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Where's Gen. Patton when you need him?

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Posted: November 22, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

And he [Ishmael, the father of the Arabs] shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
~ Genesis 16:12

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!

~ Gen. George S. Patton

Prologue

As I read the ominous headlines: "Somali pirates demand $25 million ransom for supertanker"; "Somali pirates seize 9 vessels in 12 days"; "Yemen powerless to combat Somali piracy"; "Maersk says re-routing some of fleet due to piracy" – I nearly fell into despair. Then I listened to America's modern-day prophet Elijah, Dr. Michael Savage, rallying the troops on his radio show earlier this week, and my soul was revived.

What did Savage say? While reading about the latest acts of naked piracy by these Islamic radicals who are causing an international catastrophe in the Gulf of Aden, Savage gave one of his classic impromptu monologues of which I can only paraphrase thusly:

Who is this Admiral Mullen? What does he mean he was "stunned" at the rise in piracy in that area? Is he crazy? Has he been on "The View" TV show or taking a cruise off the coast of California? Oh yeah, that's right Admiral Mullen is one of those Harvard-MBA-type military leaders that calls in his military commands on his trusty iPod.
After Savage's fire-and-brimstone diatribe, I fell into a somewhat melancholy mood and silently uttered this Socratic soliloquy to myself: "Where are the real men? Where are the great generals like George Washington, William Tecumseh Sherman, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall? … Where is Gen. George Patton when you really need him?"

These were exceptional Americans, real kick a-- leaders that accomplished their military mission first and asked questions later; men who put America, her interests and the protection of her people above even their own lives.

Savage then stated why in 1775 the U.S. Navy was created in the first place: to secure America's independence from our colonizer, Great Britain. After we declared independence from England, they removed their navy protection from America's commercial ships traveling in international waters, thus making our ships easy prey to the Barbary pirates, Muslim terrorists from Morocco, Algiers and Tunisia that plundered every commercial vessel they could, capturing dozens of American ships and stealing their cargo.





How did America act towards this Islamic aggression? John Adams, the ambassador to Great Britain, favored diplomacy; Thomas Jefferson, the ambassador to France, wanted blood, but he would have to wait 25 years until he became America's third president and greatly strengthened the Navy, immediately dispatching a fleet of warships to the Middle East to confront America's 19th century version of Muslim terrorists.

It was America's unflinching resolve to fight Islamic terrorists who attacked our merchant ships that inspired one of the verses to the Marine's Hymn: "From the halls of Montezuma to shores of Tripoli ..." "Montezuma" refers to the Battle of Chapultepec (1847), which took place during the Mexican-American War (1846-4; "Tripoli" refers to the First Barbary War (1801-05) and the decisive Battle of Derne.

Where did America go wrong?

When I was a little kid, I recall watching all those classic war movies and documentaries. One image that haunts me to this day is when President Harry Truman, that insecure little haberdasher, fired the great World War II hero, Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Why? Because during the early days of the Korean War, MacArthur wisely wanted to be proactive and launch a frontal attack against China to prevent the looming communist menace from spilling over into the Korean peninsula where we were making great progress at routing the North Korean army. Truman balked, and MacArthur was called back home.

The victory parade MacArthur received down Broadway in New York on April 20, 1951, was perhaps the largest parade for anyone in American history. Moreover, to me it was a tacit symbol by the American people who essentially gave the diminutive Truman a collective middle finger salute for treating one of our greatest war heroes with such contempt. From that point onward in American military history, the quality of leadership became substandard, compromised and increasingly feminized.

Gen. George Washington, dead, Gen. Sherman, dead, Gen. MacArthur, dead, Gen. Marshall, dead, Gen. Patton … they're all dead! What military man do we have today to protect us? George W. Bush gave us a politically correct admiral with a Harvard MBA and no navy aircraft combat experience named Mike Mullen.

Here is an excerpt of the press conference Adm. Mullen gave on Nov. 17:

Q: Were you stunned or surprised by the attack on this large vessel today versus going after smaller boats?


MULLEN: I'm stunned by the range of it, less so than I am the size. These are pretty – they have proven to be pretty capable, can get on and off lots of vessels. I mean, this is a 300,000-ton – three times bigger than one of our aircraft carriers. But once there's an avenue to be able to get up on it, they – and it's – typically these ships, even that big, don't have that many – you know, the crews are not exorbitantly large. So once they have access, they seem to be able to get on and take over, which they've done in this case.


I don't know about you, dear reader, but I'm certain Gen. Patton would not have responded in this manner. I don't even think he would have granted a "press conference" because he would have been too busy blowing these Somali pirates to hell. Patton once remarked: "Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more."

Not with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen. "Attack" doesn't seem to be in his vocabulary; he seems part of this new generation of metrosexual military officers that are thoroughly feminized and politically correct in their training and war strategy. That's how Mullen rose through the ranks. The Washingtons, Shermans, MacArthurs, Pattons have all been thoroughly purged from the ranks of the U.S. military, and only Harvard MBAs are left to fill the officer core. No wonder America hasn't definitively won a war since World War II – our soldiers and our military leaders have been utterly emasculated by the socialist left!

Epilogue

Though Adm. Mullen is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and holds control of the most powerful military in the history of humanity, a ragtag group of Somali terrorists on speed boats and wielding machine guns have all but stopped commercial shipping in one of the busiest and most lucrative shipping lanes in the world. All the U.S., the "international community," the U.N., the Saudis, can do is pay the $25 million ransom, and Adm. Mullen brags about the effectiveness of the enemy:

MULLEN: The – they're very good at what they do. They're highly, you know, they're very well-armed. Tactically they're very good. And so once they get to a point where they can board, it becomes very difficult to get them off, because clearly now they hold hostages. And from the standpoint of – the question then becomes, well, what do you do about the hostages? And that's where the standoff is.
Instead of having a real man, an intelligent man, a competent man of action like Gen. Patton, whose resume in World War II alone solidified his place as arguably the greatest military leader in American history, we have the bungling incompetence of President Bush, the uselessness of Adm. Mullen and the vanity of U.N. diplomacy with terrorists.

Dr. Savage concluded with these statements: "We need 'warriors' not 'worriers,'" and "If we have the greatest military in the world, but are afraid to use it, what good is it to us?"

Where is Gen. George Patton when we really need him?!






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