We Used To Attack Enemy Soldiers

Andrew Longman

August 25, 2006 -- Imagine, if you will, a June 1942 report asserting that hundreds of Germans, Italians, and Japanese were pouring across the Mexican border into the United States and some of them carried military patches affiliating them with special operations units from those countries.

Do you suppose the appropriate or actual response would have been to confer at some bureaucratic committee meetings? Do you suppose that liberal FDR would have proposed that maybe next year more money should be given to the sheriffs associations of Arizona, New Mexico, and California?

I don’t think so. Roosevelt would have had machine gun nests and artillery barrages up and down the border. It’s called war.

Fox News Channel has reported that large numbers of foreign nationals from Al Qaeda supporting countries are pouring across the Mexican border – where there is no military effort to stop them.

Think about how utterly stupid it is that in war time we cannot prevent enemy agents from crossing our borders into our country. Think how contemptibly stupid it is that the government cannot manage to deploy the Army to stop armed persons from Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt from crossing into the United States by the hundreds or thousands.

Is anyone, anyone at all in the government, aware that we are fighting a war with hostile foreigners? Or is “war” such a euphemism now that it’s totally meaningless?

Think of the absolute irrational, untouchable, vapid arrogance which sits in Washington and argues over funding the sheriff’s association next year while armed special ops troops, helped by Mexican mercenaries, enter the country as saboteurs with machine guns to spread mayhem and havoc.

Think of how foolish it is that one party is in favor of funding the sheriffs next year and one party is against it – to propose sending the military to actually kill the enemy agents and stop the influx being ruled out before discussion even begins! (Neo-liberals are for the funding bill because they think it’s Omar Sharif’s association.)
Are we nuts?

What will the government’s response be to incoming nuclear missiles? To debate, on next year’s appropriations, whether funding should be raised by three percent for SDI? The “conservatives” being in favor and the “liberals” being against?

What will their response be to suicide nuclear truck bombings in American cities? To debate more or less two-percent money for paramedics and whether Congress should fund research into hot-bioactive-compresses?

What will their response be to war openly declared on the United States by Iran? To debate revoking Iran’s pending membership in the World Trade Organization and to consider legislation allowing civil suits against Iran to be renewed?

And when an entire Iranian expeditionary force numbering twenty thousand is in Nuevo Laredo, will Chertoff authorize an emergency twenty million for public prosecutors in a “get tough” policy?

Look, that isn’t a joke. It’s happening right now.

There is no such thing as an American army which defends the actual territory of the United States of America. We have Don Rumsfeld, commander of the US Expeditionary and Missile Forces. We have Michael Chertoff, head of FEMA and Acting Mayor of New Orleans. While there are military forts in the United States of America, don’t be confused by them. They are there strictly to support foreign operations and to shoot down missiles from Iran.

Iranian tourists or student-visa holders can visit them whenever they like.

Hey Bush: How many enemy agents having crossed the border will cause a military response from you?
One thousand a year is obviously OK because it’s being allowed right now. Five thousand Al Qaeda per month is obviously OK too. How about ten thousand Al Qaeda members per month? Let’s see, in ten months that would be enough troops to take over one hundred airports before anyone could do anything about it. Do you have a gut feeling about this yet Bushie?

(And anticipating your first question, no, the Maricopa County Sherriff is not a military institution.)
Folks, what is happening right now is: we are being infiltrated by thousands of enemy saboteurs getting ready to launch attacks on the USA all in the same day. They will detonate bombs, machine gun the police, assault Congress and the White House, and crash airplanes into buildings, while detonating nuclear weapons. They are going to go for it all. They are going to try to knock over the whole United States and raise an Islamic flag over Washington D.C. It is being orchestrated right under everyone’s noses and your government is sound asleep at the steakhouse.

Now suppose I am wrong, that none of this can be done, none could be attained. Precisely what portion of our government is preventing this from being done tomorrow morning with perfect ease?

Congress debates funding for the Sherriff, the President forbids the military from defending the border and points of entry, and the problem is defined as being overseas by millionaire, fat, senators who believe that the only thing at stake is a percent or two line item and Bush’s approval rating.

They are going to look really dumb when Osama bin Laden turns around in their limo wearing an LA Dodgers hat and says, “Where to?”

What’s it take to get you off your ambitious butt, “patriot” McCain? How many dead before the army’s on the border Rumsfeld? And how many cities in flames, Senator Clinton, before your chief job becomes defending the territorial integrity of the USA instead of just attacking American motives?

The Senators myopic account can view only their committee; Osama bin Laden paces back and forth eyeing Maricopa County.

But you know what? You steak-holders are not going to get a chance to revise your options plan because all the terrorists are going to attack on the same day, all at once, before you can figure out those vexing two percent appropriations.

This is your last chance to wake up.

Do something.

Now.