In Order To Solve A Problem, You Sometimes Have To Work Backwards - Part I. The War On Terror
This country is upside down. We’ve lost our sail. Our moral compass.
The BIG LIE of political correctness. Media bias. Judicial tyranny. Weak-kneed politicians. The two-party political system. The boundless greed of attorneys. The danger of sexual predators and pedophiles. The social, cultural and economic burden of illegal aliens. The whittling away of our constitution, our religion, our culture and our very traditions by the ACLU.
All of these are multiple cancers that have been slowly spreading for 30 years.
Once just minor annoyances or the butt of jokes, they have now metastasized into a deadly disease infecting this country. They’re now affecting the way we are fighting the War On Terrorism, and if we don’t put a stop to it, the consequences will be dire indeed.
I once swore to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, “against ALL enemies, both foreign AND domestic”. I grew up in the greatest place in the history of humanity. I make no apologies for that. I wake every morning and go to sleep every night thanking my maker for all that this country has blessed me with. I am sick and tired of watching her slide into the gutter in slow-motion.
President Bush sent the military into Iraq. They are still there over 3 years later. Their mission was to find the WMDs, defeat Saddam and rebuild the country.
Preconceived outcomes and assumptions, a complete lack of imagination, an over-reliance on an incomplete intelligence picture; all of these things and more contributed to the Bush Administration’s inability to envision that brutal terrorists would fill the power vacuum, slit the throats of civilians, hold up their heads in triumph and gloat.
America initially supported Bush because the War on Terror supposedly required –in Bush’s own words– “killing or capturing” them wherever they are. DEAD OR ALIVE. BRING IT ON.
The sad reality is, US Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines are now increasingly facing courts-martial for bringing it on.
Our enemies attack us from hospitals, places of worship, houses, moving vehicles or behind the skirts of women.
They pack nail-bombs in cars, buses, trains, donkeys, baby-carriages, on women, in vegetable markets; and US Marines are court-martialed for an alleged violation of the Rules of Engagement that occurred in the FOG OF WAR while under fire.
What good is having our troops there when they no longer have the 100% commitment of their Commander-in-Chief to give them all of the tools and the authority to use them to accomplish the mission?
Why would anyone EVER want to volunteer or –even worse– re-enlist to defend the freedom of another under these circumstances?
Burst into a building with grenades flying and guns blazing and kill ALL of the terrorists in the place outright and you’re justified…
But wound one of them and then grease him because these monsters also have a really bad habit of wiring their dead, wounded and themselves with explosives- and you’ll suffer the consequences.
That is the message the Pentagon just sent.
What the hell are you going to tell that soldier? “It’s not that you killed him, son…. It’s that you wounded him first and THEN had the audacity to kill him?”
