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We're Doomed

Flush. Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, glorp. That was the sound of common sense going right down the toilet. We have lost the war on terrorism and the reason is we do not want to use the common sense that is required. In essense it has been flushed down the toilet of political correctness. Anyway, a war cannot be fought against a concept. It must be fought against actual people.

Let's review our wars in this country:

• French and Indian War. Actually this was a proxy war fought between England and France in the British and French colonies in North America. It was essentially a draw as England signed a peace treaty with France without finishing them off. They enlarged the number of their overseas possessions. The American colonists gained valuable military experience.
• The Revolutionary War. We won.
• The War of 1812. We got pissed that the British Navy was impressing seamen off our commercial fleet to man their ships in their war with France. Another war between England and France. They didn't finish them off in the previous war. And then along came Napoleon. Another draw. England settled to devote all their force against France.
• The Civil War. Federalism won. Thus began the rise of a strong federal government.
• Spanish American War. We won.
• World War I. We won.
• Prohibition. The war against alcohol. We lost. I mean we lost big time.
• World War II. We won.
• The Cold War. The Cold War was not a war against communism. It was a war with the Soviet Union fought with little proxy wars throughout the globe. And it also proved the futility of fighting wars with limited objectives. There is one and only one way to fight a war. You totally annihilate the enemy or you totally destroy his capability for waging war. We had to fight World War II because we didn't finish the job in World War I. We had to fight the Cold War because at the end of World War II we didn't tell the Soviet Union to get the fuck out of Eastern Europe and disarm or we would take up where Hitler left off and we would finish the job. Because we didn't, we had to go through Korea. Truman fired MacArthur because he wanted to take out China and Truman was afraid of starting World War III. So, here was the first of our 'peace with honor' wars. Viet Nam, our second 'peace with honor' war was a total cluster fuck from day one. Another serious mistake, but it did give us a chance to develop and test weapons. Just like Korea was a chance to test jet fighter strategy. We had some other proxy wars in Africa and South America. It was only when Ronald Reagan upped the ante and forced them to bankrupt their inefficient socialist (Socialism never has and never will work. And don't bring up Sweden. Their economy is imploding) economy. They could not keep up in the arms race and still support all their client states. It took fifty years to do what we should have done after World War II. We won. It came at a great cost.
• The War on Poverty. We lost this one even worse than Prohibition. The Great fucking Society created an underclass dependent on the govenment like we have never seen before. You do not lift someone out of poverty by giving him (or more often her) a check. Like the old saw says 'Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime'. We have people with no skills because of the total failure of our government education system in the inner city. Since the establishment of the Department of Education, our education system has only gotten worse. We also have leaders of the underclass like ol' Reverend Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson who have convinced these people that they are unable to succeed without help from government. We also have many misguided liberals who feel the same way. And now, from the same folks who introduced subsidized poverty, we have the reparations scam, which will only serve to create more resentment between the races. The Klan must be laughing their butts off because they could not have done more harm to the blacks in this country if they had tried.
• The War on Drugs. Here is another disaster! As long as we have porous borders drugs will get in. Also, you cannot legislate morality. Just like during Prohibition, people want drugs and they will get them. Just like Prohibition, organized crime has found a nice little niche. There is a lot of money involved which means lots of law enforcement people and politicians can be corrrupted and bought.
• The Gulf War. We won. See what happens when we actually let the military do what they do best: fight wars? But, once again, we didn't finish the job.

We can only fight wars against people and countries. We cannot fight wars against intangibles like poverty, communism, alcohol, drugs, or terror. If we are going to fight a war against terror that means we have to fight a war against people and terrorists. I felt real positive when I heard President Bush say to the countries of the world, 'You're either with us, or you're against us.' I was down in Lebanon, Missouri when the bombing of Afganistan started and when I got to my friend Cliff's house he had the TV on and he greeted me with 'Kabul. Kaboom!' All right! Here's a start! Alas we seem to have not done anything since. I was hoping the warbloggers were right that Bush was playing rope-a-dope to sucker Saddam Hussein but if he is, he's doing such a good job he's got all of us fooled.

If we really want to fight a war against terrorism we need to fight against actual terrorists. Who is the oldest and most active terrorist in the world today? If you answered Yassir (yes sir, yes sir, that's my terrorist) Arafat give yourself a gold star. Because we want to build a coalition of our 'friends' among the 'moderate' Arab states (moderate arab...now there is a real oxymoron), we have been keeping the leash on Ariel Sharon. For a list of our warnings, admonishments, and threats (?) to good 'ol Yassir go here and scroll down to the middle of the June 6 entry. Disgusting isn't it? Do you think the rest of the world believes us when we say we're waging an all out war against terrorism, and, if you're not with us you're against us?

And now, we're creating a new cabinet level bureaucracy. Yeah, that will fix our internal security problems. All right, all you politicans running around pointing fingers about 9/11, I can tell you exactly why 9/11 was not prevented in two words: political correctness. Jesus, it was Middle Eastern men who hijacked the planes on 9/11 and we still are not singling them out for more intensive checks at airports because we would be racial profiling. No, you dickheads, that would be common sense. So, what makes anyone think that if the government were told that men from the Middle East were gonna hijack airplanes they would have pulled the hijackers out of lines for more intensive checks. We are now seeing the stupid spectacle of watching booger eatin' moh-ron screeners, (or as Tommy Daschle said 'To professionalize we must federalize'. Yeah let's federalize our fuckups...That works) go over little old ladies (Excuse me ma'am, we need to look in your bag. Uh, sonny, speak up.. Did you call me a hag?), while letting Akbar and Abdullah go, so we don't offend them. Look, Minetta, I realize it was an injustice that your parents were sent to internment camps during World War II. We were wrong. We're sorry. It won't happen again. We are not planning on locking up all the Muslims in this country. We just want to play the odds and check out the people most likely to hijack an airplane. And for all you Muslims who are against this policy, why don't you start acting like Americans and help us out here? Denounce Islamic terrorists. Because that's with whom we are at war: Muslim fanatics who have so distorted Islam that they are a total disgrace to your religion. Or is Islam a religion of hate? Once we totally destroy them, we can get back to political correctness and our downward spiral to socialism. Put your hatred of Jews and Israel away for awhile.

Here's my plan. Tell Arafat he's done. Let Sharon do what he wants. Tell the other Arab states to butt out or they're next. Forget Saddam for now. Use Israel as a staging area to take out Syria. Syria and Iran are both sponsors of Hezbollah. Watch how quickly Iran shuts up when Syria falls. Now, we don't need the Saudis. We got Syria for a staging area to take out Iraq. So the Saudis cut off our oil. Big deal. When we are looking at them from Iraq, do you think they'll have the nerve to fuck with us. What's the use of being the most powerful nation in the history of this planet if we're gonna let pissants in bathrobes and towels on their heads fuck with us.

How about long range. Let's start a Manhattan project for energy independence. We need to develop fuel cell technology. We need to tell the 'no nukes' buttheads to just shut up and build more nuclear power plants. We need to go from nuclear fission to nuclear fusion. We have the best economy in the world and the best technology in the world. We learned to harness the atom. We put men on the moon. We can achieve energy independence. All it will take is money and determination.

In the meantime, let's suspend political correctness, use common sense and admit that we are not fighting a war against terrorism. We are fighting a war agains Islamic terrorists, a war we can and should win.

And if our Muslim citizens and the rest of the world don't like it they can kiss our big ol' American asses!

Might makes right. And the winners write history.

Otherwise. Flush. Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, glorp.

Posted by denny at June 7, 2002 10:27 PM