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Tuesday, May 17, 2005


  Zero: Interesting

A little tidbit someone sent me...

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What a magnificent and insightful view of what this war on
Terrorism is actually about.

General Hawley, is a newly retired USAF 4 star general. He
commanded the Air Combat Command [our front-line fighters and
bombers at Langley AFB, VA.] He is now retired and no longer
required to be politically correct.
A true patriot!

"Since the attack [9/11], I have seen, heard, and read
thoughts of such surprising stupidity that they must be addressed.
You've heard them too. Here they are:

(1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is
relative."

Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is
relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see,
folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean, "We're perfect." Okay?
The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all
our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the
greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in
history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see
what happens.

(2) "Violence only leads to more violence."

This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president
of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the truth, which
you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, unfocused
violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half measures lead
to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through,
professional, well executed violence never leads to more violence
because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's
right, dead. Not "on trial," not "reeducated," not "nurtured back
into the bosom of love." Dead.

(3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community
have failed us."

For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake
in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at
them for not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under
Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these
giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international
intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all, (they
reasoned), you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This
is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate.
Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not
possible with satellites. You have to use other humans. When we
bought all our satellites, we fired all our human s, and here's the
really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new
humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a
guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Bre

(4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why
they're angry at us."

Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was
just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers
are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less
annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers
they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohammed Atta, one
of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing
grounds is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But of course, you knew this already.
In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against
the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause
they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend
more time drinking. It's the same today."

(5) "Any profiling is racial profiling."

Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the
attack, the New York Times had an article saying dozens of
extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in
America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to
return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm
crushed. Please come back. Let's all stop singing "We Are the
World" for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be
sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from
hitting Mt.Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me and
say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them."

*So here's what I resolve for the New Year*:

Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never
to let the relativists get away with their immoral thinking.
After all, no matter what your daughter's political science
professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper
sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I wish I had one that
says, "No More Pearl Harbors" .

Thanks a ton. "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If
you are reading it in English, thank a soldier."

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"...the price of freedom is eternal vigilance..."
[RTI] ZeroFunction, the thoughtful
 


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