Now that the nightmare of artificial love known as 7/7/7 is gone forever, people can go back to living their lives. I have scratched Eva Longoria off of my potential wife list, and now the healing process can begin.
There comes a time to be reasonable and a time to get militant. There is a time for diplomacy, and a time to just get mad dog mean.
I was in a car crash about an hour ago. I am absolutely fine, and both cars sustained minor damage. My driver’s side was hit. The fellow never saw me until it was too late. As for why I am so calm about it, within seconds I realized that nobody had died. My driver’s side door is not opening, so until I go to the mechanic , I will have to exit out the passenger’s side.
Yes, I could have ripped the other guy’s head off, although his girlfriend had a look on her face that said she was probably going to have words for him. I do have a reputation as a hot head, but sometimes, an icy cool approach is appropriate. The guy apologized, and I immediately told him, “We’re both fine, I’m not going to rant and rave, let’s just figure this out.” Neither of us wanted this to happen, and instead of fisticuffs flying, we calmly exchanged information, and then went about our day.
I am the furthest thing from a kumbaya singer, but many situations that have the power to escalate and blow up would be be better off if diffused. Calm, rational, thinking and an easy going voice can make the best of a bad situation. If people could resolve their political differences the way this fellow and I resolved our automobile accident, life would be much simpler.
Having said that, there are times when dialogue does not work, which is ironic, because this is the time when some people desire dialogue the most. Dialogue is useful if productive. Dialogue for the sake of saying one engaged in dialogue is foolishness. The end result is the end result. Results are the end. Dialogue, when effective, is a legitimate means to that end. For some, dialogue is the end, which can lead to disaster.
Given that I have a tendency to relate every problem in society to football, allow me to do so again. While watching a documentary of the 1983 Oakland Raiders, I enjoyed watching the clips of their Superbowl thrashing of the Washington Redskins. Redskins quarterback Joe Theisman was bruised, battered, and beaten to a pulp. Late in the game, with his arm in a sling, he quoted what the Raiders had done to the Redskins. He stated, “They handed us our @sses on a platter…and the tray was bent.”
I do understand that football is not war. It is a game. However, I wonder what would happen if the media covering the Iraq War today were covering that Superbowl.
“The Raiders lead 38-9 in the 4th quarter. However, the Redskins are mounting a furious comeback. The Raiders are on their heels, unable to score any more points. The starters of the Raiders are in a state of rebellion, refusing to take the field. The Raiders are having to send in their untested backups.”
Now what actually happened is that when the game was in hand, it was (and is) ethical out of decency to the other team to not run up the score. It is also good to give the backups a taste of glory. Yet the media would continue.
“The game is far from over, and at this point it seems it will never end. The Redskins are the defending Superbowl champions (they won in 1982), and all they need is 30 more points to win two years in a row. The Raiders are on the sidelines crying, most likely because they know that despite some successful battles, they are on the verge of losing the war.”
Actually, they were crying tears of joy at winning the Superbowl.
“Except for the scoreboard, the Washington Redskins are winning by any other conceivable measure. The Raiders should consider firing their entire administration and admit to the American people that they tried their best, but winning by 29 points on the scoreboard does not count as a victory against the brave Redskins, who have a lot less points, but gain a first down every now and then.”
Football does not sugarcoat things. The Redskins could have jumped up and down in front of the cameras in celebration, acting like they won. They could have showed the media pictures of dejected Raiders players walking off the field in defeat. All they would have to do is replace the actual game with footage of the Raiders in 1962, when they were terrible. Anyone can doctor footage.
So how is it that America can be winning the War on Terror, and so few people know that? Simple. The media is reporting wins as losses. This was done in Vietnam, and it is being done in Iraq. Facts do not matter. Getting a good story, no matter how false, leads to higher ratings. Perhaps the Redskins should have been denied the right to go to the Super Bowl to begin with because the Dallas Cowboys were slightly more popular, and brought better ratings. All that would need to be done is to convince the American people that the Cowboys defeated the Redskins, regardless of what players on both teams were saying.
The American left loves to say they support the troops, but would they really support them if they were weak, ineffective, and unable to accomplish their goals? How can the left say they applaud a bunch of failures? On the other hand, if the troops are succeeding by every possible conceivable set of metrics, why bring them home until the job is done?
The American people cannot let the left lose Iraq like they did Vietnam. It is absolutely important that the Public Relations War be fought just as tenaciously by the supporters of the war as the soldiers fight in Iraq. The soldiers will not lose the War on Terror for us. We cannot allow ourselves to lose it for them.
I am not going to call the left unpatriotic. I will just say that they are profoundly wrong. They see the definitive struggle of our lifetime as some concept involving trees. Conservatives see Islamofacists as more of a threat to world civilization than some 14 year old girl trying to put mousse in her hair with a product that some scientists say will cause harm in about 1000 years.
There is no need to talk about the Earth concert going on this week because the participants and supporters are irrelevant. The real people saving the Earth this week are the American soldiers in Iraq. Sure, the Jayson Blair Times, National Palestinian Radio, and the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation will report America is losing the War on Terror. They are wrong.
Saddam is dead. So are his sons. So is Zarqawi. So is Arafat. Bin Laden and Zawahiri are on the run. Ask any credible source what is going on, and the honest answer is simple. For every lost American soldier, which is tragic, 18 terrorists are being killed.
America is handing the terrorists their @sses on a platter…and the tray is bent.
eric
I took on a little project a few weeks ago after debating some liberals on our success’s in Iraq.
So I went on line and chated with about 50 soldiers in Iraq. One of the questions I asked all of them was , ” Is the media getting the whole story to us ?”
To make a long story short , the average answer was; ” only about 20% of the time.
And these men are not happy about it.
And since the since the liberal mainstream media is about 80% of the mass, the numbers make sense
Just voted for you.
That bit about covering the Iraq War like a football game is pretty funny.
If someone does get hurt in the car wreck, keep in mind I’m an “ambulance chasing shark of a trial alwyer.” ;-)