- The stupidity must stop now if we are to survive.
Funny. That's exactly what we've been saying.
Posted on 11/11/2005 9:57:13 AM PST by XR7
In the early-1970’s I was teaching a karate class and was sparring with a fellow black belt who threw a blind back-kick and Crack! You could hear my nose break like a dry stick in a campfire. Not wanting to make him feel bad, and trying very hard not to act like a sissy, I ran in the bathroom, shoved toilet paper up each nostril, returned, and continued sparring. Mere minutes later. . . Crack! Another blind kick went through my guard, and my nose broke in a different spot. I awoke with a bag of ice on my bloody face and a number of concerned faces staring down at me on the floor. That is exactly how I feel today.
I have kept my mouth shut through the whole Cindy Sheehan debacle, where she trounced on the legacy of her brave, noble son to push her liberal agenda. I have quietly listened to the idiocy of some proudly proclaiming, “I totally support our troops, but not that lying George W. Bush, or the illegal war,” which to me is exactly the same as saying, “Yea Team! Score that T.D.! Boo, Coach! I hope your quarterback gets sacked, however I do so like him and the other players and totally support them, but not you. Yea team! I cheer for them, but I hope you lose, Coach!” That kind of reasoning is very hard, actually impossible, for me to understand.
We all need ice bags on our faces right now. The stupidity must stop now if we are to survive. Our media and our politicians must start putting America first, not political parties, not ratings.
In the recently captured and translated 14-page letter from the al-Qaeda’s number two leader, al-Zawahiri, who is Usama bin Laden’s right hand man, written to the al-Qaeda’s rising star and head of insurgent forces in Iraq al-Zarqawi; al-Zawahiri states that more than half the struggle is taking place “in the battlefield of the media.” (To read the 14-page translation click here) Think of those words: “in the battlefield of the media half the battle is being fought.” Just think about how self-righteous newscasters and network producers are allowing themselves to be used by the enemy, on a daily basis. What is hilarious is that they see themselves as “cutting edge.” What a joke: They are as cutting edge as a knife made out of wet spaghetti.
The American news media, as a whole, plays right into the enemy’s hands on a consistent daily basis, while we are in immediate danger of much worse than September 11, 2001.
The letter speaks about continuing the fight in Iraq after the Americans are “defeated and expelled.” That is right, the al-Qaeda expects to “defeat and expel” us from Iraq, and then extend the jihad, or holy war, to surrounding countries and set up a caliphate in Iraq. Al-Zawahiri speaks about Iraq being the spiritual fighting grounds for this great war and talks about the centrality of the War in Iraq for the global jihad and making it clear this goes far beyond oil. He speaks about winning hearts and minds there, albeit temporarily until they are in total control, and the need to fight politically as well as militarily.
There are some Monday morning quarterbacks who keep calling this a war for oil, a war based on lies, but the only lie here would be continuing to call ourselves the greatest nation on earth, if President Bush and our leaders were stupid enough to listen to them, or listen to the braying and naysaying of the snorting, prancing 2008 Presidential contenders who recently started banging their antlers on trees. Political ambition before nation. Self before societal survival. If our commander-in-chief didn’t stand firm, we would
Good one.
Dead on as usual. Happy Veteran's Day Mr. Bendell.
Funny. That's exactly what we've been saying.
Bullsh!t! This is some kind of emotional nonsense. A coach with a self-serving, opportunistic approach can completely destroy the tradition, pride, and moral fortitude of any team. This is certainly an anology born from the mind of some emotional misfit.
I sincerely hope I have misunderstood you...are you defending those leftists who say that they support our troops but not their mission?
Hell no! I'm saying all these stupid analogies by emotional misfits should not distract us from the fact that leaders are not infallible and self-serving leadership really can destroy the best efforts of any team. If you allow propaganda to talk you out of being vigilant, you lose.
Well said.
War, by itself, is not noble.
A war is noble if the cause is noble.
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