War of Wits

Part of the federal government’s supposed crackdown on illegal immigration and one of the few absurdities that Republicans capitulated to was this cockamamie notion of a ‘virtual’ border fence. Apparently, Congress lacks the political will to put real physical barriers in place to stop this invasion. That, or they’re just plum lazy. Probably a smattering of both, but it’s the laziness that concerns me. This culture of Congressional couch-potatoism has caused them to take what is arguably the easy way out, relying on the crutch of technology to do that for which they lack the spine.

It matters not if it is software that models weather, runs the neighborhood ATM or sends our astronauts into space; the underlying principles governing the testing processes to discover and remediate defects remains the same.

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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

Democrats continue to choose treachery over patriotism, siding with our enemies while ignoring the realities on the ground in Iraq as well as throughout the rest of the world.

While there is now some Democrat infighting over MoveOn.org’s recent character assassination of 4-Star US Army General David Petraeus (and rightfully so), there is no public Democratic Party disavowal of the attack on this American patriot. As a result, there is increasing outrage among military families and average Americans over these horrendous tactics designed specifically to divide the country. The only 2 conclusions one can draw from Democratic silence over MoveOn.org’s cheap shot courtesy of the New York Times are either political cowardice or outright approval.

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Democrats are perpetually beating the drum of support for our military men and women. They try and hide it with all of their might, but the true contempt they hold for our nation’s military always seems to escape from the lips of those who speak for the party itself. As a veteran, I consider their insults morally repugnant.

Last year, they screamed for change in Iraq, threatening to pull the plug by whatever means necessary. They purposefully avoided using terms like “withdrawal” or (more accurately) “retreat” to describe what they sought from the President. They said they had a mandate: a “change of course” and a “redeployment”. President Bush gave them both in the form of thousands of extra soldiers to hand the Iraqi government and military some breathing room.

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Hokie - “a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise” - Johann Norstedt - Retired VA Tech English Professor

Once again, a suicidal maniac hell-bent on exacting as much revenge as possible has struck one of the nation’s schools, this time a world-class university. But as information about the shootings, suspect and victims arrived at news desks in drips and drabs, the over-the-top coverage of the incident by the mainstream media wasn’t very helpful. In fact, the sensationalism with which NBC, Fox News, and others covered this nightmare did nothing except feed disinformation and rampant speculation.

On the April 16th morning broadcast of Fox News Live, within hours of the conclusion of the massacre, Fox contributor and former D.C. Homicide Detective Rod Wheeler was asked about the possibility that an M-16 may have been this shooter’s weapon of choice. It is unclear -and may never be known- whether a witness reported an M-16, whether a witness assumed that an M-16 was involved due to the volume of fire, or exactly where Fox obtained this information. If you’ll remember the Beltway sniper incident which turned out to be the work of John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, initial speculation in the media was that a military-trained sniper was likely involved. Similarly, the immediate focus of the media speculators once again fell on a member of our armed forces in Blacksburg. Mr. Wheeler wondered aloud on camera what the shooter’s affiliation to the military might have been, as M-16s were not exactly easy to come by.

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