I quickly hacked out a little thesis for the new direction of the military Friday (it was originally only going to be one or two paragraphs but then I just kept feeling like adding to it). It got a surprising reaction for something I wrote so quickly which I guess is just because people want simple answers to complex problems. I wasn’t looking for a simple answer, though; I was just trying to come up with what can we realistically do militarily knowing a good portion of the American populace likes to whine.
Whining while the conflict is on helps the enemy because they think we’ll give up, but whining after we devastate the enemy gives the enemy no comfort. So, the simple solution is to destroy all we can and leave. There will be lots of whining about how we left so many people dead and homes in ruins, but, with the troops out of the way, the whining no longer works as a weapon in support of the enemy. Right now, they think we’ll go in, occupy, and then leave with our tail between our legs because we’re weak-willed. If we just destroy tons of stuff and then head home without worry about how we left things, the enemy is not going to keep attacking us thinking, Sure, we’ll all get slaughtered by the Americans, but then pundits will chastise them for months afterwards and they’ll fell really bad about it – thus the last laugh will be ours!
Remember: These people will try to make a victory out of any of our stumbles no matter how ridiculous (Osama thinks he won the Cold War), but even they can’t turn us feeling bad about slaughtering their people into a success.
Now, I’d love to help the people of the Middle East have freedom and democracy, but I just don’t think that’s realistic because of the whiners. Because so many Americans are going to whine if we try to stay and fix things, we’ll just have to settle on devastation with no rebuilding. The only way to combat the whine is to do quick, destructive military operations and get out before the whine can start in full force, leaving many innocent foreigners dead and dying. Because liberals whine, innocent people are going to have to suffer and die. I’d like to think we could get things done even with the whining, but Iraq seems to show that not to be true. The whining keeps making the enemy think we will give up and leave, so they keep attacking.
So, if we don’t want to adopt a much harsher military strategy that will leave all other countries in ruins, should we shoot the whiners? I dunno. I really wonder how they were dealt with back in the day. My guess was that during the turn of the century conditions were so harsh that many of the future whiners died of whooping cough or something before they were old enough to properly undermine our country. Then again, maybe there were a lot of whiners during WWII. I mean, we were bombed by the Japanese, yet we lost thousands and thousands fighting the Germans. Are you telling me there were no sissies whining about that? Well, I guess I could look up evidence on that, but I like anecdotal evidence even better, so I’ll call my Grandma and ask about it tonight. Even though she wasn’t in the military, she worked hard for the war effort and even risked her life. If someone were to call her a “chickenhawk” for wanting a war with the Nazis, I’d punch that guy so hard in his nads that no existing medical science would be able to help him have kids.
That’s one hard nad punch!
If you have living resources to consult as well, ask about the whiners of WWII. Hopefully the wisdom of the greatest generation will help us deal with the idiots of our day.
Oh we had LOTS of whiners before, during, and after WWII.
There have been whiners for a long time, but they haven’t had just a good forum for their whines.
As my brother says, the biggest problem in the USA is too much food.
People don’t have to worry about where their next meal is coming, so they have the time to whine about nonsense.
Frank, excellent post! We need much much more nad punchin for whiners! Nad punchin’ doesn’t work for sissies–they don’t have any or they are so small it would be a miracle punch to cause any significant damage–plus–they don’t use ’em if they have ’em anyway so who cares! More destruction of our enemies and then a hasty withdrawl back home!
Unfortunately, some of the whiners actually killed bad guys, but they come home, get fat, and write books about dudes picking up a child, turning them upside down and inserting the kids penis in his mouth. Then they say they don’t want to have anything to do with chimpy mchitler, but they show up after an invite and act like a completely boorish, rude asshole. But they don’t do that until after they are elected, so their entire state can realize that the dude they elected is just another ass clown who fantasizes about really weird stuff.
Other than that Frank your idea is just fine.
excellent theory…simple and effective…Frank, you must be a closet genuis….In reference to captamerica’s post, I voted for Allen 🙂
“Hopefully the wisdom of the greatest generation will help us deal with the idiots of our day.” – Doggone well put, Frank.
Insofar as whining goes, we could offer cheese to go with it, but they’d whine about constipation. In fact, Algore, Kennedy, Kerry, Pelosi – all look like they haven’t had a bowel movement for awhile. If we can have a prescription drug plan for seniors, why not a natural laxative plan for liberal whiners? Frank should definitely bring this up with his future cabinet.
Since the fall of laws concerning Sedition, the Whiners have had free reign to complain about everything, assuming that the Constitution implies equall economic gifts for all. The Constitution guarantees equal opportunities, but assumes it is up to the individual to partake of them.
This has created permanent anger at the country, while the repeal of Sedition allows them to bitch about everything.
Thanks, Frank for linking to the piece about your Grandma. I don’t think I read that before, because that was about the time I started reading you. That should be required reading for whiners! Terrific woman.
Link it at least annually.