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2009
Soap Box Archives Bear By The Tail There was a man who went to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears. He thought that if he went among them thinking they were not really thousand pound killing machines but affable fuzzballs who were just misunderstood by man that he could become a part of their family. The arrangement worked fine until one day the man did something the bears didn't like and they attacked him and his girlfriend and ate them. True story. There is a lesson to be learned from this sordid tale. The man actually thought he was doing a good thing, showing the gentle side of grizzly bears but he forgot one thing… A grizzly bear living in the wilderness is a wild animal and will always be a wild animal and will not tolerate a human being inside his living space and no amount of human love and patience is going to change that. It's simply not in a man's ability to live among wild grizzly bears and survive for very long. Before you cherry pickers get your poison fingers poised over the keyboard, let me put a caveat on the analogy I'm about to offer. I am not calling the Islamic people wild animals. But in my humble opinion, our President is a bit like the grizzly man when it comes to dealing with the Islamic extremists. I think that in spite of his great intellect and charismatic personality, he is naive and idealistic in thinking that they have been misunderstood by previous administrations and all it takes is someone who understands them and feels their pain. In his first 100 days in office, he bows to the Saudi King, berates America in the presence of the Arab world, sits quietly in the same room with Latin American dictators while they lash out at the U.S., publishes our interrogation techniques, gives the war a kinder gentler name and dismantles the domestic anti-terror infrastructure. Mr. President, you are walking among grizzly bears and I don't think you even know it. You are kowtowing to people who kill their own children for breaking the rules, who treat women like cattle and cut the heads off their captives. They only understand power, and you're only showing them meekness. Do you know that all the gracious overtures you have made are perceived as weakness in the Arab world? You have, however unwittingly, given them a world of public relation coups and intelligence without even knowing or maybe caring. Bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia was a big screw up. Maybe not among your fawning supporters in the U.S., but among the Arab world where whatever caption or voiceover they desire can be added to a Middle Eastern sound bite to make you appear as being subservient to an Arab king. You have exposed our interrogation techniques to the enemy so that they will be able to know what to expect and train to hold out past the point they know we will not pass. By changing the name of the war to sound like some Boy Scout outing, you have belittled the men and women fighting the War on Terror and basically told our enemies that we really don't have anything against them, although they want to destroy us. It's all America's fault anyway. By dismantling the safeguards President Bush put into motion to protect the homeland from attack, you have severely weakened America's ability to detect and deter another attack. They're out there, Mr. President, they're circling our defenses looking for vulnerable places to attack, and with your naivety and flower child attitude, you have made their job much easier. Watch out for the grizzly bears, Mr. Obama P.S. Could you please give us a Secretary of Homeland Security who will actually try to protect the homeland rather than spending their time inventing new semantics and playing parlor games with our future? And while you're at it how about an uh… non-arrogant, uh… uh… articulate Press uh… Secretary. What do you think? Pray for our troops God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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