Open Letter from a Man's Man
Posted September, 2001

Received via email from Ted Handler and read on the air September 28, 2001:

Gentlemen, this was written by a man's man. He served as a Marine in Vietnam and was wounded rather badly. He has a way with words. Pass it on.

"Cowards... nope. 'Jacking a jet and driving it into a high-rise at 300 knots.... no, not cowards. I wouldn't do it. They don't have an air force so they used our training and our planes, and with great execution ... far better that our fiasco in the desert to save the hostages in Iran. Although glued to the TV for the last 48 I haven't heard any talking heads speak with anger and outrage. They act like it's "Columbine" and we have to cope with this "tragedy" with counseling before resuming our lives. My guess is you don't hear that talk from blonde airheads in Israeli TV... 'course they have Uzis in their briefcases ... there a nation with some cajones.”

“This is the picture of America after more than a decade of "sensitivity classes", of "hate speech", of training males and females together in the Army, Air Force and Navy (and thank god NOT in the Marine Corps), of Shannon Faulkner, of A Navy sub captain crying his eyes out on national TV after his boat took out a fishing vessel, of the last US President having to be taught by aides how to salute because as a draft dodger, he never learned, of our TV and motion pictures "heroes" vowing to leave the country because and election didn't go their way ... then not leaving, of having no draft, of modify escape and evasion training at the Air Force Academy because some female threatened to a lawsuit (after accepting a $750,000 education courtesy of the US taxpayer) because she felt "sexually harassed," of a female, Army Blackhawk pilot who refused to fly because it was her kid's "constitutional right" to breast feed... AND her Army Blackhawk pilot husband helping bring the lawsuit against the Army, of the meandering definition of what "is" is, of career military officers getting masters degrees and PhDs out our expense, yet have no idea how to "fix bayonets", let alone lead the charge, of Hillary Clinton as a role model, of the Air Force disallowing the painting of pin-up nose art on the aircraft of men who might just be required to fly said craft to their deaths--all because some lesbian from the National Organization of Gals (NAG) threatened a branch of the United States Military, of "Bobby Has Two Daddies" and "Lisa Has Two Mommies", of a 15 year-old needing parental permission for a tattoo, but not for an abortion, of our tax money being used to pay an "artist" to immerse a crucifix in a jar of urine, of American citizens complaining about the noise military jets make when flying over their house... and going to court to get the target runs changed... and succeeding; of a citizenry that cannot distinguish between an admiral and a chief petty officer, or between a pilot and a clerk for that matter.”

“We don't have John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. We’ve got Jason Priestly and Yanni. We don't have Ernie Pyle and Walter Cronkite. We’ve got Peter Jennings. In short ... we have been feminized though not in the Maggie Thatcher, Golda Meir kick-your-ass way but in the whining, ALCU-get-in-touch-with-your-feelings-men-are-enemies kinda way. Therefore, we cannot, repeat: must not, deploy troops on a large scale to some place like Afghanistan. Our military, except for a few elite units. do not have the fire in the belly it requires. Our enemies have not taken any sensitivity classes. Thanks to Bill Clinton and his ilk we have an eviscerated combat force that is top-heavy of fat ass, butt-boy flag officers and short on NCOs willing, capable and prepared to skewer Achmed with a bayonet. We will now pay the piper for electing Bill Clinton twice! It will be clear when we mount whatever military response we eventually choose.”

“Smart bombs and Cruise missiles (if we have any left) fired from offshore will only make us look more impotent and less committed. And yet, Clinton will still have his defenders despite the fact that because of him we cannot defend ourselves in the manner required of the world's only superpower. Now the same people that voted for this moral and physical coward want our servicemen and women to go in harm's way and pay the price with one arm tied behind their back. It's been over three decades since I fired a shot in anger in a war we weren't firmly committed to ... and yet we were in a far better mind set to do what has to be done today that the poor kids we're going to send to do it.”

“Thank god curbside check-in has been abolished; I'll sleep better tonight.“

Keep five yards,
GA