In Golden Globes news, nobody cares. That concludes my report on the Golden Globes.
Dr. Martin Luther King had a legacy of non-violence. He was gunned down by another man that refused to share his vision. It saddens me that I refuse to accept his peaceful approach. I just do not believe it will ever work. May he rest in peace. I will not say any more about him since my words run counter to his, and today is his day.
The real world of pain can return tomorrow. Today is one more day of escapism. Apologies in advance, but on this day I am celebrating justified violence.
Let…It…rock…
“When I arrive…I will bring the fire…make you come alive…I can take you higher…let it rock, let it rock, let it rock…When I arrive…I will bring the fire…make you come alive…I can take you higher…let it rock, let it rock, let it rock…”
The ticking of the clock only meant one thing…Jack Bauer has returned.
As the NFL Playoff games wound down yesterday, the bucketshot of testosterone went all Sunday night as “24” returned to television for its eighth season.
There are many events going on the world. The world is on fire. Escapism can only last for so long. When it does, boy is it pleasurable.
For those that love to attack conservatives for being unable to separate reality from fantasy, I am well aware that 24 is just a tv show. Jack Bauer is fictional. That does not change the fact that his methods of doing things are right.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed is getting a civilian trial in New York City. A home grown terrorist in Fort Hood, Texas murdered 12 people. An underwear bomber nearly murdered 300 people on Christmas. Our government did nothing. It was private citizens on the plane that saved the day.
Our current government is willing to let people get blown to Kingdom Come all so they can get an ACLU endorsement that isn’t worth a d@mn thing.
Our enemies are cutting off heads and limbs. We can’t even make Al Qaeda go bobbing for underwater evidence, even though nobody died from waterboarding. When we waterboarded KSM, he gave us actionable intelligence that helped disrupt hundreds of other plots.
Maybe when liberals have their own homes blown up they will learn that self-righteousness does not save lives. Dealing harshly with the bad guys does. This is not nationalism or jingoism. It is realism.
Very few people know anything about military matters. One person who does is Colonel David Hunt. If you want to be scared spitless…let me rephrase…whether you want it or not, you need to be…his attitude toward torture is a very reasonable one. He wrote the book “They Just Don’t Get It.” The book should be mandatory reading for everyone.
Colonel David Hunt confessed on live television that in his 30 year military career, he had to do it twice. He said we should stop being ambiguous about it and just say we do it. He made it clear that he was not proud of doing it, but he believed he did the right thing, and would have done it again. If we are going to do it, be honest about it.
Colonel Ralph Peters is another man that knows what he is talking about. I met him the other day, and I have just started reading his new book, “The War After Armageddon.” I interviewed him a few months ago, and will have more to say about this fine hero in the coming days.
As he says about his book, it starts dark, gets darker, and ends as dark as possible. His concern about Jack Bauer is not the methods, but the fact that in the real world, there often is no happy ending. We cannot sit back and wait for Jack Bauer to show up. In the real world, either we kill the bad guys, or we all end up dead.
Colonel Hunt and Colonel Peters are retired now. Yet they are more in the know than most people on this planet. Another one we need to know is Colonel Bill Cowan. He put it bluntly when he said, “I am against waterboarding. Let me say this again clearly. I am against waterboarding. I prefer electricity.”
Colonel Cowan does not have bloodlust. Far from it. He wants the bad guys killed so that no more Americans end up dead.
The current administration does not have a zero tolerance policy. They will allow a certain number of dead Americans. Perhaps had 300 been murdered on Christmas, they would have taken action. Maybe that number is high enough. A dozen dead in Texas is too low a number. Maybe the number is in between.
As the current administration plans to close Guantanamo Bay and give terrorists full legal rights, our enemies plot to murder us. Several soldiers punch a terrorist in the face, and the soldiers end up on trial. This is liberalism in its ugliest most harmful form.
Jack Bauer would be beating up bad guys. He would be jamming his gun wherever he needed to as long as it got results. He does not do it out of joy, but out of necessity. He would not apologize, and he would not back down in a Senate hearing when questioned by pompous gasbags that know nothing.If he called Barbara Boxer “mam,” she would shut up and take it.
Welcome back Jack. America has been overrun by liberal pansies. This is the new real world.
I think for one more day, I will stick to fantasy land where capturing and killing terrorists and saving American lives is more important than smug, lofty proclamations of moral superiority.
Mr. Obama loves his children. God forbid Sasha or Malia were kidnapped, he would be hiring 1000 Jack Bauers to take any measures necessary to keep them safe.
The world will be a better place when he drops his cool facade and begins to show an ounce of emotion about anybody else’s children.
Go get ’em Mr. Bauer. Get every last one of them.
As for our real soldiers, the president cannot prosecute all of you. Do what you have to do.
eric