“They wouldn’t leave, nor allow themselves to be “jettisoned”, nor would they allow us to leave, without using force to keep us under their thumb.”
I’d guess that 99.9% of the “elites” have never served in uniform, let alone fought on a battlefield.
The Libyan army had it right. When Qaddhafi ordered the army to fire on Libyan civilians, some officers dragged Qaddhafi’s army chief of staff into the courtyard and blew his brains out.
Then Qaddhafi ordered his sub-Saharan mercenaries to kill Libyans. The army attacked the city where the mercenaries lived and bombed it and burned it to the ground.
That kinda scared Qaddhafi’s loyalist officers and bureaucrats, and they made a sprint for the border. Many were caught and hanged from lampposts. About 3,000 are now sitting in militia jails, their fate unknown.
The Libyan situation scared the bejeebers out of the criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington. The elites now know they can’t count on the military to protect their fascist ass. Human nature, being what it is, discounts the possibility of the troops firing on their family, friends and neighbors. Given a choice of killing mom and pop or the pig who gave the order, guess which way the rifles point. We know from Libya.
Qaddhafi found out the hard way where a grunt’s loyalty lies after a militia sergeant slammed him against the hood of an SUV and shot him with the gold-plated semi-auto pistol that Gaddhafi carried.
Libya really, really blew up the Washington elitist fantasy of sending out the military to protect their worthless asses.
They are somewhat chagrined at the moment and crapping in their pants.
That they think they are thoughtful and progressive’ just adds to the reality of how pathetically shallow and uninformed they truly are. These are the kind of people who buy Stilton and brie, know the differences between a Brunello and a Cabernet, have seen La Boheme at the Met, have traveled in Europe, think Carl Marx was a smart man with a nice vision, and generally think that one can only be smart and educated if one goes to the right schools and comes away thinking the same way they do.
The truth is that people like Fineman are the ones who hate and judge unfairly. It is they who need to be educated and who need to get out of their artificial self-supporting small worlds and expand their minds.