The militia is time honored and noble. The real militia would fight AGINST these insurgents, terrorists, and guerrillas. The old main stream media and anti-gun-rights crowd are trying to – and sadly succeeding at – sullying word “militia” in an attempt to demonize the militia and the Second Amendment. Destroy the image of the militia by equating it to these insurgents, terrorists, and guerrillas, and it becomes easier to destroy the image of those of us who support the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and who prepare in the event the militia needs to be called out.

Call these bad guys what you will, but don’t call them a or the militia!

Woody

No wait a minute, now I remember … we SHOULD HAVE killed him three years ago!

“I have become what I beheld and am content that I have done right.” In addition to everything else, when the situation warrants it, I endorse even the quotation of Kevin Costner.

Gen. George Patton

If you don’t believe in standards — good and evil — you end up thinking in situational terms. In short, things aren’t either good or evil, you’re facing a series of situations where you merely have to judge proper conduct according to the formula “what we can get away with”. If it isn’t evil, it’s permitted. You just have to get people *USED* to the idea.

Who is stopping our US military from killing the bad guys? Their name should be out in public so we can hound them to their grave for tying our military’s hands behind its back.

Both of these statements seem utterly out of place. Puritan, while I don’t disagree with your statement, it does no good here. The violence in Iraq is not good vs evil; it is Sunni vs Shia. You cannot label the Sunni good and the Shia evil or vice versa, they are merely different. It would be a lot easier if this conflict fit nicely into your good vs. evil, dark vs. light Star Wars fantasy world but unfortunately Iraq is a lot more complicated. The problem isn’t that our troops aren’t allowed to kill the bad guys; the problem is finding the bad guys. And then there is that pesky problem of who is a bad guy. The Sunni shopkeeper who killed a couple of Shia who were breaking into his store…the Shia who killed Sunni thugs who raped his daughter…the lines…they’re so blurry…so gray…

Oh, f*ck it, it’s so much easier (and more fun) to just kill ‘em all.

mountainmanbob

Today entire societies are eunuchs.

I still have the balls to endorse or order most anything that seems required, and I very simply don’t see the problem with total war, once one has identified an incorrigible enemy. I endorse eradication of villages and cities that fail to be utterly pacific. I endorse the production and use of all the weapons of mass destruction one seeks to deny to others. I endorse supplanting recalcitrant native populaces with one’s own colonies. I endorse forcing imams and ayatollahs to blaspheme at gunpoint whenever doing so serves a useful purpose. I endorse the destruction of the mosques of radical imams. I endorse the employment of every act one seeks to punish. I endorse the acquisition of a monopoly of terror. I don’t endorse being worse than one’s enemies; I endorse being better than one’s enemies: stronger, deeper, more evil–and more beautiful, too.

But back then multi-culturalism and PC were not invented yet. Countries, Presidents, generals and some politicians had “balls”. Today entire societies are eunuchs.

Exactly. “Eunuchs” is a much better term than Steyn’s “feminization”.

Who is stopping our US military from killing the bad guys? Their name should be out in public so we can hound them to their grave for tying our military’s hands behind its back.

retired on November 27, 2006 at 11:59 PM

Um, Bush. Uhh, Rumsfeld. Uhh, the military leadership. Congress. America. The “international community”. The State Department. The U.N. The IAEA. Academia. The ACLU. Guilt. Altruism. Self-sacrifice. Agnosticism and self-loathing. Multiculturalism and political correctness. Moral relativism. Nihilism. Immanuel Kant. William James. John Dewey. “Just War” theory. Noam Chomsky. Ward Churchill. Cindy Sheehan. The guy I just swung a dead cat at. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg…

Soon enough they will get what they didn’t know they wished for. By then it will be way too late.

But so were Japan in 1947, and Germany in 1949, when their respective constitutions came into effect.

Many in the Left and among the “cut ‘n’ run” crowd, all afire about our “unjust” war, don’t think that there is such a thing as evil. They believe that ethics are situational.

If you don’t believe in standards — good and evil — you end up thinking in situational terms. In short, things aren’t either good or evil, you’re facing a series of situations where you merely have to judge proper conduct according to the formula “what we can get away with”. If it isn’t evil, it’s permitted. You just have to get people *USED* to the idea.

Mind you, to succeed you may have to get those who *DO* recognize the reality of good and evil to compromise their values…but, if you can recruit enough folks with the same squishy standards you have, you can skate by on sheer numbers.

It took the “peace-now” crowd a couple of years to label the war a “quagmire”, but — in the absence of actual news coming out of Iraq — they’ve pretty much succeeded, and so this whole Baker Commission thing is understandable.

As I’ve written on at least one other thread here on HotAir, the Baker Commission is an abnegation of leadership. We gather together enough unemployed former civil servants, talk up their pedigrees and resumes, and attach an inordinate amount of buzz to their opinions in the press, and *VOILA’*, you have something folks who are charged with leadership can point to as they drop the ball.

We don’t have leadership. We have blue-ribbon panels. We don’t have an electorate. We have demographics and focus groups…and a legion of pimps ready and willing to sway ‘em.

We’ve pretty well gutted democracy.