Re: Americans please.
USAF Four Star General Speaks Out <br /> <br />For those of you who don't know who General Hawley is, he is a newly retired <br />4-star general who commanded Air Combat Command. These are good words and true. <br /> <br />Speech from the former ACC commander (now retired and not restricted to being politically correct), Gen <br />Hawley: <br /> <br />"Since the attack, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surpassing stupidity that they must be <br />addressed. You've heard them too. <br /> <br />Here they are: <br /> <br />1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative." Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is <br />relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean, "We're <br />perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. <br /> <br />The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the <br />greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders <br />on Earth and see what happens. In about half a day, the entire world would be a ghost town, and the United <br />States would look like one giant line to see "The Producers. <br /> <br />" 2) "Violence only leads to more violence." This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy <br />League university to say it. <br />Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: <br />Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half-measures lead to more violence. <br /> <br />However, complete, fully thought-through, professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence <br />because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial," not "reeducated," <br />not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead. D-E <br />--Well, you get the idea. <br /> <br />3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community has failed us." <br />For <br />25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been <br />robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us. <br />Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant <br />ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all," <br />they reasoned, "you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked <br />by a license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. <br />You have to use other humans. <br /> <br />When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, <br />decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a guy who looks like <br />Gary Busey in a Spring Break'93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. <br />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 <br />a story they'll be telling for years. <br /> <br />4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us." Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's <br />frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton <br />John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers they <br />tortured and murdered to stay in power. <br /> <br />Mohammed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds (I'm sorry, one of <br />the "alleged hijackers," according to CNN-they stopped using the word "terrorist," you know), is the son of a <br />Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. <br /> <br />In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids <br />who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. At <br />least, that was my excuse. It's the same today. Take the Anti-Global-Warming (or is it World Trade? <br />Oh-who-knows-what-the-hell <br />-they-want demonstrators) They all charged their black outfits and plane tickets on dad's credit card before <br />driving to the airport in their SUV's. <br /> <br />5) "Any profiling is racial profiling." Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New <br />York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in <br />America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much <br />Drakkar. I'm crushed. <br />I think we're all crushed. Please come back. With a cherry on top? Why don't they just change their names, <br />anyway? It's happened in the past. <br /> <br />Think about it. How many Adolfs do you run into these days? Shortly after that, I remember watching TV with <br />my jaw on the floor as a government official actually said, "That little old grandmother from Sioux City could be <br />carrying something." Okay, how about this: No, she couldn't. It would never be the grandmother from Sioux <br />City. Is it even possible? What are the odds? Winning a hundred Powerball lotteries in a row? A thousand? <br />A million? <br /> <br />And now a Secret Service guy has been tossed off a plane and we're all supposed to cry about it because he's <br />an Arab? Didn't it have the tiniest bit to do with the fact that he filled out his forms incorrectly- - three times? <br />And then left an Arab history book on his seat as he strolled off the plane? And came back? Armed? Let's <br />please all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the <br />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." <br /> <br />SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never to let <br />the relativists get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political science <br />professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I <br />wish I had one that says, "You First. No More Pearl Harbors." <br /> <br />**** Hawley <br /><br />This should unclutter a few minds.<br /><br />c/6<br /><br />Hooty
