Posted on 09/05/2006 7:48:40 PM PDT by AnnaZ
When it comes to the War on Terror (and Bush and Condi and Rumsfeld...) oh-so-many people are experts, and everyone's a critic. Oh, of course it's usually couched as concern-with-furrowed-brows, but the upshot is the same and you'd have to be a fool today to see anything more benign than a spite-filled desire for America's demise.
Jay Leno, a week or so back, while on the topic of the capture of suicide-liquibombs-on-planes planners, quipped in his opening monologue: "British authorities said they were able to detect the terrorist plot using a surveillance program that the "New York Times hadnt got around to exposing yet."
Chortle.
"Oh," an acquaintance of mine pooh-poohed me after I'd quoted it through giggles, "you just believe that's true because you're pro-war." No, frankly I'm simply pro-victory, and only sometimes but not always are they the same thing.
I saw a picture of Cindy "Peace Mom" Sheehan the other day embracing some poor AWOL sucker who was on his way to turn himself in and meet his comeuppance. Isn't there somewhere she can turn herself into? She was wearing an American flag hat and, yet again, a black t-shirt with Arabic writing on it. A young Iraqi was allegedly denied boarding a flight a little while back for wearing the same shirt, yet somehow Jihad Cindy can move about the globe and country in it unimpeded. She wears it often, and I shouldn't know that, but since I do can't we at least get her on some kind of photo-op fashion violation? It makes me think of a bumper sticker I saw last week -- What Would Jackie Wear? Certainly not the same lousy t-shirt over and over again.
Fortunately, however, the act, like the outfit, is getting old. Yes, certainly, Cindy, we got the message... you "will not be silent", and apparently neither will your Islamic brethren whom you not-so-subtly endorse. Doesn't matter though. Less people are listening.
A couple of weeks back, again in reference to the British would-be-bombers, a witty FReeper wrote: "As the Prophet used to say, 'If the shoe fits, there probably aren't enough explosives in it.'" It doesn't matter who I quote that to, it gets a laugh, without qualifying it or explaining it, without preamble. I wonder why that is? Perhaps it's because these things do not happen in a vacuum.
Folks can stutter all they want about peace and protest being patriotic, but when Jay Leno has your number, the punchline is the zeitgeist is you. (Don't go hunting with Dick Cheney and the New York Times aids and abets terrorists.)
The media keeps telling us that a decent percentage of Americans are buying the Bush-brought-down-the-towers conspiracy (talk about vacuum-dwelling... did none of these folks own TVs in September of 2001?) but eventuallly those numbers will dwindle as well, except for the "true believers", of course. Let's face it, there's only so much greedy oil barons can do while still having enough time left over to count all their by-product of gouging whilst still managing to take over Somalia and gang-rape in Australia and disembowel in Nigeria and stone in Iran and behead in Indonesia and burn in France and intimidate in Belgium and murder in Holland and plan commuter carnage in England and Germany and Spain. What stamina.
I'm no expert, but I'm at least smart enough not to criticize that which I know little of and so the best I can contribute is hope and prayer that those in charge can bring about peace through unequivocal victory. Besides, I hate vacuuming.
This morning I was cleaning up in my boys' room after an action-packed long weekend. One whole side was taken up by what appeared to be nothing more than a jumble of stacked books covered with my six-year-olds army toys -- tanks, helicopters, soldiers large, small and Risk-sized, with a few cowboys and Vikings thrown in for good measure. To me, a nonsensical disaster.
I began separating them all into their requisite bins and boxes, clearly, it "felt" to me, the right thing to do. I spotted a scrap of paper next to it all and was already crumpling it and heading towards the trash can when I noticed, on the back of it, some writing. Smoothing it out I read, in all-capital-letters that virtually screamed at me:
This commentary is great. I agree with you about being pro-victory. I keep saying that there is no safety in security. We will never enact enough security measures to prevent these swine from killing more Americans. The only hope of peace or safety comes in victory. We must hit them so hard that they will either be dead or the survivors will surrender.
Bill
Good read, AnnaZ. Thanks for the ping!
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NEVER FORGET
The Man Who Predicted 9/11:
9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361/posts
NEVER FORGET
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When at peace, prepare for war. When at war, prepare for peace. One can only fail when one is ill-prepared, and yes, it seems nonsensical.
The problem in the Middle East is that one party (Islam) hasn't made any preparations for peace during this war. If we keep slamming them, they eventually will but, it's anyone's guess as to when.
The degree of 'kick-ass' may affect the length of any subsequent peace. Say some rogue state (Iran) cracks a nuke, we follow with supernukes. Peace will follow, might go 100-150 years. Which would mean to any prudent nation 100 or so years of preparing for the next war. And the beat goes on. (/sonny&cher)
I've found my "calling" in what I do for our country's security.
Have not missed one single week since Oct 4 2001
thanks for the ping AnnaZ...we are really fortunate to have so many good people willing to fight to protect our freedom.
Amen, babe. And thanks for the comments.
Another great read, thank you once again for sharing;-)
AWESOME as always!
How you been, kiddo? :-)
I couldn't agree more. I only wonder "when" are we going to do just that? It gives me no solace from my bleecher row seats to question the powers that be, however I can't but help wondering if those powers and the nation at large has the hutzpah to do it?
I also think the media's incessant attempts to depict even the smallest setback as just another step to our inevitable defeat is wearing thin.
Cindy Sheehan, Howard Dean, all of them - the more these crazy aunts are let out of the attic, the better.
Most of us will never forget.
Standing and applauding.
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