Post by Catdaddy on Oct 23, 2007 14:41:08 GMT -5
Ya gotta love this guy...a man after my own heart.
Catdaddy
General Richard Hawley is now retired, but was most recently the commander of the Air Combat Command, headquartered at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. He is a decorated pilot who flew more than 400 combat missions in Vietnam.
General Hawley is no longer required to be politically correct. His short speech is very much to the point.
The following are excerpts: 'Since the attack on 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.' The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sis tine 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 a liberal 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, liberal 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 liberal President 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. 'Afte r 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 groun ds is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this too. In the sixties and seventies, all the liberal pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class left-wing 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 liberal 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.'
6) Resolutions:
a. Never forget that what happened on September the 11th of 2001 was an act
of war.
b. Never sit silently by while someone tries to justify what happened on
that day as an understandable reaction to U.S. policies in the Middle East
or elsewhere.
c. Fly our nation's flag proudly - it represents this world's greatest hope
to move beyond the pain and suffering that inflict so many across the globe.
Richard E. Hawley
General, USAF, Retired
Former Commander, Air Combat Command
www.snopes.com/rumors/hawley.asp
www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hawley.htm
Catdaddy
General Richard Hawley is now retired, but was most recently the commander of the Air Combat Command, headquartered at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. He is a decorated pilot who flew more than 400 combat missions in Vietnam.
General Hawley is no longer required to be politically correct. His short speech is very much to the point.
The following are excerpts: 'Since the attack on 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.' The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sis tine 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 a liberal 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, liberal 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 liberal President 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. 'Afte r 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 groun ds is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this too. In the sixties and seventies, all the liberal pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class left-wing 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 liberal 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.'
6) Resolutions:
a. Never forget that what happened on September the 11th of 2001 was an act
of war.
b. Never sit silently by while someone tries to justify what happened on
that day as an understandable reaction to U.S. policies in the Middle East
or elsewhere.
c. Fly our nation's flag proudly - it represents this world's greatest hope
to move beyond the pain and suffering that inflict so many across the globe.
Richard E. Hawley
General, USAF, Retired
Former Commander, Air Combat Command
www.snopes.com/rumors/hawley.asp
www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hawley.htm
