Reap the whirlwind

 I’m not sure how to feel about 9/11 at this point. I’m one of the few Americans to be fortunate (or unfortunate depending on how you look at it) enough to be active duty on 9/11. I was a Captain at the time. I was in a place where I didn’t look at the news in the morning and didn’t find out about it until I came into work. People in the Navy shut down their bases and told everyone to go home for like three days.

In the Marines we canceled all leave, doubled security, and cleaned our weapons. Different strokes, I guess.

The job that I had at the time was what we called a staff-weenie job, and I thought it was very unimportant, compared to my peers who were company commanders. But, looking back I think it was important. As I’ve gotten older I’ve come to think that I was privileged to be in a position to help in some small way. I don’t think the ops were for nothing, I think some good things came out of it. And in war a lot of bad. The left (because they’re a lot of neurotic idiots) like to blame the U.S. and our support for Isreal for the actions of Osama bin Laden. When I come across these types I always ask them, “So if there was no Israel there would be no terrorism?” Not a single one of them said yes to that question. There’s going to be terrorism in any free society. This goes back as far as recorded history, this is nothing new to humanity. Our response to those that provided a stable platform for terror has been judged a failure, in the way that Vietnam was termed a failure, because to the liberals, all fights are Vietnam. Vietnam is the left’s mantra whenever military action is required.

It was required. And the action in Iraq was required, as it should be required for any active state that supports terrorists that engage in hostile action on United States soil. This is the real world boys and girls, and real people want to kill you, because you’re Americans. Let’s say the oil in the Middle East takes a big ol’ drop because of electric cars, people don’t drive into work anymore, and fusion reactors. And the United States basically tells the Persian Gulf states to go F themselves, cause we don’t need oil anymore. Do you think Muslim extremism will go away because no one needs the oil anymore, and the U.S. is out of the region? No, it’ll probably get worse, because of worsening economic conditions.

So I’ll go with the unpopular argument, It needed to be done. And we’ll probably have to do it again. Or we can just sit over here and wait for the next bomb, or hijacked airliner, or worse. No person in the military (except for the turds, which seem to be growing, especially in the flag ranks) thinks that we should sit over here and accept that kind of behavior from a sovereign state. If you attack the U.S., particularly civilian targets, reap the whirlwind. That should be our policy, and was.