For those who don't know General Hawley, he's a newly retired USAF
4-star general. He commanded the USAF Air Combat Command [our front-line
fighters and bombers]. The Command headquarters is at Langley AFB, VA.
General Hawley
is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct.

His short speech is very much to the point. The following are
excerpts:

"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. D-E-- Well, you get the idea.

"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'."

Truth and Objectivity are Mutually Inclusive

GOD-damned right Two thumbs up!!!!

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Handloading is a means to an end, but the end never seems to stay still -ME

SO true!