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J.DAVID GALLAND: AMERICA'S RIP VAN WINKLE SYNDROME

Many people are not going to be happy with the context of this article. The
truth can be a prodigiously large and hauntingly difficult pill to swallow. At
the end of the day, however, it is all we have, the truth, and it can hurt.

Hopefully, truth will not always be so painful. I am, however, convinced it is
far more fearsome, in varying degrees, to the comfortable American, awash in
conveniences, fast this, fast that, and drive-up everything's. But, when we
delude ourselves as a society, and a people, for a protracted period of time
and re-elect corrupt politicians, who clearly do not represent the best for The
United States, I think we need to look within! At the same time, we allow the
emotional opinions of self-serving idiots, and media notables, demagogues with
bizarre thought and conduct processes, to serve as the compass that guides our
lives like a heretofore directionless ship, foundering in the rough sea. A
human entity devoid of autonomy, that is without the sense to reason and to
think independently. As American poet and writer, Henry David Thoreau,
described those of his t! ime, who would not take a political stand against
slavery, men of straw.

Many Americans, sadly, fall quite comfortably into the aforementioned
categories. Those who do found themselves in great numbers, amongst the
blissfully ignorant and completely taken-a-back, on September 11th. At the same
time, many of us were not surprised at these tragic events; we expected this
kind of offensive operation against the United States.

My fellow Americans, on September 11th of this year, you had no more, and no
less, the amount and quality of military force, and intelligence collection
ability, than you clearly indicated was an acceptable level, in relation to its
cost, that you cared to have.

In recent weeks, your Congress and your Senate approved a multi-billion, yes,
billion dollar coffer to serve as a "jump-start" financing plan to initially
fund the war in Afghanistan. Only months ago, a multi-million dollar increase
proposal for the U. S. Navy's operational budget was considered substantial. By
whom you ask? Your Congress and Your Senate; your philandering Gary Condit,
your "less than masho" Barney Frank, your "swim champion", Ted Kennedy, the
disbarred former Chief Executive. Do I need to continue?

While mulling over the Navy's request for funding to defend America, your
elected politicians approved an 85 Million-Dollar study on Breast Cancer
Research for the Navy to conduct. Now, whom do you blame for spending defense
money on this research, instead of buying more aircraft, ships, equipment, and
missiles? In deference to somebody, anybody involved in this debacle, the
Secretary of Defense and The Secretary of The Navy both opposed this
expenditure and they deserve credit. At the same time, Hillary Clinton, the
wife of a well known "stad -extraordinaire" and cigar connoisseur, played
the "Seksist - Card" and accused both esteemed secretaries of being insensitive
and irresponsible, and of course demeaning to women and seksist. I think that
is a sort - of package deal. Unfortunately, the media did not cover the
aforementioned facts closely enough, so most folks, between watching "White
Wash Dan Rather" and his ilk, never learn of this stupidity. So, there you go,
but it surely does not end here.

Those of you who watch the CSPAN channel, if your memory is clear, may recall
how the people in charge of the military, as they say, "the heads of our armed
services", practically begged and grovelled before our elected officials. They
were only asking for more money to fight terrorism and to maintain a strong
defense. Sounds logical and simple, right?

When the heads of the Intelligence Services appeared before the same elected
officials, they vehemently declared and informed your representatives that
terrorism, directed at the United States, was the Number 1, threat. The
Intelligence community heads made your elected officials fully aware that they
did not have the funding to create and sustain intelligence networks that would
preclude attacks on America. The fact that a clear danger existed that could
not be countered, given current funding initiatives, apparently did not impress
the elected elite. It apparently did not impress most Americans either, or
perhaps you were busy watching the Tele-Tubbies or Big-Time Wrestling, mutants
both.

Top military leaders appeared before your elected officials and pleaded for
more funding to maintain an acceptable level of military readiness and to be
given the money to conduct sorely lacking combat training. Literally, military
generals were begging your elected officials for beans and bullets and this is
inexcusable.

More inexcusable, I assert, when funding for sensitivity training and
consideration of others training is readily available. I suppose this is
because many brilliant reports have determined that military men are seksist
omophobes and have overly aggressive personality traits that paint them as
insensitive. Social engineering projects within the uniformed services are
given top priority, while many soldiers have not fired a weapon on the
qualification range in years. Bayonets, locked tightly in secluded arms rooms,
rust in their scabbards, and are referred to by some soldiers as, "that pointy-
sticky thing that goes on the end of my gun"! If this does not illustrate
training shortcomings to the reader, then let's go to Rio de Janeiro for the
ice fishing tournament! America, does this bother you?

When the military asked for funding, to equip soldiers, to buy the tools of war
necessary to protect America, and to ensure soldiers achieve and maintain
proficiency with these tools, many are labelled "extremist" and part of a vast
right-wing conspiracy. At the same time, your elected officials have warm
hearts and hurry to send your soldiers just about anywhere; when a school in
Kosovo needs a new playground or a sandbox, or when the residents of some poor
African country are in dire need of root canals, or when Laotian tribesmen need
free chiropractic care. At the same time, a soldier's family members wait with
toothaches on "space available appointment" lists for months.

America's protector, its last line of defense, is its standing military force.
Obviously, young American men and women must enlist in the military to maintain
the strength of the nation. I see this as a very honorable calling, but I am
among the few who do. America's response to recruitment was to close and
prohibit the ROTC programs at universities and high schools. Recruiters are
barred from campus and high school property. In this fashion, America has
clearly indicated that they will not allow their sons and daughters to defend
their country and freedom. In the minds of too many, this is all quite
justified, particularly if one ascribes to the lunacy of Oprah Winfrey and the
somewhat mal-adjusted Rosie O'Donnell, who are "God-Like" to many. According to
their "teachings", the military incites violence and teaches children to use
guns, thus ensu! ring more high school massacres, to be sure.

America's military leaders have had the unbridled audacity to inform your
elected officials that they cannot continue to waste time, troops, money,
assets, soldier morale, and preparedness in the numerous swill holes of the
world, where the downtrodden and hungry abound. When the media gets an ear full
of this reality, it portrays America, and its soldiers as insensitive to the
starving masses. This normally triggers a plethora of backlashes. Notables
suddenly emerge with a mouthful of demands and threats. Even the racist, self-
serving demagogue, lov