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About Don Bendell
Don Bendell, 62, is an author of 26 books,
including his newest novel, "Detachment Delta," about modern day
Delta Force, which was released worldwide in January, 2009 by
Berkley Books (Penguin-USA), with over 2,000,000 copies of his
books in print worldwide. Don is a popular editorialist who has
appeared on FOX News Live, and many national radio shows. A 70%
disabled vet, Don served as an officer in 4 Special Forces
(Green Beret) Groups, including a 1968-1969 tour on an A-team in
Vietnam, as well as in the Top Secret Phoenix Program and has
two sons in Special Forces. He maintains a
website here. |
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A Kinder,
Gentler Response
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Don Bendell
A Kinder, Gentler Response
November 16, 2009
I earned and
wore a Green Beret and have sons doing the same now
against a different enemy. There still remains a
similar Beltway mindset where strategy is planned by
military leaders, then discarded by an
Administration seemingly bent on the destruction of
what we hold dear. I’m a 70% disabled Vietnam
veteran and like many suffer migraines, wear hearing
aids, groan when arising, and start each day in
pain. However, there is no pain as heart-breaking,
as the gut-wrenching ache I feel when I see the
President of my country and his staff acting like
wimps and appeasers to Muslim terrorists. I wonder
if they, as kids, handed their lunch money to the
bully on the playground for fear of being beaten up.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, and 5
co-conspirators are now going to be tried in New York City. There,
Mohammed will use our press as a platform to re-victimize the many
survivors and family members of those who died on that now memory-fogged
day. He will grandstand espousing the drama of global jihad,
selflessness of martyrdom, and the wondrous leadership of the al-Qaeda.
Sadly, his strategy will succeed due to a sensationalized press corps as
dim-witted willing accomplices, instead of questioning and thinking
journalists like those ink-stained greats of yesteryear. Defense
attorneys will penetrate the veil of secrecy of intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, self-congratulatory politicians will pat themselves on the
back for their diversity-enhancement, while helpless Americans will slip
deeper into our “National Emotional Depression.”
Many of the American press, no longer proud to be jaw-jutting,
tough-minded questioners of ALL of those in the political arena, march
in lockstep with the Administration to insure that no news reporter or
government official dare suggest that US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is
a “a Muslim terrorist.” This, despite the fact that he screamed “Allahu
Ahkbar!” opening fire on unarmed soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood
killing 13 and wounding 30, after giving away his possessions, and years
of proclamations about the glory of Islamic martyrdom. Those killed and
wounded should be awarded Purple Hearts not treated as assault victims.
Those who acted bravely in a hail of withering fire should be awarded
valor medals as much as any fighter in Mosul or Kandahar.
Do you know why veterans from WWII are referred to as “The Greatest
Generation?” It was the last war where our generals, not politicians,
made the strategic decisions and led us to clear-cut victory and an
unconditional total surrender of the enemy. We should talk until blue in
the face to avoid war, but when we must fight, we must outshoot and
out-think the enemy, treat enemy wounded as a medic did to Hasan at Fort
Hood, hold prisoners until hostilities end, and vigorously prosecute
that war to an unconditional surrender.
Multiculturalism and political correctness are tearing the fabric and
killing the spirit of America. Veterans of all our kinder, gentler wars
have paid the price for our bureaucratic feel-good lunacy. We are at war
with fanatical, blood-soaked, neck-sawing, jihadist guerilla fighters
who kill and torture innocents. They are not part of any national
military and thus deserve no benefits of the Geneva Accords or US
jurisprudence. A-Qaeda passes out no candy bars to little children. Our
fighting men and women do that. We always have, yet Hollywood shows our
own heroes as blood-thirsty war-mongers while lionizing an expatriated
pedophile film director.
Trying terrorists in civil court is cruel and unusual punishment. Not
for those accused as per the Constitution, but instead for the victims
of those cowardly terror attacks. America’s great statesmen lay entombed
in marble monuments, while we are governed by a ruthless herd of elected
attorneys daily creating more red tape to protect their growing power
bases. Unfortunately, our government in Washington now hands roses and
chocolates to our rapists.
If you are angry, fight back. Vote the
molasses-talking, resume-padding, back-slapping, deal-making scoundrels
out of office and vote patriots in. Attend tea parties, email letters to
your editor, write or call your congressmen, and speak out in all
venues, “This is my country! I’m taking it back!” The true test of
greatness lies not in victory but in defeat. We need not succumb to
litigating liars, American apologists, and smooth-talking miscreants in
national office. We must instead fear our own apathy and inaction in a
time of national crisis. That hour is upon us. For me, my rocking chair
shall sit idle while I am off, pen in hand, to fight again in the cause
of freedom. Join me. |
