Note: I originally wrote this article after the mass shooting/terrorist attack in San Bernardino. While this article is somewhat dated the underlying principle, that liberalism is incompetent and tends to defeat itself, is still true.
At a time on a day when most other authors in the
blogosphere are hard at work on the most recent of the public mass
shootings—San Bernardino being the one on the top of the news at the moment—I
find myself just too much in the mood to think of other things. Any other
things. Not that the shooting is unimportant because certainly it is. Sometimes
these things happen and you can just tell that the ramifications will be broad
and long lasting.
Yes, I suppose if I had better survival instincts as an
aspiring author I’d be out there talking about Radical Islam and the potential
connections to Farooq Saeed. Or I could talk about how the death obsessed
Liberal leftists freak shows think the only thing to do is ban guns; because
that’s always so successful, in spite of the fact that California has really
strict gun laws. I could talk about my own theory involving how so many of
these mass shootings are done by people cranked up on powerful psychiatric
drugs.
But as important as all of that is; you know what? I’m just
not feeling it today. So instead, just to get us started on what I do want to
write about, let us ponder the words of a great American soldier and hero.
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.” — General George
S. Patton
If you are into military strategy this is pretty simple in
concept. For those who aren’t I will take some time to explain before we get
into my favorite topic of defeating that rabid disease infecting the
governments of earth known as Liberals. Indeed the above quote by the estimable
general was inspired because, in part, of the defeat of the Liberal known as
Adolf Hitler.
According to Wikipedia — “The Atlantic Wall was an extensive
system of coastal defense and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942
and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defense
against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from Great
Britain during World War II. Hitler ordered the construction of the
fortifications in 1942. Almost a million French workers were drafted to build
it ... The fortifications included colossal coastal guns, batteries, mortars,
and artillery, and thousands of German troops were stationed in its defenses.”
This so called wall stretched all the way from the northern
tip of Norway clear down to Spain and covered one thousand six hundred seventy
miles. Got that? None of it could move. All of it was fixed fortifications. It
was composed of troops manning guns too big to take to where the action was unless
the Allied invasion of Europe didn’t happen to be right where they were.
The length of the stretch of beach in Normandy where the
Allies came ashore was, Utah to Sword beach, somewhere in the neighborhood of
fifty miles. Giving the “superior” German engineered guns an average of ten effective
miles on each side of the landing zone, that would put one thousand six hundred
miles of guns and troops out of range for combat. Thousands and thousands of
troops, guns, bunkers, and supplies costing billions of dollars at today’s rates
were just sitting there quietly on the beach during the invasion with nothing
to do but pig out on warm beer, sauerkraut, and schnitzel. As far as stopping
the invasion there was absolutely nothing they could do except ponder the
supposed greatness of their fuehrer. As a result the Allies punched through the
Atlantic wall and achieved a solid foothold on the continent after about four
and a half hours of really tough fighting.
Many World War Two historians, both professional and
amateur, consider this to be the greatest military blunder of all time. I as
one of these concur most fully. I’d go a bit further though—and consequently
much closer to the point of this article at the same time—and state that it is
my most emphatic and humble opinion that it’s a damned good thing somebody did
not successfully assassinate Hitler. Had that particular dummkopf gone to the
great bratwurst factory in the sky early in the war, he might have been
replaced by someone in the ranks who was just a little less idealistic and a
lot more deadly and competent. The German generals were brilliant, from the
militaristic point of view, at accomplishing as much as they did in spite of
the lunacy of their orders.
That’s the reason we aren’t speaking German. There was an
incompetent boob at the top whose authority and leadership was considered to be
so brilliant that people took his word as the most brilliant of laws and not to be questioned. And in that
consideration was sown the seeds of their own eventual destruction. Or putting
it another way; Hitler, with his own mind and hands, made possible the
conditions of the defeat of Germany. He couldn’t have been more destructive of
his own ends had he intended to be. Tragic and catastrophic as it was while it
was in action the “Ten Thousand Year Reich” only lasted about twelve years.
Throughout history there are a lot of these brutal dictators
who come in, bust the place up, and then die quickly to the sounds of cheering formerly
oppressed countrymen. Sometimes they last longer and sometimes they don’t last
quite as long. But there is one thing they all have in common. “This too shall
pass.” And depending on how bad they are they seem to pass more quickly on
average.
Take a look at that. Most of the ones we think of as the
worst didn’t last very long. When they passed the bounds of their own countries
and started on the conquest and destruction of other countries, most of the
rest of the world ganged up on them and put them back in their place. Quickly.
Yes, some like Castro continue to hang around for far too
long. Then there are the tiny but deadly few, like Mao, with tens of millions
of deaths to his credit. Both of those guys kept their insanity within their own borders though.
There’s no shortage of iron fisted dictators to
mention in the history of the world. But if I were in the life insurance
business I would never, ever even begin to consider covering any of them.
In the fact of their high mortality rate we have the single
virtue of tyrants. Most of them piss so very many people off in their despotic
rampages that it’s an extreme hazard to be anywhere near them. Just as much for
the sake of what they might do to you as what might happen should you get
caught in the wake of an assassination attempt involving explosives.
People often don’t have the choice of being trodden on by
tyrants who don’t give a damn about little niceties like human rights. But they
never like it. With everybody that they step on they make another enemy who is
out to see the end of their rule, if not their very life. The worse they are the
quicker it seems to come on average.
Yes. There are a lot of things wrong with the world today.
But I tend to be a big picture kind of guy and look at the broader view of
humanity. The old saying that twenty percent of the people cause eighty percent
of the problems applies here in that the world won’t suffer the extremely
violent tyrants for long. And the tyrants themselves very often set up the
circumstances that lead to their own demise.
We could debate forever about the issues of President Bush
invading Iraq and never really get anywhere as to whether it was a mistake or
not. There is plenty to say about it and the causes and consequences of that
war. But the singular thing that cannot be denied is Saddam Hussein, for all
intents and purposes, committed suicide. Oh sure he was captured and hanged by his enemies,
but prior to that he did everything to make the world and his countrymen very
angry at him. He did everything to make people come after him and nothing to
soothe their fears and hatred of him. The same kind of thing applies to Muammar
Gaddafi.
Radical Islam is a problem that needs to be handled but I
don’t worry too awful much about it. Oh certainly there will be people who
think me naïve or uninformed for this opinion, and I’m okay with that. However
I find it a particularly comforting thought that these kind of demented psychos
often sow the seeds of their own destruction right into their own vicious
actions. They are their own worst enemy.
The worst of Liberalism is based on an almost total lack of sense and thus tends to defeat itself if they have enough rope. All that's necessary on our part as decent people is to help it along.
Follow the links below for the rest of the series:
The Anti-Liberal Techniques: Part One
The Anti-Liberal Techniques: Part Two
The Anti-Liberal Techniques: Part Three
The Anti-Liberal Techniques: Part Four
The Anti-Liberal Techniques: Part Five
The Anti-Liberal Techniques: Part Six
The Anti-Liberal Techniques: Part Seven
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