Saturday - December 08, 2012

What, No Pearl Harbor Post?

"Hey, did you guys forget it’s December 7th?” - Rich K.

No Rich, did not forget, but didn’t really see the point. Don’t always want to be a “samizdat” blog anyway.

Pearl Harbor was over and done long before I was born. Japan is no longer an enemy. There have been plenty of other wars and other attacks wherein we lost lots of servicemen that are equally deserving of remembrance but get almost none.

So what am I supposed to point out? That we were played for suckers in the early 40s? Gee, that hasn’t happened since. That our Socialist president at the time was very probably in the know and let it happen anyway? Gee, where have we heard that one ... just 90 days ago for the latest one. Can’t call it an act of terror, when it was a sneak attack that opened a war between nations. Around as many people died on 9/11, but our government won’t even call that terrorism at this point, and thinks that telling us that secretly killing one old goat buggerer in his bedroom ended the entire thing. Yeah right. So go out and lie your ass off and play CYA for months when that’s proved wrong ... and the majority of Americans simply accepts it.

So what would a Pearl Harbor post be for?

Perhaps I should do a post-Pearl post that celebrates the unified resolve of this nation at that point in time to actually defeat such an enemy, regardless of the time, cost, or loss necessary. That’s something that no longer exists ... America is afraid to fight, and even more afraid to win. Every last sub-group would cry the blues and claim instant mistreatment. And our own government is far worse. Pussy politics and political correctness have turned us into a nation of lazy chickens, far past the point where we have to spend an extra couple hundred thousand PER BOMB to make sure it not only falls exactly on a specific target, but that it doesn’t blow up one bit more than necessary ... only to fret and wet our pants when the talking heads on the news chastise us for supposed collateral damage. We’ve completely forgotten that collateral damage is half the damn point. And this is why we have troops rotting in Kosovo for nearly 20 years, why the Afghan campaign has taken more than a decade and is no closer to being over than it was on Week 4 (even though 2 months was ample time to destroy the entire country), why Iraq took ages, and why Somalia got away with piracy for years. We The People are afraid of our own might, and have lost our sense of righteousness and all of our resolve. If any war takes more than a single month we’ve grown tired of it.We are lead by cowards and morons, many of whom are blatant enemies to the American creed. Outright communists and anarchists, thieves and whores, there isn’t an inch of spine in the whole bloody bunch. And we keep right on re-electing them, never asking or wondering or demanding improvement ... on the news yesterday was the bit that the Presidential election cost TWO BILLION DOLLARS. Seriously? And where did that money come from? No way it was from donations from the people. So today let’s play Fiscal Cliff, and let our leaders send us, the brainless fat assed lemmings that we truly are, over the cliff. Because who is going to stop them? Will Boehner’s tears be enough? Please. The Dems are evil and the GOP is worthless, and We Teh People can just go the fuck to hell and pay out every cent we make to make the government and it’s thieves even richer, as they vote endless largess to themselves and the worthless layabout scum that are their constituencies.

We are doomed.

No, no Pearl Harbor post. We don’t deserve one. That America is dead.

The men who died there were for the most part not heroes. They were blown to smithereens, burned up, and drowned because they were caught with their pants down. At best 5% of them had a chance to fight back. Their deaths were tragic and horrible. Sad for them, but they have been remembered and honored for 70+ years now. The attack was the punch in the nose that awoke the sleeping giant. That giant is dead. Long gone. Other than lobbing a few dozen ICBMs at some attacking nation (which we would never, ever, never do), there is simply no way the USA could respond in a similar fashion today. We don’t have the factories. We don’t have the steel mills. We don’t have the ability to make our own clothing, ships, and so forth. We own 87 bombers, most of which are older than I am. All that awesome electronic stuff the military spends trillions on? It’s all made in the Philippines. Not in Texas. All of that production has been stripped away and sent to the other end of the world, and then our government has put in environmental rules to keep things pure that make it impossible for such production facilities to be created. Fuck, we can’t even make a single new nuke reactor or oil refinery in 40+ years. Every last commercial ship we own comes from either Norway or South Korea. Except for some tugboats and tenders that are built down the Gulf Coast. Gee, big deal. And in truth, we hardly even own any ships any longer. The vast majority of the merchant marine is foreign. We don’t even make our own damn hand grenades, the supply of which (as we saw in the last Gulf affair) can be curtailed by political differences with the producing nation. And I’m not even going to get started on the energy issue. Holy shit. Cost overruns and pie in the sky fantasy designs have given us a solid gold navy that is an absolute money vacuum. Super high end tricksy stuff that needs never ending high dollar maintenance, just to be marginally functional. And so on, and so on, ad nauseum. We’ve pushed excellence so far that it’s reached the point of non-functionality. But what you need to fight a real war is mass. Mass numbers of plain old ships, bombs, missiles, bombers, rifles that work, etc. We make one ship or one soldier do the work of 20, yet what happens when either one goes down?

America no longer stands on it’s own feet. America no longer has feet to stand on. There is no giant to awake, and no usable club for him to wield, and no leadership even willing to call an attack an attack.

So let’s just go back to sleep. Maybe you can read about Pearl Harbor in a book. For now. Until history gets rewritten and even that gets buried under a rock because there weren’t enough lesbians, bisexual gender amporhs, and other niche people in the service at the time. Plus there were no women, blacks, midgets or Apaches in any command position. Therefore everything they did and thought was probably wrong. And that kind of shit WILL happen - just ask Thomas Jefferson, that horrible twisted slave raper.

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