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I don't know if this is somebody's internet pass around BS or not but it is pretty good... ...
General Hawley's Politically Incorrect Message
General Hawley, is a newly retired USAF 4 star general. He commanded the Air
Combat Command [our front-line fighters and bombers] at Langley AFB, VA. He
is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct. A true
patriot!
"Since the attack [9-11], I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such
surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too.
Here they are:
1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative. " Listen
carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me now
and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean,
"We're perfect. " Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with
all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest
beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you
need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens.
2) "Violence only leads to more violence. " This one is so stupid you usually
have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the
truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective,
unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half measures lead
to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through, professional,
well executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see,
afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial,"
not "reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love. " Dead.
3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community have failed us. " For
25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and
now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us.
Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner,
the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to
gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all,
(they reasoned,) you can see a license plate from 200 miles away. " This is
very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we
were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You
have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all
our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to
infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just
have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop
himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. 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 a story they'll be telling for years.
4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us. "
Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry
for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and,
ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see,
are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohammed
Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing
grounds is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. In the
sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were
upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to
get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. It's the same
today.
5) "Any profiling is racial profiling. " Who's killing us here, the
Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article
saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family
living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to
return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed.
Please come back. Let's all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and
think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the 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. "
SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered
brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their
immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political
science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper
sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I wish I had one that says, "No
More Pearl Harbors. "
General Hawley's Politically Incorrect Message
General Hawley, is a newly retired USAF 4 star general. He commanded the Air
Combat Command [our front-line fighters and bombers] at Langley AFB, VA. He
is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct. A true
patriot!
"Since the attack [9-11], I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such
surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too.
Here they are:
1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative. " Listen
carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me now
and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean,
"We're perfect. " Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with
all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest
beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you
need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens.
2) "Violence only leads to more violence. " This one is so stupid you usually
have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the
truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective,
unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half measures lead
to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through, professional,
well executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see,
afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial,"
not "reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love. " Dead.
3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community have failed us. " For
25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and
now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us.
Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner,
the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to
gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all,
(they reasoned,) you can see a license plate from 200 miles away. " This is
very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we
were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You
have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all
our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to
infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just
have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop
himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. 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 a story they'll be telling for years.
4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us. "
Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry
for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and,
ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see,
are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohammed
Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing
grounds is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. In the
sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were
upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to
get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. It's the same
today.
5) "Any profiling is racial profiling. " Who's killing us here, the
Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article
saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family
living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to
return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed.
Please come back. Let's all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and
think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the 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. "
SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered
brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their
immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political
science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper
sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I wish I had one that says, "No
More Pearl Harbors. "
