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A
Marine General's Speech (Said like ONLY a Marine could say
it !)
Speech
by former ACC Commander, Gen Hawley:
"Since
the attack, 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. In about half
a day, the entire world would be a ghost town, and the
United States would look like one giant line to see "The
Producers."
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. D-E- Well, you
get the idea.
3)
"The
CIA and the rest of our intelligence community has 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. Mohamed Atta, one of the
evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing
grounds (I'm sorry, one of the "alleged hijackers,"
according to CNN. They stopped using the word "terrorist,"
you know), 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.
At least, that was my excuse. It's the same today. Take
the Anti-Global-Warming (or is it World Trade? Oh-who-knows-what-the-hell-they-want
demonstrators). They all charged their black outfits and
plane tickets on dad's credit card(!) before driving to
the airport in their SUV's.
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. I think we're all crushed. Please come back.
With a cherry on top? Why don't they just change their
names, anyway? It's happened in the past. Think about
it. How many Adolfs do you run into these days? Shortly
after that, I remember watching TV with my jaw on the
floor as a government official actually said, "That
little old grandmother from Sioux City could be carrying
something." Okay, how about this: No, she couldn't.
It would never be the grandmother from Sioux City. Is
it even possible? What are the odds? Winning a hundred
Powerball Lotteries in a row? A thousand? A million? And
now a Secret Service guy has been tossed off a plane and
we're all supposed to cry about it because he's an Arab?
Didn't it have the tiniest bit to do with the fact that
he filled out his forms incorrectly three times? And then
left an Arab history book on his seat as he strolled off
the plane? And came back? Armed? Let's please 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 tome
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 Hiroshimas"? I wish I had
one that says, "You First. No More Pearl Harbors"!
Semper
Fi!
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The
year is 1903, one hundred years ago... what a difference
a century makes. Here are the U.S. statistics for 1903....
The
average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven.
Only
14 Percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub.
Only
8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A
three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven
dollars.
There
were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved
roads.
The
maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama,
Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily
populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents,
California was only the 21st most populous state in the
Union.
The
tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The
average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour.
The
average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A
competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500
and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000
per year.
More
than 95 percent of all births in the US took place at
home.
Ninety
percent of all US physicians had no college education.
Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which
were condemned in the press and by the government as
"substandard."
Sugar
cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee, fifteen cents a pound.
Most
women only washed their hair once a month and used borax
or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada
passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the
country for any reason.
The
five leading causes of death in the US were:
1.
Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The
American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The
population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30.
Crossword
puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
There
were no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
One
in ten US adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent
of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Coca
Cola contained cocaine.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over
the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist,
"Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to
the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is,
in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
Eighteen
percent of households in the US had at least one full-time
servant or domestic.
There
were only about 230 reported murders in the entire US.
Contributed
by Charles Akin, CHS ‘55
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