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Date Posted: Thursday, March 25 2004, 20:43:31 GMT ( - 8 )
Subject: Fw: war on terrorism
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>What a magnificent and insightful view of what this war on terrorism is
>actually about. Please read and pass on as you see fit.
>
>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
surpassing
>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 humans, 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
>Break '93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say
>"Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella. "Well,
>you can, but all you'd be doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be
>telling for years.
>
>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 you knew this, too. 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 to 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."
>
>THIS NEEDS TO STAY IN CIRCULATION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE OR WILL FALL FOR THE
>STUPIDITY GOING AROUND. PLEASE PASS IT ON!
>
>"If you can read this, thank a teacher....
>If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier
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