Any one who has
served, or is serving under, the colors of the United States of America
and their families must be frothing at the mouth about this one right
now. Although it fits right in with Obama’s gutless and faithless
administration.
The Navy Seals are the creme de la creme of the special forces of
this country, along with the less well known Marine Force Recon of
which there are only a few platoons in the entire Marine Corps, some
very bad dudes…ditto the Army’s Delta Force…so secret that families of
these people don’t even know what they do for a living. The Air Force
has its Special Operations Command. All of these people routinely
perform missions all over the globe in the international war on terror
that many of us would call impossible or suicidal.
Force Recon, for example, operated far behind enemy lines for
extended periods back when I was in the Corps. These men don’t have the
luxury of determining whether their actions meet someone’s idea of
‘rules of engagement’ and shouldn’t have to. NONE of our combat
personnel should! We lost a SEAL team to such nonsense in Afghanistan
when three goat herders chanced upon a SEAL operation. The men had to
make the determination of whether or not to kill them. That indecision
cost the lives of three of the SEAL team, eight additional SEALs and
eight Army special forces troops. Marcus Luttrell was the only survivor
and he writes in his book, “LONE SURVIVOR”, about the futility of
having to second guess the reactions of PC bureaucrats both in and out
of the military.
Anyone who has ever had to face that eternal nano-second of when or
whether or not to squeeze that trigger knows just what I mean.
The POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BRIGADE in our government, and especially the
one operating in our military, is a pernicious cancer eating away at
the confidence and morale of our fighting men. It’s more akin to giving
aid and comfort to the enemy than anything else I can equate to.
A Navy Seal team captured Ahmed Hasim Abed, one of the most
thoroughly detestable individuals occupying space on this globe.
Somehow or another Ahmed got a fat lip instead of the bullet that
should have adjudicated his massacre of four Blackhawk security agents.
The PC POLICE in the MILITARY, and at the ever dense and un-American
State Department from whence many of these ridiculous operational
restrictions originate, sent out the word to hang these heroes, or at
least hang them out to dry to the ardent applause of our enemies world
wide. These men refused to be humiliated at non-judicial punishment,
having permanent blots placed on their records, and instead insisted on
a hearing at a full Court Martial.
Shades of Haditha…the only thing missing here so far is the smarmy and detestable John Murtha.
ENOUGH!! We have to stop this monkey trial. These men should be
having decorations hung on them instead of having to fight for their
careers. We must stop this pathetic nonsense now!
Please take the time to write or email your Representatives and
Senators now. Additionally, the addresses of the Secretary of the Navy
and the Chief of Naval Operations are below. I’m sorry I don’t have an
email for them. Perhaps one of you could supply it.
Secretary of the Navy
1000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20350-1000
Chief of Naval Operations
2000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20350-1000
Our Soldiers, Sailors and Marines are being asked to do an
incredibly difficult job under far less than optimal conditions, under
a leadership sadly lacking courage or integrity themselves. Please
don’t let them get away with this immense injustice.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2009