Less Permission, More Preemption by Doug Wrenn

Less Permission, More Preemption

By Doug Wrenn

April 14, 2009

Ever the jokester, I used to have this little annoying habit that drives my wife nuts. When we're eating dinner, she would typically ask something like, "Could you please pass the ketchup?" I'd answer, "Yes," and keep eating. Although she's now hip to this routine now, back when it still worked, we would banter back and forth about three or four times this way before she would finally catch on and emphatically ask, WOULD you please pass the ketchup?" at which time I would answer, "Oh, certainly," and hand it to her. Of course, the difference is that she was originally asking if I was physically capable of handing her the ketchup, and later she asked if I would hand her the ketchup. There is a lesson to be learned here, not just in proper grammar, but in international relations, and if we can get Obama to stop apologizing, Hillary to stop giggling and Gates to grow a pair of cahones, maybe our President and Secretaries of State and Defense could (and would) learn something, and in so doing, maybe even save an American life or two.

Talk to most adult men and they can relay stories of the proverbial schoolyard bully that they encountered as children. Dealing with the schoolyard bully boils down to two alternatives: smack the little bastard in the mouth and be done with him, or forever fork over your lunch money to him. Transforming this vital life lesson into adulthood, you can act and enjoy freedom, or submit and endure bondage. Whether a kid with a fist, a thug with a gun, or a dictator with a missile, you're still dealing with a bully and the formula still applies.

The US is often accused of being preemptive and "going it alone." Actually, nothing is farther from the truth. Too often, we seek permission when we should be taking action. While on his recent America-bashing mea culpa tour, the globalist President thanked and praised the cowardly socialists of Europe for their leadership. Had I been talking to those backstabbing pantywaists, I would have been on them like Jeremiah Wright on white. More often than not, our so-called allies have given us modest assistance, waited for us to make the first move, or refused to help at all. "Leadership?" We saw this kind of "leadership" after the Madrid train bombings when our pals, the Spaniards pulled their troops out of Iraq and went wee-wee-wee all the way home. Adios, amigos. France's recent response to the reported "youths" (AKA: radical Muslims) torching anything that burned almost seemed to be just shy of bringing weenies and marshmallows on sticks to make good use of the fire. (After all, if you can't beat 'em, eat with 'em!) Bon appetite. The Brits under their abysmal immigration policy (not that our's is any model to emulate) are now so trembling in their boots to not offend anyone in the gradual Muslim take over of their country, as their new guests (and some of them hardly the peace loving type) now ridicule their hosts by calling their capital city, "Londonistan." Cheerio, sovereignty. "Leadership"? That's it, somebody yank out the plug on this guy's teleprompter and shut him up. We were all better off when he just stuttered.

As I write this column, tomorrow is Easter, but Captain Phillips won't be carving ham with his family back home in Vermont. Their most likely glued to the TV and wondering why our deplorable and abjectly inept Secretary of State went into a giggling frenzy as she spoke of piracy coming back after 200 years (Hint: it never went away, much like the Clintons!). Still in a lifeboat with his four pirate kidnappers, I doubt Captain Phillips, after a failed escape attempt yesterday is laughing. Back those 200 years ago, unlike other countries, we learned our lesson with these seagoing bullies the hard way. We stopped paying ransom, built a navy and filed them all away in Davy Jones's locker. Our ships have been relatively safe ever since. Captain Phillips is now being held hostage because other countries have been paying ransom, and we have a President who after initially threatening to shoot down North Korea's rocket, let it go off, accused Kim Jong (Mentally) Il of "breaking the rules," and taking his orders from China and the UN, somehow managed to restrain himself from calling the dictator a big poo-poo head. (Gee, I used to think he was only afraid of Michelle!) Meanwhile, he's talking nuclear disarmament, and reduction of our military resources by 20%, Iran is enriching uranium and only Israel seems to be prepared to do anything about it, and Yutzo is bowing to Muslims while dissing the Queen. Hey, who wouldn't grab one of our ships right about now? Meanwhile, at an unrelated recent press conference, Yutzo got annoyed when reporters inquired about Captain Phillips. Yutzo reminded the journalists that they were assembled for a different reason (other than worrying about the life of an endangered fellow countryman.) OK, OK, so go ahead and plug his teleprompter back in again! And some of you people still wonder why this closet-commie clown was so dismissive and callous to, and so bristled at the American flag while on the campaign trail? Think of a vampire when he sees a crucifix!

Veep Joe "Biden His Time," speaking on behalf of his boss, the young man who he so prophetically predicted would be "tested" (and fail!) said they're working on the situation. (Whew! That's a relief!) But what does "working on it" mean? "Hillary the Hyena," once regaining her composure over her erroneous observation of American history, said we will work with our international partners to address the situation. (My prayers for Captain Phillips have just been ratcheted up to a full-fledged Novena!) I guess she means the cowards, socialists, ransom payers and other stellar models of "leadership." As Secretary, Hillary really should really just do her job. (Somebody tell her to go get me a cup of coffee.) Meanwhile, back in the shallow halls of the Senate, an enraged John Kerry is threatening the pirates with hearings. This saga is rapidly deteriorating from bitterly tragic to downright dangerous. After all, even the Keystone Cops at least at nightsticks.

In a perfect world without these spineless, socialist, America-hating Democrats (so that the weak-kneed and bumbling Republicans would no longer be distracted by trying to make somebody like them all the time and would actually get some real work done), a strong, confident and sovereign America truly would be preemptive and actually put American lives and American interests first. That means no more asking for permission. That means vacating the UN, sending the shysters home to their respective despotic countries to hopefully preach about human rights to them for a while, and then filling the empty building with dirt and planting flowers in it, which is about all it's worth. We tell Europe that we don't care if they don't like us. Grow a backbone and spread some more liberty around and then come back and talk to us, maybe. Then we tell China, that don't we don't wish to lose Los Angeles, but ask them how fond they are of Beijing. Then we aim some of our missiles at them for a while, but only after painting big smiley faces on the tips, big enough to be seen by satellite, with a caption underneath saying, "Have a nice day!" Of course, right around this same time, we also tell the Chi-coms that we are fully aware of the monetary debt we owe them. Then, in the spirit of feisty "Old Hickory," Andy Jackson with Justice Marshall ("He made his ruling; now let him enforce it!"), we wish the Chinese well in trying to collect on that debt. And then we aim a couple more missiles at North Korea, and cure Kim Jong (Mentally Il) of his recent stroke once and for all, and in so doing, turn his launch pad into an Asian version of the Grand Canyon, kind of like what Israel did to Iraq a few years back, and Syria (theoretically) a couple years ago. Poof, problem solved. At the very least, Obama (and Bush three years ago) should have shot those North Korean rockets down, instead of making excuses that North Korea is just seeking attention. Just like an errant child who also seeks attention by continually picking up an object you don't want him to handle, as you constantly continue to take it away, sooner or later he'll figure out that it's just not worth his trouble of trying any longer. The definition of insanity is to repeat the same task and actually anticipate a different result. Clinton, Bush and now Yutzo are playing the same game with North Korea, and nobody's gotten the memo yet. Meanwhile, since South Korea now has a better military than it ever did, and in the recent past has expressed less than kind sentiments of the US, let's transfer our peacekeeping troops from the 38th parallel and turn them into a carnivorous drug cartel killing machine on the Rio Grande where the land pirates are also grabbing up Americans with impunity. At least Captain Phillips got some attention from our government. Yutzo changed the subject, Hillary giggled and Joe went into White House PR damage control mode. Yet, hardly anybody seems to notice or care that American citizens are now getting kidnapped and killed from both sides of the border, and the problem is not only growing, it's traveling north.

On his radio show recently, John Gibson, who has been to Somalia, has mentioned that the very communities which are spawned by, supportive of and benefited by international piracy are easy enough to spot. In an impoverished country predominantly made up of tents and ramshackle lean-tos, these pirate communities are the ones with the mansions, gates, luxury cars and armed guards. OK, so we play a game called "Clinton and Kosovo," and we bomb them into oblivion from 15,000 feet up, and without ground troops. Only we don't paint our planes with NATO colors. Let the stars and stripes be ever visible. And when the houses go back up, we hit them again, but not before dropping leaflets down on these filthy cretins, which read, "Remember the Blackhawk"

Piracy is an act of war, like terrorism. But as the dandelion pickers of "1600 Panacea Avenue" no longer like the term, "war on terror," I guess a "war on piracy" is out of the question. I couldn't care less what these clueless, limp-wristed pacifists want to call it to help them sleep all nice and warm and cozy in their little elitist, Marxist beds at night. War is war, and treat it like war, not like a crime. This same administration that wants to take our guns away would be far better off giving us a few more. Our "militia" as articulated in the 2nd amendment, which is about as endangered by these arrogant fools right now as Captain Phillips is, includes not just citizens in their homes, but our commercial pilots in planes, and yes, our merchant marines on water. And when attacked, shoot to kill, and keep the lifeboats lashed. Sharks are God's creatures too, and are also entitled to a good meal once in a while. Black flag, no quarter. No survivors, no trial, no fuss, no mess. You don't negotiate with the school bully. You take out his front teeth, go and enjoy your lunch and let him worry about how he will now eat his. (Try soup!) If the Hyena with the smirk as wide as her hips stopped giggling long enough to actually read some history instead of distorting it, this problem over a short time, would be resolved. When the second line of defense is called in (our Navy), same rules of engagement, upon sight, blast these ships out of the water and then sail away, letting "Jaws" clean up the mess. Negotiations in hostage situations should be the only exception to the no quarter rule. We give the pirates nothing. They give us the hostages, unharmed, and then take the pirates into custody to face a military tribunal. But if the hostage dies, the pirates die, period. No give and take, they give, or we take. While this may sound cruel or harsh if you're an emotion-driven liberal, obsessed with the short term, if you're a logic-driven conservative, focused on the long term, it will actually save lives. It's like the illegal immigrants in our countries, like cockroaches at a feast of free spilled garbage. Take away the all the feel-good, governmental give-away goodies, and many of them will soon self-deport once there is nothing here to be gained. Their just leeches with legs and no sense or regard for the rule of law or common decency, and ditto with the pirates.

"America First" should be our motivating and practicing policy in all forms, foreign and domestic. Despite party affiliation, our government leaders too often have the GOP mindset of continuously preferring to be liked instead of leading. Even out trade policy reflects this dysfunctional mindset. We are like the abused wife who keeps going back to the mutant husband she married for more beatings. We reduce our tariffs and try to play fair only so that our trading partners can raise their tariffs and bend or break the rules at whim. And then, like the abused wife who wears sunglasses to hide her embarrassing black eye, we smile, sing, "Kum-bay-ah," and dub this self-defeating absurdity, "free trade" so that we can save face. Our nation was once the pinnacle of all world trade. Now we are rapidly becoming a debtor nation, with a hallowed shell of an industrial base, and one that if it won't cause our economic demise in time of peace will certainly do us in during time of war, and all so that we can be liked. I recall an enraged Michael Keaton, playing a New York newspaper editor in the movie, "The Paper," yelling into the phone at his elitist global competitor, that he (Keaton) does not live in the "(expletive deleted) world," but in "New York (expletive deleted) City." It's high time that our nation wake up and break ranks with the closet-communists, elitists and world bankers trying to form a self-aggrandizing "new world," or "one world" order, and realize that we first don't live in the "world," but in the good old US of A. That begins by taking care of our people and our interests first, hence all those taxes we pay. That means we stop asking and start acting, and not lose any sleep about who does or doesn't like us. All this global regionalization fluff aside, it's still ultimately still a provincial and competitive dog-eat-dog world out there, and popularity need not apply, except for naïve, utopian buffoons who secretly desire to be prey, lest we not be considered "fair" by the so-called and grossly overrated global community.

And that's just not funny.

"Peace through strength"

"Trust but verify."

(Ronald Reagan)

Doug Wrenn