict or highlight enough losses and the United States national will collapse.” (1)

Craven noninterventionist's attempt to amplify the mullah regime soft power / influence operations doesn’t honor my fellow soldiers; it turns their sacrifice into a cheap messaging tool for political sabotage.

My fellow servicemen who volunteer to serve this country do so knowing the risks. What they deserve in return is an honest discussion about the strategic realities they are confronting—not selective, manipulative narrative that co-opts, hijacks and amplifies the tragedy befallen to them by our enemies as a subtext to the defeatist narratives that allow hostile regimes to run wild.

Anything less turns their sacrifice into a political prop for noninterventionist sedition. My fallen brothers and sisters deserve far, far better than having their names and their deaths weaponized by the very people trying to erode America’s will while the bullets are still flying.

Put another way, little noninterventionists keep my fellow soldiers’ names and their tragedies the @#$! out of your mouth.

Jeffrey Damien Cappella

President Soldiers to Statesmen Foundation

End Notes / Cited Sources

North Vietnam – General Võ Nguyên Giáp / Vietnamese Strategy

North Vietnamese leadership openly understood that U.S. public opinion was the center of gravity.

Quote

“In the United States, the center of gravity was public opinion… our strategy was to erode the American will.”

Merle L. Pribbenow (translator), General Võ Nguyên Giáp: Writings on the War, National Defense University Press.

Related concept discussed widely in Vietnam War studies: the Tet Offensive was designed to shock U.S. public opinion, even though it was a military loss for the North Vietnamese.

Supporting scholarship

Harry G. Summers Jr., On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (1982) Summers writes that North Vietnam understood that they did not have to defeat U.S. forces militarily if they could collapse U.S. domestic support for the war.

Al-Qaeda – Osama bin Laden “Bleeding America”

Bin Laden was extremely explicit that casualty costs and economic costs were meant to erode American political will.

Quote :

“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.”

Source

Osama bin Laden video message, October 29, 2004 Transcript published by:

Al Jazeera
U.S. intelligence monitoring organizations

Context: he explicitly referenced Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that great powers could be defeated through attrition and political exhaustion.

Al-Qaeda – “Battle of the Narrative”

Al-Qaeda leadership openly described the fight as a war for perception and public opinion.

Quote

“More than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media.”

Source Ayman al-Zawahiri letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi July 9, 2005 Document recovered by U.S. forces in Iraq. Published by: Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

Bin Laden – Strategy of Exhaustion

Quote

“The mujahideen, by the grace of Allah, succeeded in draining Russia for ten years until it went bankrupt… and was forced to withdraw.”

Source

Osama bin Laden interview ABC News – John Miller interview, 1998 Bin Laden explicitly states his belief that America could be defeated the same way the Soviet Union was.

ISIS / Jihadist Propaganda Strategy

Modern jihadist propaganda manuals openly discuss using U.S. casualties and images of war to influence Western politics.

Example

ISIS magazine Dabiq repeatedly argued that:

“Western societies are casualty-averse and will abandon conflicts once losses increase.”

Source

Charlie Winter, Documenting the Virtual Caliphate Quilliam Foundation, 2015.

Russian Information Warfare Doctrine

Russian strategy explicitly includes information operations designed to influence Western political will.

Quote

“The information space opens wide asymmetrical possibilities for reducing the fighting potential of the enemy.”

Source General Valery Gerasimov “The Value of Science in Prediction” Military-Industrial Courier, 2013. Western analysts widely interpret this doctrine as emphasizing psychological and political warfare targeting domestic audiences of adversaries.

Maoist Insurgency Theory (Influenced Many Groups)

Many insurgent groups follow Maoist theory emphasizing political warfare over battlefield victory.

Quote

“The enemy’s rear is our front.”

Source Mao Zedong On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) The concept emphasizes attacking the enemy’s political cohesion rather than purely military targets.

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