Torture is Just Fine With Me!

Whatever it takes! Toothpicks under the fingernails, 12 volt automobile batteries hooked to the testicles, sleep deprivation, I do not care! Whatever it takes to get the information we need to find and kill the terrorists who threatened this country.

Look, if you want to delude yourself into believing that if we don’t torture our enemy combatants, the enemy won’t torture ours, then you go right ahead. But don’t ask me to swallow that load of malarkey. I live in the REAL world where enemies of the United States torture and kill members of our armed forces at every opportunity. In the world in which I live, (the real one) the image of the US is worth spit! And… unless, and until, we get serious about winning the war on terror and commit to whatever means are necessary then we will continue to have our service men and women picked off one, or two, at a time until those jelly spined political prostitutes in Congress force the President to withdraw our troops… in other words… "cut and run". The very idea is sickening to me.

Do, I sound angry? I hope so, because I’m way past angry! I’m fuming at the lack of strength in our Congress to pursue this war much more aggressively. Forget a strategy for withdrawal. We have a strategy! Victory, for heaven’s sake! We win and THEN we come home. If we don’t utterly destroy that mass of cancerous tissue in the human body called “Islamofacists”, we will only find ourselves right back where we are today... with more American lives given, and more blood shed, to finish the job we should have finished this time!

Come on, folks! How difficult is that to understand. Take off the rose-colored glasses and see the world for what it is. A rotten, dangerous place. Hey, we’re the good guys! We’re trying to make the world safe for democracy!

Take a look at the right side of this page, in the sidebar. Notice the yellow box which carries a running total, updated as often as necessary, of the number of terrorist attacks since 9-11. That's reality, Dear Reader.

This is certainly not the America I grew up in. That was an America that would have taken the battle to the enemy’s doorstep and knocked down their house. That was an America that would, and did, use nuclear weapons to save the lives of thousands upon thousands of American lives. That was an America that did not cut and run! That was an America, whose people valued their freedom for they understood what it meant to be free.

I understand there are only 14 members of Congress who have sons or daughters serving in the Middle East. That tell you anything?

We cannot disengage with this enemy. It cannot be done. If we withdraw, the bloodletting will only follow our troops home to the shopping malls, the hotel ballrooms, the schools of our children, the sports arenas, the transportation hubs, the largest cities, and on and on. No, understand folks, this is a war in which the last man standing wins! This war will go on for decades… and then some. As long as there is a nutcase Islamofacist out there he, or she, will come after us. They want you dead! They want me Dead! They want your kids dead! They want America dead, and gone, and in it’s place a Caliphate of Islam in which you will bow your head to the ground five times a day toward Mecca. Is that what you want? Well, is it? For that is exactly what we are trying to stop, right now, with the war in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and remote places all around the globe.

Believe me, there is no alternative for America but victory. We cannot survive defeat. If we lose this war, we lose our country. Everything we are, everything we have been and everything we hope to become in the future wil be gone. There will be no America

So, ask me to rethink my position on the use of torture.

OK. I have re-thought it!

I’m still for it. I’m also for battlefield nukes, and white phosphorous, and “Daisy Cutter” bombs, and whatever else it takes.

There is only one way to fight a war! Fight to win! There is no acceptable alternative. None at all!

“Longstreet”