Chuckie Watch 108: Chuckie goes ballistic

Last time we checked in on ole Chuckie, he was talkin' about how we need to git tough in Iraq.

Well, since then he's heard about that London bombing.  And now Chuckie's really mad! And bristling with his usual moral and military advice: Different Names, Same Devils 07/08/05.  And his usual political subtlety, as well - overflowing with Christian love, as always:

Terrorism respects no national boundaries, wears no uniform has no creed of conduct, honors no convention abides by no treaty. Terrorism is an animal, a mad dog which has been so infected with hate that there is no antidote, no serum, no cure other than annihilation.

I could quote some more.  But the rest is along the same lines.  Chuckie periodically decides someone needs to be exterminated or otherwise treated ruthlessly: The Terrorists, child molesters, looters, whoever.

But it's really just an excuse for a blowhard-white-guy hate rant.  This one is a good example.  And since Chuckie cain't hardly tell Hamas from El Kaida from the Sadr Brigades, he's pretty much applying this advice to anybody he thinks of as The Enemy.

Now, Chuckie is a fat old white guy who, to my knowledge, never exterminated anything more threatening than a large steak.  But he's real tough when it comes to shootin' off his mouth.

I thought about this little rant of Chuckie's when I came across the following in a book I've been reading: Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods (2004) by H. John Poole.  Poole is a retired Marine officer and trainer of combat troops.  He continues to conduct training sessions for Marines and Navy special warfare troops.

Chuckie wouldn't much like it, probably.  'Cause Poole uses quite a few multi-syllable words like "prepositioned" and "unconventional."

And what does Poole have to say about figtin' The Terrorists in the Middle East.  Well, among other things:

The end does not justify the means. That is the misguided reasoning of the Islamic militant.  America cannot stoop to his level. History's longest democratic experiment must not accept the killing of noncombatants as an unavoidable consequence of war. While rreedom is a noble cause, it cannot be exported by force. As the most powerful nation on earth, the U.S. must show the greatest restraint. ...

Of all the wars on which the U.S. has embarked, the "War on Terrorism" is perhaps the most dangerous. It is the most dangerous because of its name. While fewer than a thousand misguided souls may have been blowing things up since 1980, whole national, religious, and ethnic groups have been blamed for their actions. The very word "terrorist" connotes someone who is subhuman. To combat a terrorist, one is often tempted to do less-than-human things.

Now ole Chuckie knows that anybody who talks like that is a wuss!  Just some dang sissy, who probably wants to give The Terrorists therapy.  Heck far, ever' good blowhard white guy knows that when you turn on FOX News and hear about 500-lbs. bombs being dropped on urban areas to root out a few guerrillas, that show were being tough!  Yee-haw!  We're blowin' stuff up, we're killin' civilians, we torturin' A-rabs, yeah boy, we're fightin' the way REAL white men do it!!

Of course, "we" is a rather broad concept in this case.  Because while Chuckie and people like him are sittin' there on there watchin' the action on FOX News, or better yet, hearin' other white folks talk about how great it all is, it's some working-class soldier who's getting killed or dismembered by the IEDs, or getting sniped at by a guy whose wife was raped at Abu Ghuraib.

You know, it strikes me that any coward or fool can sit on his behind and rant about violent and criminal things for somebody else to do and somebody else to be the victims of.  But if the armed forces want to accomplish something besides entertain blowhard white guys like Chuckie, they might want to listen more to guys like Poole instead of foaming-at-the-mouth idiots.