(while I didn't write this, God bless it, Amen, and all that stuff...)
The diplomats were out in force this morning on various TV programs, radio, and the Net - telling us to all "be calm," that this "may take a long time before we can be certain who was to blame," and even longer to prepare a "measured response" with the approval of the "international community," of course.
I see.
And what I see is my children growing up in a world without the freedoms I have enjoyed for nearly fifty years. In fact, they have already had to give up many. As a kid, for example, I walked to school, went "trick or treating," rode to friends' houses on my bicycle, and went to bed without the fear of being kidnapped or molested.
Then crime entered the picture.
And our government studied it. Talked a lot about it. Built prisons. Filled them up. Put people there. Paroled them. They got out, did the same things again and we were shocked, until we habituated to it and it became a way of life. Now missing children, abused children, murdered children can be found on page 3. It's too bad, but it's the way it is.
Our lack of resolve to get tough on domestic crime led to a nation of child-prisoners. My stepdaughter doesn't have a bike. Why should she? She couldn't ride it anywhere. Halloween candy has been off-limits for years. Never know what they put in that sh|t, hey?
My two daughters in college are afraid to fly home. One wanted to work in New York, but now she fears that "opportunity."
Kids today can't be kids because they're under house arrest and that's our fault for not having the balls to make the penalty for violent crime so abhorrent that it is eradicated, if only because those who commit it are either dead or rotting in prison cells forever and ever. Amen. Instead, we have the ignominious distinction of being the most violent industrialized nation in the world. Wave the flag.
Today we are faced with the same challenge, except the criminals are out there instead of in here. They have more than pistols to make their point. And we are at the crossroads.
We can talk about the problem, study it, toss it into the bureaucratic mire from which it will never return, ala the Scottish air disaster, the U.S.S. Cole and the Kenyan Embassy, or we can stop it right now. We can assume a defensive position, eliminate freedoms, get used to it, and declare the problem solved. Or, we can say "no more."
How?
We can start by pulling out our list of terrorist organizations and rogue states. "A" is good place to start on any list. Take our carriers out of New York and Washington harbors and sail them within striking distance of the first on the list. Be ruthless, indiscriminate, and devastating. Make a statement: "Terrorism will be responded to swiftly and brutally and completely."
Afghanistan begins with "A," and they have bin Laden written all over them. The Taliban has harbored and trained his terrorists for years. We have begged on bended knee for them to stop and turn him over to which they have raised their middle finger.
But what if it wasn't bin Laden?
It doesn't matter. He's a suspect in this and other mass murders and we want to talk to him. Now.
So, we send the Taliban a Timex and a little note. You have 24 hours to produce him. If not, Afghanistan will become a part of history. There will be nothing left. Not one bridge, a factory, a home, or a person. There will be total and complete devastation.
It will be ugly and many of us will have to turn our heads as the bombing continues for months, perhaps a year or more. We will then turn to Iraq, Iran, Saudi, U.A.E., and the rest and tell them this: We don't want trouble, but if we find that you have harbored terrorists knowingly, and that have take any action against the United States, the same will happen to you. You will not exist except in history books. No if's, and's, or but's, and no warning.
But, what of China? What of Russia?
What of them?
If they want to get involved, they know what that means. The end of the human race. The history of both of those nations support a single conclusion: When pushed, they back down. It won't be different this time.
And if I'm wrong? It will be sad, but I'd rather die than be imprisoned and have my children imprisoned by thugs, cowards, and murderers, which is precisely what will happen if we do not end it. Now.
The diplomats were out in force this morning on various TV programs, radio, and the Net - telling us to all "be calm," that this "may take a long time before we can be certain who was to blame," and even longer to prepare a "measured response" with the approval of the "international community," of course.
I see.
And what I see is my children growing up in a world without the freedoms I have enjoyed for nearly fifty years. In fact, they have already had to give up many. As a kid, for example, I walked to school, went "trick or treating," rode to friends' houses on my bicycle, and went to bed without the fear of being kidnapped or molested.
Then crime entered the picture.
And our government studied it. Talked a lot about it. Built prisons. Filled them up. Put people there. Paroled them. They got out, did the same things again and we were shocked, until we habituated to it and it became a way of life. Now missing children, abused children, murdered children can be found on page 3. It's too bad, but it's the way it is.
Our lack of resolve to get tough on domestic crime led to a nation of child-prisoners. My stepdaughter doesn't have a bike. Why should she? She couldn't ride it anywhere. Halloween candy has been off-limits for years. Never know what they put in that sh|t, hey?
My two daughters in college are afraid to fly home. One wanted to work in New York, but now she fears that "opportunity."
Kids today can't be kids because they're under house arrest and that's our fault for not having the balls to make the penalty for violent crime so abhorrent that it is eradicated, if only because those who commit it are either dead or rotting in prison cells forever and ever. Amen. Instead, we have the ignominious distinction of being the most violent industrialized nation in the world. Wave the flag.
Today we are faced with the same challenge, except the criminals are out there instead of in here. They have more than pistols to make their point. And we are at the crossroads.
We can talk about the problem, study it, toss it into the bureaucratic mire from which it will never return, ala the Scottish air disaster, the U.S.S. Cole and the Kenyan Embassy, or we can stop it right now. We can assume a defensive position, eliminate freedoms, get used to it, and declare the problem solved. Or, we can say "no more."
How?
We can start by pulling out our list of terrorist organizations and rogue states. "A" is good place to start on any list. Take our carriers out of New York and Washington harbors and sail them within striking distance of the first on the list. Be ruthless, indiscriminate, and devastating. Make a statement: "Terrorism will be responded to swiftly and brutally and completely."
Afghanistan begins with "A," and they have bin Laden written all over them. The Taliban has harbored and trained his terrorists for years. We have begged on bended knee for them to stop and turn him over to which they have raised their middle finger.
But what if it wasn't bin Laden?
It doesn't matter. He's a suspect in this and other mass murders and we want to talk to him. Now.
So, we send the Taliban a Timex and a little note. You have 24 hours to produce him. If not, Afghanistan will become a part of history. There will be nothing left. Not one bridge, a factory, a home, or a person. There will be total and complete devastation.
It will be ugly and many of us will have to turn our heads as the bombing continues for months, perhaps a year or more. We will then turn to Iraq, Iran, Saudi, U.A.E., and the rest and tell them this: We don't want trouble, but if we find that you have harbored terrorists knowingly, and that have take any action against the United States, the same will happen to you. You will not exist except in history books. No if's, and's, or but's, and no warning.
But, what of China? What of Russia?
What of them?
If they want to get involved, they know what that means. The end of the human race. The history of both of those nations support a single conclusion: When pushed, they back down. It won't be different this time.
And if I'm wrong? It will be sad, but I'd rather die than be imprisoned and have my children imprisoned by thugs, cowards, and murderers, which is precisely what will happen if we do not end it. Now.
:disgust:
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