We must
have a
Military
Victory
Please
let your
eyes
move to
the
right to
Texas
Senator
Kay
Bailey
Hutchison’s
brilliant
weekly
column
on our
country,
yes you
too
Marvo.
Does
this not
reflect
what
your
feelings
are?
Senator
Hutchison
wrote
these
words
for me
and for
all of
us who
are
wondering
what has
gotten
into the
minds of
Democrats,
and many
Republicans,
as we
fight an
enemy
who is
determined
to
destroy
America
and
everything
that we
stand
for.
Think
about
Senator
Hutchison
as you
listen
to the
speeches
on
Memorial
Day this
year.
Think
about
what is
at
stake.
Our
country
and way
of life
is at
stake,
something
far more
important
than an
election
and
politics.
The only
path to
true
peace is
victory,
a
military
victory.
Not some
negotiated
cease
fire,
like
Korea,
where
nothing
was
settled
and we
are
still
there
over 50
years
later. A
military
victory
like
with
Japan
and
Germany.
We
dropped
two
atomic
bombs on
Japan
and
today
they are
one of
our best
allies
and a
fine
democracy.
What if
we had
stopped
in mid
stream
with
Japan
and
negotiated
a cease
fire, or
worse
yet,
just
retreated,
hoping
that
they
would
go away.
I plan
to put
Senator
Hutchison’s
column
on the
Gazette
web site
where it
will be
available
for you
to send
to your
friends
and
family
around
the
country.
Simply
highlight,
copy and
paste it
into an
email
message.
There is
still
hope for
us if we
start
standing
up for
America!
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Column
forwarded
by Don
Hadden,
Farmer’s
Branch,
TX
We’ve
forgotten
how to
fight
back
By
Billie
Louden
Colorado
Voices
I
realize
hindsight
is
20/20,
and I
hate
Monday
morning
quarterbacks,
but
sometimes
an event
is so
horrific
in
nature
that
analysis
of why
it
unfolded
and
ended
the way
it did
should
be
explored
from
every
possible
angle.
If you
can
suffer
another
article
about
Virginia
Tech,
please
allow me
to offer
my take
on the
latest
bloody
massacre
that has
sent
America
reeling.
Every
group
with an
agenda
is still
using
the
aftermath
of this
tragedy
to tout
their
causes.
While
the
pro-gun
folks
and the
no-guns
bunch
hurl
blame at
each
other,
forums
are held
and
committees
are
formed
as
everyone
wrings
their
hands
and
tries to
come up
with a
solution
to
assure
it never
happens
again.
I am not
a
psychic
nor a
doomsayer;
I am a
realist.
From
Charles
Whitman
blasting
away in
a Texas
tower,
to
Seung-Hui
Cho at
Virginia
Tech and
every
senseless
slaughter
in
between,
America
has
fervently
prayed
it was
the last
time.
But I am
here to
tell you
it never
has been
and
sadly
never
will be
the last
time.
No
matter
how many
red
flags we
notice,
there is
simply
no way
to
determine
who will
one day
slip
over the
edge
into
madness
and open
fire on
innocents.
If
police
investigated
every
person
who
acted
strangely,
ranted
and
raved
against
society,
or even
made
veiled
threats,
there
would be
no time
for
anything
else.
When a
twisted
soul
decides
to carry
out a
heinous
act,
there is
precious
little
we can
do to
stop it.
Where
there is
a will,
there is
always a
way. All
we can
do, if
caught
in their
crosshairs,
is try
to
survive.
Upon
hearing
the
number
of
victims
in
Virginia,
I
assumed
the
shooter
had used
an
automatic
rifle
capable
of
firing
many
rounds
per
second.
When I
later
learned
he was
armed
with
only two
handguns,
disbelief
washed
over me.
It was
later
revealed
he fired
190
rounds
in about
seven
minutes.
Being in
law
enforcement
as well
as
having
been in
the
military,
I know
for a
fact the
shooter
had to
have
spent a
great
deal of
time
reloading
and
exchanging
magazines.
I can
only
wonder
what was
going on
during
these
necessary
pauses.
I don’t
blame
the
victims
for
their
own
demise.
I blame
the
non-confrontational
attitude
in
America
that may
have
stopped
someone
from
fighting
back.
The
basic
human
instinct
of
survival
has been
tamped
down by
the
reemergence
of the
“Make
love,
not war”
peacenik
movement
of the
’60s,
especially
on our
college
campuses.
Our kids
are
being
taught
to avoid
conflict
and try
to
reason
with the
unreasonable.
A
non-aggression
mentality
has been
ingrained
in them
since
gradeschool,
where
childhood
games
like
dodge
ball are
deemed
to
harsh.
In
Littleton,
some
protested
a statue
of a
heroic
American
soldier
because
he
carried
a gun.
The
thinking
must be
that if
we deny
to our
children
that
guns
exist,
then
guns
will
never
hurt
them.
I found
it
ironic
that the
one
person
who did
try to
block
the
Virginia
Tech
gunman’s
way was
a
professor
who had
survived
the
Holocaust,
a man
who, I
am quite
sure,
had
looked
insanity
in the
eye
before
and
survived.
He
understood
that
inaction
meant
death.
This is
also
what
must
have
finally
occurred
to the
passengers
on
United
Flight
93 on
Sept.
11,
2001,
when
they
chose to
fight
back.
Even
though
they
died,
they
died
fighting
and on
their
terms.
We have
got to
stop
sticking
our
heads
and our
children’s
heads in
the
sand,
pretending
evil
does not
exist.
Unless
we
recover
the
fight-back
spirit
buried
inside
ourselves
and pass
it own
to our
kids, we
are
doomed.
No one
can
predict
or stop
the next
horrendous
act that
will
surely
come to
be. What
we can
do is
assure
that our
survival
instincts
will
lower
the
number
of
victims.
What
other
choice
do we
have?
Billie
Louden (loudenview@aol.com)
is a
deputy
sheriff
in
Denver
and an
Army
veteran.
