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This is awesome. Recieved as an email by a friend, who posted it in his Xanga. I can't testify to its veracity, but I can attest to its truth.


Words of Wisdom from a Four Star General

What a magnificent and insightful view of what this war on Terrorism is actually about. General Hawley, is a newly retired USAF 4
star general. He commanded the Air Combat Command [our front-line fighters and bombers] at Langley AFB, VA. He is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct. A true patriot!

"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.


(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 "Hi ya, 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 Hiroshima's?" I wish I had
one that says, "No More Pearl Harbors."

Seems to generalized to me... hes not actualy investing any real thought into what he said. Its just a bunch of pop-politics motivated banter, however pleasing to my conservative ears. It doesent really fly in the real world.

A better example of General officership would be that marine who said it was "fun to shoot them [the taliban]". He actualy explained what he was thinking a bit better and ti made some pretty good sense.