Breaking the cardinal principles of Total Defense

I read Darkness’ article on his lamentation on how the Israelis went about the defense of their country and people and why a Paris or Mumbai style attack is highly unlikely to succeed or even take place in Israeli cities. There are a homogenous people honed by circumstances to be consciously alert to any sign of trouble and everyone is trained to take ownership and responsibility of the surrounding. A bag left in the train or anywhere that it should not be would receive immediate attention by an Israeli nearby, not necessarily a uniformed officer. The Israelis practiced Total Defense to the hilt.

 

Comparing the Israelis, our Total Defense is a joke, a tragicomedy waiting to happen. Total Defense is not lip service and to be written on paper. The whole strategy must be understood by everyone, the citizen on the ground and the people at the top. A simple review of why the Israeli Total Defense is working and ours a farce would point to all the cardinal sins that we have committed to turn our Total Defense into a fishing net, full of holes.

 

For economic growth, for some silly theory that we need more foreigners to grow our economy, for coveting other people’s talent, for foolishly and dangerously embracing every foreigner into the country, into our social and govt organizations, and the nightmarish acceptance of foreigners to guard our entry points, sensitive organizations and even joining the police and armed forces, how can anyone talk about Total Defense? Even our commercial organizations, the IT and banking industries are controlled by foreigners. They could simply deactivate all the networks and commercial systems, collect all the sensitive information and data by now to do damage if needed.

 

How can we practice Total Defense when the potential enemies are living with us when more than 50% of our population is foreigners, when they are working side by side with us, eating and sleeping with us? If a bag or parcel is left in the train or a shopping centre, who is there to check on it, to alert the security when 6 out of 10 people are foreigners who have no interest in the safety and security of the people?

 

You cannot practice Total Defense, you cannot have Total Defense when the person beside you is not one of you and could be a potential enemy or terrorist. We have compromised our national security for the sake of economic growth. And some are so stupid to open their arms and legs to welcome every foreigner into their homes, into security and uniformed services.

 

How stupid can this country be? We have raised our security status due to the Paris attack and think we are now safer. How would it work, how can it work when the enemy is already with us? Who is going to guard against those that are guarding our security? Did they discover that one of the Paris attackers registered himself as a refugee in Greece and was allowed into France? How many are already in Europe? How many are already safe and secured in Singapore and waiting for the order to strike? We have more than 2 million foreigners here. You only need a handful of trained terrorists, 3 or 5 or 7, to strike terror deep in the heart of town.

 

Would someone want to rethink about Total Defense and the policy of bringing in foreigners by the millions? Did someone encourage these foreigners to integrate with us and betterer, other than joining RCs is to let them join the uniformed services, to be trained, to be armed, to put on our uniforms? And for sure, those recruited must be the most innocent looking and did not look threatening, did not look like terrorists. They have the fairest ladies to seduce James Bond not for no reasons.