Yeah. I know it says I posted this on Friday. So where's it been all weekend? I started it on Friday, but won't finish it until Sunday, when I'll actually publish. And before I start, here's a little humor. Remember ladies, this is humor.
Mike wrote asking my opinion on this Den Beste piece. I'm flattered that anyone would ask my opinion on anything Den Beste wrote. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two things that he wrote that I disagreed with:
But I do agree with him about the 'Arab culture' that we're fighting. We've seen it at work in miniature with the Israeli-Palistinian situation. And Den Beste wrote about this also. The only way to have peace with the Palestinians is to so completely defeat them that they will have no choice but to accept Israel and peace. And that won't happen until the Arab Islamofascists are defeated.
I don't know who's the architect of the current policy, but they're doing everything right so far. The Arabs only respect strength. Appeasement is considered a sign of weakness. I think we finally have some people in the current administration who actually understand this. Bush's speech to the United Nations was a masterpiece. He's shown that organization just how worthless it is. The sight of ol' Kofi Kup crowing over Saddam's letter was hilarious, especially since it's not worth the paper it's printed on. Without restrictions. Bullshit!
Ever since World War II, everytime we've put Dimocrats in charge of foreign policy they have managed to fuck things up royally. We emerged from World War II as the strongest nation on earth. We were the only country with nukes and we proved that we would use them. I'm just wondering what would have happened if Truman would have told Stalin to get his ass out of Eastern Europe at the end of the war. Go back to Russia or Moscow will glow in the dark.
And then we came up with the idea of the United Nations. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Y'know, we can make socialism work. Really. We just need to put the right people in charge and start off with a lot of money. The League of Nations was a rousing success right? Yeah. It worked so well that we'll try it again. This time we'll call it the United Nations. Yeah. That's the ticket. And, in the feeling of good will, we'll even give the Soviet Union three seats in the General Assembly. What? Really?
I had a little argument with friends Michael and Cindy about this. Remember they fight dirty. They gang up on me and since they're married they have more arguing experience than I do. (I always try to arrive early for dinner parties so I can catch 'em in the pre-dinner party fight.) And, they always wait until we're on our second bottle of wine. Two drunks agin' one. Unfair. Anyway, I stated the fact that when the United Nations was created, the Soviet Union was given three seats. I remember reading this in the Weekly Reader when I was in elementary school. Whoa! That had to be in the 50's. Is your memory that good? Let me answer that question by warning ya not to play Trivial Pursuit with either my sister or myself. I've only lost once, and that was a fluke. I don't think my sister has ever lost. And, whatever you do, if we're playing teams, don't put us on the same team. It ain't pretty.
For the list of the members of the United Nations and when they joined go here. Dontcha just love the internet? If you peruse the list, you'll see that Byelorussia, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine (all members of the USSR) were original members of the UN.
So we've seen what a rousing success the United Nations is. Hey howza 'bout that bash the United States party down in South Africa? You Americans are responsible for all the problems in the world. You suck. Give us money.
I will give the Dimocrats credit for the Marshall Plan. But then, we had Korea. Korea was a fine example of how not to fight a war. In warfare you are supposed to fight to win. We fought the Korean War not to lose. MacArthur wanted to win, Truman wouldn't let him, MacArthur mouthed off, and Truman fired him. Now I don't know what would have happened if Truman would have let MacArthur fight his war. It would have been war with China. But, dammit, if you're gonna go to war you go to win. We wound up declaring it a draw and went home.
Since we had mastered the art of fighting wars not to lose, we greatly enhanced that strategy in Viet Nam. Thanks Lyndon. You gave us the Great fucking Society and Viet fucking Nam. Those are two great items for your legacy. Actually, Viet Nam started with Saint Kennedy and that dickhead McNamara. Wait a minute! You're badmouthing John Kennedy? What about the Cubam missile crisis? Listen, if Kennedy had not stabbed the Cubans in the back at the Bay of Pigs, there would have been no Cuban missile crisis. Why Johnson didn't fire that worthless sonuvabitch McNamara is beyond me.
I was in the Navy from 1965 to 1969. From October of 1966 to October of 1969 more than half my time was spent in Viet Nam. You would not believe the bullshit that we had to put up with. Most of us kids (I was twenty when I got there) were all gung ho to 'kill the gooks' (Not very politically correct, but that's what we called 'em) and win the war, but we were not fighting to win. Since we were not allowed to win, we lost.
I've subsequently talked to veterans about the war. Those of us who were involved in 1968 when Johnson made his speech about not running for reelection were ecstatic. All right! Now that Johnson is no longer running maybe he would do the right thing and take the gloves off and let us kick some ass. Alas, no. Same old stupid fucking policies. I really cannot put into words just how frustrated those of us involved in Viet Nam were throughout that period.
And then Nixon came up with a 'secret plan': Lose. Turn our tails and run. That was even more frustrating. All those lives lost for what? Nothing. Dimocrats got us into Korea and Viet Nam. Republicans got us out and in neither case did we have 'peace with honor'. Is it any wonder that the world started thinking of us as a bunch of pussies?
And that brings us to that great maven of foreign affairs, Jimmy Carter. Talk about someone who was (and still is) totally clueless. A bunch of pissant Iranians storm our embassy and take everyone hostage and Jimmah tries to talk 'em to death. Where was the United Nations? Taking over an embassy and holding diplomats hostage is in direct violation of international law. Where were our 'friends'? Where was the rest of the world? Oh, that's right. We were only getting what we deserved. All the problems in the world were (and still are) all our fault. So we had another Dimocrat president showing the world that we were all talk and no action. Remember Reagan? The whole world thought he was an 'out of control cowboy'. So did the Iranians. The hostages were released the day he took the oath of office.
I do have some stones to throw at Reagan. Back in 1982 when Israel chased Arafat and his gang of thugs up to Beirut, we stopped the Israelis and let Arafat and the thugs escape. We were rewarded for this by having our Marine barracks in Beirut blown up. Assholes! Our response? Turn tail and run. We should have at least bombed the Bekaa Valley. Another fine example of American resolve.
At least we won Gulf War I, but, as we have done so often, we did not finish the job. And why did we win? The generals made it clear to the politicians that they wanted a clear objective and asked for an overwhelming force so this would not be another Viet Nam. And the 'mother of all battles' turned out to be the mother of all surrenders.
And that brings us up to Billy boy. I hope all you people who voted for this bastard are proud of yourselves. Let's list some of his accomplishments. There's that Somalia thing. The first WTC bombing. Biting lip 'We're gonna find the people who did this and bring them to justice.' Khobar Towers. Biting lip 'We're gonna find the people who did this and bring them to justice.' Embassy bombings. Biting lip, 'We're gonna find the people who did this and bring them to justice.' USS Cole. Biting lip, 'We're gonna find the people who did this and bring them to justice.' Hey Bill. Ya might wanna put some ice on that you phony bastard.
So now we have us another 'cowboy' as president. We went into the quagmire ('Another Viet Nam', squealed the peace activists. Shut the fuck up and go somewhere and sing Kumbaya. Get Jane Fonda and Jimmy Carter to join you.) of Afghanistan and mysteriously won. Uh Oh! Maybe we Americans aren't the pansies they thought we were. They thought they were still dealing with the Jimmy Carters and Bill Clintons of America.
But that's OK. The spirit of Jimmy Carter still lives on in l'il Tommy Dasshole and Dick 'Head' Gephardt (Good one, Kim!). Can't we just talk about this? Let the United Nations handle it. But, the American people are getting pretty sick of this crap and Dasshole and Dick Head can read polls. And dontcha know it just pisses 'em off that Bush is back up to a 70% approval rating? And Billy boy wishes he were still president. He'd be biting his lip and shedding real tears and he'd be bombing goats and aspirin factories.
I'm glad that we have a real man in the Oval Office and not some girly man like that overgrown adolescent Billy boy.
And to the. rest of the world. We're mad as hell and we aren't gonna take any more crap from pissant Arabs and you nihilist Islamofascists. Got it?
And to Billy boy. Put some ice on that lip.
Posted by denny at September 20, 2002 09:29 PM