Damn You Roy Rogers and Errol Flynn

If you're wondering whom to blame for the liberals not wanting to take full advantage over our adversaries in the world, and there are many, blame Roy Rogers and Errol Flynn.

(SwoboNote: I meant to post this during the recent Israeli / HisbAllah war when libs - and the world community - were grousing about the disproportionality of the Israeli's response in the fighting, but I never got around to completing the entry.)

Here is my theory:

I think the libs watched too many Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autry shows - along with the occasional Errol Flynn movie - when they were kids. As many of you will recall, one of the stock scenes in most of the shows took place during the obligatory fight scene:

The bad guy accidentally loses his gun or runs out of ammo and the good guy, wanting to keep the fight fair, throws his own gun down and continues the fight with his fists. The Errol Flynn equivalent was when his opponent, the bad guy, lost his sword. For example, Errol would knock the sword out of the bad guy's hand and then, with the tip of his own sword, he'd flips it back up to his nemesis so they could continue to fight "fair."

I, personally, always thought it was stupid. The good guy's efforts caused the bad guy to be at a disadvantage. That's what fighting is all about, right? But the good guy evidently doesn't want to respondsond disproportionately. Sound familiar?

In the recent war in Lebanon, Israel, the good guy who was attacked started fighting back with the intention of winning and getting their guys, who were kidnapped by HisbAllah, back. But the mushy, touchy feely, anti-Semitic liberal elite and hardcore leftists, at the first sign that the IDF was taking it to the Hizbos, started insisting that the Israelis stop bombing their enemy and / or give the bad guys their "swords" back and "fight fair."

This philosophy, I believe, also permeates any conflict between the United States, and any other rogue state, who by definition is a bad guy who cannot match our power and weaponry. To just kick the crap out of the enemy just wouldn't be fair, so we have to somehow equalize the fight. This is what the libs are doing in all their appeasing, delaying, apologizing, and on and on and on.

The problem with all this appeasing, delaying, apologizing, and so on is this ain't no TV Western or black and white (or colorized) swashbuckling fantasy. The scriptwriters for those pieces of fiction could still have the good guys win. However a fictional script is not the real world. In the real world, the United States might be able to come back from adversity and vanquish their foes, but it is not a sure thing. And all this faux adversity gets real people killed.

In fact, I just saw a movie - "The Guardian" (Pammie made me, it was her week to pick) - and Ashton Kuchar (spoiler alert, don't read any further if you don't want to know how it ends) gets all noble (meaning: not practical) about saving a guy on a boat who is trapped belowdecks. So he waves off the low-on-fuel rescue helicopter which is his only ticket out of there to go down and save the dude. He too gets trapped belowdecks and Kevin Costner has to come out of retirement to fly on a refueled chopper and save the both of them. (How this can even be remotely possible in the Bering Sea when it would take more time to get to them than anyone could survive, even in a survival suit, is total fantasy in and of itself. But I digress.) Kevin Costner gets to the sinking vessel just in the nick of time, saves Ashton, loses the loser that Ashton was trying to save, and drowns in the process. So Ashton, being all noble and fair, thinking he'd sacrifice himself, ends up losing the victim and the killing rescuer. Two people gone instead of one bit player who probably appeared in the closing credits as "Last Dude to Die."

I think the libs believe this is all still just a big TV western, or classic swashbuckling flick, and that somehow they can game the rules or drive the plot. They want to be Roy or Gene or Errol and flip the nukes back to the bad guy to make it fair and then pull things out at the last possible minute, like when the tv or movie heroes don't even have to stab the bad guy but the bad guy accidentally runs into the sword and dies an almost passive death.

Well this is the real world, and I do not want to see if they can somehow pull it off. I honestly don't think they can and I don't want to tempt fate. It's time for us to look after our own arses, first. Which means it's time for us to put the enemy down, now, with prejudice. Let's get it done.