Hell's Coming with Us

American Thinker ^ | January 07, 2007 | Adriana Ramirez

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January 07, 2007

Hell's Coming with Us

By Adriana Ramirez

My favorite line in any movie represents the quintessential battle cry needed in today's war. It reverberates in the tone of victory. 

It was a line delivered by Kurt Russell in the film Tombstone when he played frontiersman Wyatt Earp. The moment after the death of one of his brothers, Wyatt warned the western gang, The Cowboys, that he was going after them and "hell's coming with me." 

The fierceness of the phrase, the seriousness of purpose could not be clearer. After losing close to three-thousand of our citizens and as many of our soldiers, we must let our enemies know their time is up and we'll be there to deliver their end.  America must make this our mantra. Words that go beyond fake diplomatic verbiage and the soft underpinnings of political threats that run contrary to actual consequences.  "Hell's coming with us," epitomizes what the American political herd lack in this war against jihad.  It is a war that requires that we back up our words with action.

Hell's coming with us....

America is in need of a battle cry, a rallying shout of support that fixates on our desire to win and secure our way of life for generations.  The kind of battle cry that sends a message to our enemies that we will not relent, and they will adhere to only one solution-their defeat. 

Such an example of "hell coming with us" can be seen in the army of Ethiopia, a third world army that has fought the jihadis successfully by actively challenging them with no mercy and no second guessing.  The Ethiopians assessed the situation and purposely engaged the enemy with one goal-their end.  Interestingly, Ethiopian allies took control of the former U.S. embassy, abandoned for a decade, before spreading out across Mogadishu to secure key locations. 

I hope their example is contagious in its basic premise that to win a battle, let alone a war, is to engage the enemy with a focus, not a mild interest; a will, not a maybe; a desire, not a fickleness. 

The recent events in Somalia demonstrate both the jihadis' ability to successfully wage an insurgency, but yet admits their failure to control Somalia.  This in itself discloses an interesting pattern.  The jihadis are successful in the realm of non-ending battle -  insurgency/terrorism tactics - but when it comes to taking over a country, controlling a people, they fail terribly.  One can bring up stringent Saudi Arabia, but I can point to the unrest in Iran. 

The jihads in Mogadishu proved their inability to control a population and run a government.  As an army they're weak because their fascistic idealism runs contrary to human nature, its love of life and its many elements: wine, music, film, celebrations, love, the need for family and friends, and the freedom to worship as one wishes to worship, or not to worship. 

Hell's coming with us....

We also need to stir the media pot in our favor, in spite of the stirrings of a meddlesome old media.  Their dependence on unverifiable sources and witnesses and acts of fauxtography, makes them less credible.  Do they know the word taqquiya, a.k.a "religious deception," or in more friendly terms an admission by Muslims that allows them to say whatever furthers the case of Islam?  That lying to the infidels, which means us, is the first line of attack in jihad?  So despite a media that demands we, America, hold a gun to our head and shoot because we are really to blame for this whole mess with jihad,

Hell's coming with us....

Foremost, our enemies must be identified and pointed out.  If we find Iranian agents in Iraq, Iran then must be the object of our military affection.  The same goes for Syria or any other agents found operating in Iraq.  We must meet chaos not with chaos, as we know in chaos theory there's an underlying order to random data, but with an honest and effective war strategy that attacks this seeming chaos with abrupt action. 

We must acknowledge and solve our weaknesses and propel our strengths.  We should adhere to the battle tactics of John R. Boyd. Everyone should know that name, a man who not only found weaknesses in our military when he proved that most Soviet fighters had dog fighting capabilities superior to those of their U.S. counterparts, but was brought in by then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney to question General Schwarzkopf's battle plan in Desert Storm.  Boyd was seen by Marine Corps Commandant Charles Krulak's 1997 tribute as the "architect of America's victory in the Gulf War."  The Boyd-think of disrupting your enemy's battle decisions is to attack them quickly and disorient them.  This can only be accomplished with decisive behavior, not unending talk, spurious thinking, and meaningless ultimatums. 

Hell's coming with us....

My research into battle cries led me to words from Benjamin Franklin, from Gandhi, from George Washington, and even Bertrand Russell, on to George Orwell.  Some were simple in their opinion of war, how evil it was and how cowardly men were to participate in it, as if war is something that is chosen by good people.  Others spoke of the necessity of war and the need to face evil rather than allow it to linger and fester, infecting the world with cruel destruction and killing.  One must remember that Gandhi was able to force Great Britain out of his country, because he successfully shamed the British of their oppression and spoke to their virtues as a civilized society.  But what can one do when the enemy has no sense of propriety or civility? 

Hell's coming with us...  or our enemy will bring it again as it did that one September morning. 

[JasonC]

Somehow it lacks the punch of "mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord..."

Declaring oneself an evil being of foul purpose destined to lose, and seeing it as a way of conjuring up strength and purpose, is a sign of empty hearts, muddy understanding, and moral bankruptcy.

[AnAmericanMother]

Squawk: "Left engine missing."

Rep: "Left engine located on left wing after brief search."

Squawk: "Something loose behind instrument panel."

Rep: "Something tightened behind instrument panel."

Squawk: "Autoland extremely rough."

Rep: "Autoland not installed on this model a/c."

Squawk: "Dead bugs on windshield."

Rep: "Live bugs on back order."

[Ajnin]

America prosecutes it's warriors when ever it can and with more gusto and ferver than you'll see in the fight against our enemies. The tough talk is over. Bush even apologized for it. I think "How about those Chargers" would be a more apt slogan in this war.

[Jim Noble]

African Christians will sack Mecca within the next 100 years.

[4yearlurker]

If the rags disrupt the NFL season, I think that will get a few peoples attention.

[Bigg Red]

Beautiful article!! Thanks for posting it. Is this lady a FReeper?

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's impossible to fight faith with secularism. We need ever more of our American Judeo-Christian values to win. Otherwise, we lose, everything.

Close. Subverting Shia and Sunni Islam in Iraq with Sufism would be a more effective tactic - turning all those raging young hotheads into blissed-out mystic hippies. ;)

[Bigg Red]

"Hell's too harsh a word, but Heck might be joining us a little later."

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LOL!
Sadly true, however.

[B4Ranch]

I don't know.

[geopyg]

How about an adaptation from another Eastwood movie - one of his last westerns which I forget the name of (and i'm probably off on the dialogue as well):

"So what do ya do for a livin'?"

"I'm a terrorist".

"Dyin' anin't much of a livin'." Bang

[gcruse]

"no mercy and no second guessing. "

America is too _______ for that.

Moral, squeamish, spineless, divided, inner-directed, principled, aloof, pre-occupied, guilt-ridden, Christian, complacent, cowardly... you pick it.

[Lumper20]

Quotes do not win wars.

Every US military unit has it's own motto. The French Foreign Legion had theirs, too.

What we need is to get rid of the spineless ones in elected office, who leak intel, warn our enemies of our military plans and protect their wealth at our nation's expense.

[Marine_Uncle]

A good read. Wonder if dear widdle Nancy and her cronies will want to give them hell. Cough cough hack hack...

[onedoug]

"...blissed-out mystic hippies...."

As in Congress...

[wizr]

Amen.

[pa_dweller]

Pretty close. That's from The Outlaw Josey Wales

Josey: You a bounty hunter?

Bounty Hunter: A man has to do something these days to earn a living.

Josey: Dyin' ain't much of a living boy

[geopyg]

Thanks!

[ichabod1]

I like what the AC-130 crews said "You can run, you'll only die tired."