http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=18147Part One is exactly as advertised. If you are going to be offended by Profanity go read something else. There, I’ve done my part.
As I was doing historical research during the Christmas Holiday I ran across some national treasures that reflect the character of this Nation only a couple, or for some of you three generations previous. I could do a whole “then and now” comparison. There’s no point in actually doing that outside of the conversation that may follow this historical find.
One of the greatest Generals in the history of the U.S. Army was General George S. Patton. He was an excellent communicator. The traditional, effective and soldierly methods of communication he personified were still very much in practice when I served. This is why, despite my Christian upbringing I asked my Sister to “pass the snuggling salt” over my first Sunday dinner at home since I had left for basic training.
Profanity serves a purpose in the military. General Patton explained; “When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an Army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An Army without profanity couldn’t fight it’s way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.”
Throughout my numerous attempts to re-enlist since September 11th 2001 it was explained to me over and over again; “Sarge, this ain’t the same Army you knew”. In each case my response was; “Yeah, I know. I’m here to help get it back to where it needs to be”. We didn’t have stress cards, we had stress and lots of it. Typically the stress was inflicted by someone expertly and eloquently expressing himself through Profanity. If the Army was going to be able to effectively take the fight to our enemies each individual Soldier would have to be fortified with the ability to generate unmitigated brutality in an instant, even when sleeping. The only way that can happen is through effective instruction and failing that, experience.
Here we are more than Eight years into this World War and our military prosecutes Special Operators for using excessive force, bloodying the lip of a terrorist on the battlefield. Terrorists responsible for the deaths of thousands of our fellow citizens are now protected by civilian lawyers in civilian courts. We have a President who tells us that Poverty and lack of Civil Rights are to blame as the cause of the new World War. The fact is that our President is more concerned for the well being of our enemies than he is American Citizens. It is clearly evident that he believes that by elevating our enemies and their cause that it makes them less likely to commit violence against us and thusly the protection of Attorneys and the Law is many times more effective at securing this Nation than a Carrier Task Force or Divisions of trained killers who are allowed to do their jobs unmolested by their own.
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