General Hawley - collectivist/socialist; 2 stiff drinks away from being a full-blown communist.
--- In [email protected], Omar Khyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From General Hawley....he no longer has to be politically > correct.......................... > > > > > > So much for "politically correct" nonsense.... if this offends you, > get a grip on reality!! > > 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, and everything is relative." > > > "Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, and nothing is relative. Say it > with me now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're goodâ doesnât > 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-A-D > > > 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." > > > > The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill > > > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
