04 April 2008

Where's Patton when you need him?

"We need more Patton, and less patent leather!" - Michael Savage



I couldn't agree more. Political correctness is destroying this country. 40 years ago there was a real need for political correctness and affirmative action, however today America is about as fair as I can imagine it being. While I'm sure that there are pockets in America that still have racial issues, most Americans have moved beyond these issues. I know America is not perfect and I know what it's like to be pulled over for being a young Puerto Rican driving an Acura. I also know what it's like to walk into a store and be followed because I look like I might steal something. But honestly, while these things used to bother me they are no big deal. I wasn't lynched. I don't know what it's like to be beat up for the color of my skin. No one I know has been murdered for whistling at a white woman. (or any person of any race for that matter) While that is part of America's ugly past it is past.



We are in the middle of a war for western civilization. Call it World War III. Or if you like calling the Cold War WWIII, call it WWIV. Radical Islam is dangerous. They do not desire compromise. They are not willing to stop with the pull out of our troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. They want to remove Israel. (who have a much greater historical claim to the land by the way) They want all of Africa, all of Asia, Europe, and what's next? America's move to the left and our compromises with socialism have set us up for defeat by the radical islamists. There are many great men and women in the United States Armed Forces. I have served with many. Many of my friends are still serving. A very good friend, a 'brother from another mother' is in serious danger every day. Personally, I am considering very seriously putting the uniform back on. Honestly, the primary reason is financial, but I feel a pull back to the military. There is something that I miss. I miss working with the greatest men and women in the world. I miss working for people who put my needs before theirs, and I miss taking care of my own soldiers.



I know that there are great men and women in the US Armed Forces. Even though most of our political leaders are self-serving hypocrites, the US military will be there until we are defeated by our politicians. We can not be defeated militarily. But I'm coming back to the quote from Michael Savage. Where is General Patton? You see, Patton didn't buy in to political correctness. He saw a soldier who he thought was weak and slapped him. I don't think he was right for doing that, but he either thought that the soldier was a coward, or he thought slapping him might get him back to being battle ready. Probably number one, but who knows. But he was not afraid to do whatever it took to win the war. He was the one man feared by Hitler and for good reason. Patton's forces inflicted over 8 enemy casualties for every 1 received. In comparison, the rest of the Allied forces received about 1.4 casualties for every enemy casualty inflicted.

When fighting an enemy on foreign soil, you must crush the will of the enemy to resist. What happened in Vietnam and what is happening now is this. Our enemy is not on the same level as us skill wise, but they don't have to be. They simply have to wait us out. They have learned that we will not do whatever it takes to win. In the US Civil War, the North crushed the will of the South. Militarily, the North was stronger yes, but they were fighting on 'enemy' soil. The South merely had to wait the North out. In order to win, the North had to be brutal. This is an unfortunate consequence of war, but wars are won on enemy soil by being far more brutal than who you are fighting. Since we were fighting the Nazi's in WWII, Patton had to be extremely brutal. But scary as it seems, the enemy we face now is more dangerous. General Petraeus has done an excellent job fighting the terrorists in Iraq. But the 'empty suits' in Washington need to get out of the way, and let our military crush the terrorists. It needs to be devastating, and it absolutely CAN NOT be politically correct. If we try to fight a P.C. war, we will lose. But we will not lose it on the battlefield. We will lose it in courtrooms and in Washington D.C.

Washington! America is asking for leadership! Please, stop trying to fight this vermin with good will and crush the head of the snake. Stop fighting the politically correct war, fight ugly and you WILL bring our troops home in a year, but you'll bring them home in victory instead of defeat. Fight like Patton, decimate our enemy, and THEN bring our troops home.

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't know what Americans today would think a Patton. He certainly is the type a warrior we need now-a-days. But, as much as he was handcuffed back then, can only imagine what it'd be like in this day and age.

Raed a biography on him a few years back; great soldier, far from perfect man.

Anonymous said...

Hope e1 is havin a nice weekend. Youngest and I drove into SA today to go to the zoo, but, toooooo crowded; shoulda got an earlier start. Ended up goin to the Whitte Museum. Pretty cool stuff, great kid science area. Gonna hafta dust off the ol rock polisher; oh...we bought rocks. If I remeber right L has one and Nest was thinkin 'bout it. W/ rock polishin, patience is the key.

Anonymous said...

If I remember correctly, I was picked on about the interest in rocks. Allow me paraphrase...

R:'thanks for geology lesson....my youngest had a rock tumbler'.

N: 'I thought I was a geek. A rock tumbler?'

Yeah.

Nestor said...

The Witte is cool. Haven't been there in a while. Last time we were there for a birthday party. The kids loved the tree house, and the rest of the kids section.

Anonymous said...

Happy Sunday! Beautiful here!Windows are open, D's out gettin propane for the grill, leaf blowers blowin, and the Tigers are 0 and 5! Spring is here!!

Thought for the day: I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

Anonymous said...

The sponge question is a good one. In a related thought, my youngest asked me today, "why do they call sea food, sea food?"; ok, maybe I was jumpin the gun on thoughts a mensa potential.

Graet day here as well, alittle warm tho.

Anonymous said...

Stan,

The *ONLY* reason you're pro-PC is because, like *MOST* liberals, you're anti-free speech.

Don't be afraid of dissentn opinions, embrace 'em.

"I didn't say half the things I said." Yogi Berra

Anonymous said...

Mensa..lol. All our kids are geniouses...it's the very nature of bein a parent.
Just had our first barbeque of the season. Steak and chicken. Yum. All 3 LOTR on today and Star Wars, too. What to do...

Don't forget about drafting before Thursday! :)

Anonymous said...

Hey Reck, I just posted 7 caption ideas at Docs. Hurry up and get that puter fixed, I miss you over there.

Anonymous said...

K, now I'm missin you here! Quiet weekend....

Stan Rosenthal said...

Reck -
> ... you're pro-PC ...

Straw man.

Stan Rosenthal said...

The weather has been quite excellent here in Houston for the past week or two. I've had my doors open everynight. I can't wait for my next electricity bill. ;-)

Nestor said...

This should be a good month utility wise. It should start getting hairy soon though. The gas bill will drop, the electric bill will go up.

Nestor said...

I was just reading that Oliver Stone going to make a movie about George Bush. They have casted W, HW, Laura and Barbara, Tony Blair and Condi. Some proposals.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Rove.

Laurence Fishburne as Colin Powell.

Don Rickles as Dick Cheney

Stan Rosenthal said...

Nestor, it would be good casting, but Cheney deserves no respect.

Anonymous said...

Stan, are you sayn Cheney's a hockey puck? BTW, if you defend political correctness, then you are pro-PC my friend.

Nest, Oliver Stone doin a movie 'bout Bush would be like havin Stone do a movie 'bout 9/11. Wait a minute, that happened.

L, Yes, I miss my *DAILY* brainwashn at TH. Will get one this week. Actually was goin to today, but plans changed.

Anonymous said...

I think Thompson could play Cheney pretty well.

Nestor said...

I couldn't think of anyone to really play Cheney, Rickles was as close as I could come up with. I first thought about James Earl Jones for Powell, but I don't think he could lose the weight. I also thought about Sam Jackson, but he would have to not scream. I don't know if it is possible for him to go through a movie without screaming.

Anonymous said...

Lol! Hey wait...did he scream in Star Wars? I thought that was really bad casting. When I look at Obi Wan I don't think "hey, it's Ewan McGregor!" But that's how I was w/ Jackson. Have we had this discussion already?

Anonymous said...

Denzel could maybe pull off Powell. I think Thompson and Cheney have the same sort of cadence in the way they speak.

Nestor said...

I don't think he had any fits of screaming in Attack of the Clones, but I think he fought the urge. In Revenge of the Sith, I think he did scream a little when he was fighting the Emperor. I think you didn't buy his character because you're expecting him to start screaming for no reason, but that would be unfitting for a Jedi.

Maybe Fred Thompson could play himself. I don't know if they could work him in, but I think they could. Other cameo's could be Ahnold as the Governator.

Anonymous said...

Yes, that must be why I didn't buy his character...that's very funny.

Boy this movie's sounding better by the minute!

Stan Rosenthal said...

Reck -
> ... if you defend political correctness, then you are pro-PC my friend.

What the H E double hockey stick is "political correctness"????

I defend commonsense.

Stan Rosenthal said...

Though I said it about Cheney, I think Bush would best be represented by Rodney Dangerfield playing his "role".

No offense to Rodney.

Anonymous said...

Reck,
Since you thought my sponge question was a good one (I know you were kidding), here's the response I got from my friend to whom I also posed the same question. sheesh. ;)


"The depth of the ocean is not significantly affected by the presence, or absence, of sponges. As members of the phylum porifera (which you remember from Cooper's biology class), the apparent mass of a sponge is actually >99% water. In effect, the water exists in and around the dry mass of the sponge.

Try this experiment; fill your sink with water, and mark the level. Then take a completely dry natural sponge and submerge it in the water, and measure the level again. You'll notice it appears the same. The dry mass of the sponge is so negligible it displaces only an imperceptible quantity of water. Now, if you remove the WET sponge from the water, the level will go down roughly the volume of the apparent mass of the sponge. In this case the sponge has retained it's apparent volume in water, minus it's dry volume.

Another consideration is the total mass of sponges in the world relative to the total combined volume of all the oceans. HELLO... sponges account for, like, .0000000001% of the water in the world. It seems unlikely that they could have any practical influence on the level of the ocean under any circumstances.

So even if you removed all the sponges from the ocean while they were still wet, it's hardly likely that even that would have an effect on the level of the ocean.

Then there's the water cycle to consider. Removing all the wet sponges from the ocean at the same time, assuming that were somehow possible, would theoretically reduce the level a small amount. But ultimately the sponges would either drain themselves, or someone would squeeze them, and that water would eventually find it's way back into the ocean. Or, they would simply "dry out", ie the water would evaporate, go up into the clouds and come down in the form of precipitation, again ultimately returning to the ocean and restoring the level to it's original height.

Of course, you could put all the wet sponges into a rocket ship and send them into space. But that's beyond the scope of this discussion.

So in summary, the ocean would be for all practical purposes the same depth with or without sponges."

Nestor said...

Linda,

I think she took you a little too seriously. It's interesting and funny at the same time.

Anonymous said...

It's a he, and he was bein a smart alec!

Stan Rosenthal said...

The Moon is a sponge, and it affects the level of the oceans. ;-)