I want you to take a good hard look at this picture from 2004. In it, dead Americans are hanging from a bridge in Iraq, the work of some really nasty bad guys. The ordinary citizens of this region are cheering in triumph. And the dead bodies aren't just dead. The really nasty bad guys took the pleasure of mutilating them first. So it's fair to say the last few precious hours of their lives were spent in excruciating agony. And everyone in the picture is happy because of it. But that's not why I am so upset.We eventually caught the really nasty bad guys, or at least the head really nasty bad guy, and took him into custody. Allegedly, 3 Navy Seals had been in charge of interrogating him, and in the course of their questioning, he got punched in the mouth. I'm sure it stung for a while, but he recovered to eventually be held accountable for his crimes. But here's where it gets absolutely ridiculous. The three Seals are facing court martial charges for assault. They are going to be kicked out of the Navy for a punch in the mouth. Now most of you know that to get to become a Navy Seal, you have to go through some of the hardest, grueling, and physical training this country can dish out. I'll guarantee you that the really nasty bad guy didn't receive one tenth of what these guys went through in Seal boot camp. Or one twentieth of what he dished out to the dead Americans. We trained these men to be the baddest on the planet, and now we are persecuting them for it. And that makes me furious.
This country's priorities are as messed up as Drew Peterson's. The rest of the world laughs at us as our President bows to foreign leaders and we punish our own soldiers for capturing our enemies. Didn't we capture and eventually put to death Saddam Hussein? We may not have put that rope around his neck, but we sure as hell gave the Iraqi's a big thumbs up when it happened. And now we have to ruin the lives of three of our bravest for basically giving a really nasty bad guy just a small taste of what he deserves? And how far up the ladder does the order come from? Is this Obama's idea of placating his party? Or the rest of the world for that matter? And who were the rats that squealed on them? How weak we have become in the face of our enemies.
I can hear the liberals charging in from the fringes already. We don't torture. We are not like them. We are above all this. I say, and pardon me, but FUCK THAT. This wasn't some bloody rampage by a couple of black sheep. These guys were doing their job. There aren't even one out of a hundred people that could do what these Seals do. Maybe not even one out of a thousand when you throw in all the tree huggers. These guys have been to hell and back for their country, trained to be bad ass mothers. And when they show how bad ass they really are, they get court martialed for it. You can't win a board game let alone a war when the 2 sides are playing by different sets of rules.
The other day, Brent Seabrook of the Blackhawks won the game in a shootout as the 11th player to shoot, a club record. In the interview after the game, pressed by hungry reporters, he refused to say what his strategy was on the game winning shot, unwilling to give any information to his opponents that could later be used against him. It's too bad we can't do the same. It's too bad that "Don't ask, don't tell" couldn't be extended to guarding our own interests, whether it be how we treat out enemy combatants in custody or telling the opposition in Afghanistan when we will stop fighting. It all boils down to the fact that in the eyes of the really nasty bad guys, the US is weaker today than we were on 9/11/2001. It's us against them. Haven't we learned anything?
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