{"id":25244,"date":"2007-04-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:40:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:40:33","slug":"have_we_lost_the_will_to_fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/04\/09\/have_we_lost_the_will_to_fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Have We Lost the Will to Fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I\u2019ve often told you of a philosophy that was explained to me by a good friend of mine when I lived in Sacramento, B. T. Collins, a Vietnam vet who sadly has passed away, but he wrote a letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee one day.<\/p>\n

This was when I guess the Contra wars were going on, or something was going on, and he was frustrated at all the leftist limp-wristed philosophies he was reading in letters to the editor. So he wrote one himself and basically said, ‘You people need to understand the purpose of armies. The purpose of armies is to kill people and break things,\u2019 and I thought, ‘Yep, that pretty much sums it up as briefly as it can be summed up, as succinctly as it can.\u2019 The fewest words required to make a point the more powerful the point, and I thought, ‘That really did it: ‘the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things.” Well, there\u2019s a new yardstick that has evolved now. Nathan Hale, writing in the AmericanThinker.com<\/a> — now, this is a pseudonym for ‘a professional whose firm serves many liberal clients.\u2019 That\u2019s what it says in the slug line as to who ‘Nathan Hale\u2019 is. But basically his point is… <\/p>\n

Let me just read a couple quick passages from his piece here. This ran on April 6th. ‘At a very young age I had the good fortune to learn a life lesson that appears not to have taken hold among the Democrats\u2019 elite, nor much of the legacy media and only scarcely among academics. As a very young child I was fascinated by all things military. In my free time, I read of the great campaigns, famous generals and the development of military technology. In reading the histories of wars, I noticed a consistent pattern: there always seemed to be many more wounded than killed in combat. In WWI, for example, some 204,000 Americans were wounded and around 53,000 were killed. WWII saw 292,000 killed Vs. 670,000 wounded.\u2019 Now, if I may pause for a moment, I often speak to young people, and actually everybody about their historical perspective. <\/p>\n

Here we are in Iraq, and we\u2019ve got what, 3300 deaths now, something like this and I don\u2019t know what the wounded numbers are. They\u2019re higher than that, but everybody is having a fit, blowing a gasket. ‘This is unacceptable! Why, this is outrageous! We\u2019ve gotta bring the troops home. We\u2019ve gotta keep \u2019em safe!\u2019 We had 670,000 wounded in World War II, and 292,000 killed. Something\u2019s changed in our culture. We\u2019re more concerned about the future of polar bears than we are our own country. It\u2019s absurd. By the way, I got a great Global Warming Stack. It is so cold in Alaska, not only are the fire hydrants freezing and cracking, the otters cannot get in their little playgrounds of water because they\u2019ve frozen over, and otters are being eaten left and right by other predators that they could normally escape by going in the water. The cute little sea otters, you know they get back on their backs and they wave their paws at us and we think, ‘Oh, they\u2019re trying to say how much they love us!\u2019<\/p>\n

They\u2019re being devoured because of all of this freezing up there, in the midst of these threats of global warming! An MIT professor, by the way, has come out and said that there\u2019s no such thing as a perfect temperature. The earth is always warming and cooling. It\u2019s as I have always said. This guy is going to be run out of MIT before the week\u2019s out because he\u2019s going against the grain. I have it at the top of the Global Warming Stack. Anyway, something\u2019s happening here. We\u2019re more concerned about all these nebulous things over which we have no control than we are over things that really matter, things that affect us. So now we have, in this war in Iraq, 3300 deaths, a few more than that wounded, and people can\u2019t deal with it. It goes right to the point here that this Nathan Hale guy is making. He says, ‘Korea and Viet Nam saw similar statistics in that roughly three times as many men were wounded as killed…. If the objective of war is to slaughter the opponent, wouldn\u2019t it make sense to destroy their ambulances, their medical support and their hospitals [so the wounded will die]? That way, those who were merely wounded would die and the casualty counts would be higher and victory for our side assured.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘My uncle…something of a scholar and intellectual,\u2019 he went to the War College, said something that was significant. ‘We do not target medical resources, because the objective of an army is not to slaughter the opponent but to break his will to fight. That bears repeating: The objective of military action is not to kill the enemy, but rather to break his will to fight. Years later, in an academic study of ‘conflicts other than war\u2019, terrorism and ‘low intensity conflict\u2019, I learned that this principle is actually taught at all levels of our military. From the lowest level squad tactics to the curriculum of the War College, military people are repeatedly taught and seem to simply understand that their job is to break their opponent\u2019s will to fight. If this thought is so obvious to our military leadership and extends to the lowest level Marines and Soldiers ‘stuck in Iraq\u2019 as John Kerry would say, why is this concept so foreign to the leadership of the Democrat Party? How can our media ‘experts\u2019 fail to understand this simple thought mastered by privates and corporals who didn\u2019t attend Ivy-League J-Schools? And any rugby fan who has seen the Maori dance performed by the New Zealand All Blacks, or any sports fan who has witnessed the trash-talking before a big game or boxing match understands intuitively that the concept of beating your opponent mentally is often as important as beating him physically.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The reason why this stood out to me is, I just asked you point-blank, ‘Have we lost our will to fight?\u2019 Have the terrorists broken our will to fight? Have they broken the Britons\u2019 will to fight? You\u2019d have to say yes. I\u2019m talking here about a majority of Americans, but clearly this guy is dead on the money. The Democrat Party has no will to fight, and they never have had since World War II and FDR. It seems to me frighteningly so that more and more Americans have simply lost the will to fight. ‘Oh, this is not worth it!\u2019 We\u2019ve lost the will to fight, and instead we now focus on saving the polar bears and the otters and all these things we really can\u2019t affect. Most people know this, but it makes them feel like they matter and makes them feel important, and it also fulfills the need for people to think they actually can be destructive, because that is a perverted sense of having power, or feeling that you have power. Imagine some ten-year-old comes out of Algore\u2019s movie, a ten-year-old, ‘My gosh, I matter! My mommy and daddy are destroying the polar bears, and destroying the earth.\u2019 That gives you a sense of relevance and bigness and power, and it sells, even if it\u2019s the destructive kind of power. <\/p>\n

But in things that really matter, I challenge anybody to argue with this: ‘Have we lost our will to fight?\u2019 Is that really not what troubles so many of you? Not the US military. I\u2019m talking about the American people in supporting this kind of thing. The US military has not lost its will to fight. That\u2019s not what I mean. I\u2019m talking about from Dingy Harry on down to Nancy Pelosi, throughout liberal America for certain, but how many of these so-called ‘independents\u2019 and ‘moderates,\u2019 the brainchild of this country, we\u2019re told, have had their will to fight broken by the Drive-Bys and the Democrats and four or five years of constant pummeling of the entire effort? While this is happening, here go the Iranians, proclaiming today National Nuclear Day and doing the exact same things that we went into Iraq to stop. Now we don\u2019t have the will to stop the Iranians, it doesn\u2019t appear. I\u2019m not talking about President Bush. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just imagining here. If the president said, ‘We\u2019ve gotta do something about this and I\u2019m meeting with military commanders to start to plan strategy,\u2019 can you imagine the hellfire that would erupt from the Drive-By Media and some of the people in this country over this? So not only is the purpose of armies ‘to kill people and break things,\u2019 it is to break the enemy\u2019s will to fight — and that\u2019s what high numbers of wounded accomplish, and you look at the reports coming out of Iraq. We never hear about death tolls, death numbers, wounded reports of the enemy, never — other than when US Marines are portrayed as rapists, then we hear about the casualties. But we never hear about the casualties the enemy are taking. All we hear about is the casualties we\u2019re taking, and after four or five years of this daily pummeling, some people are throwing up their hands and saying, ‘It\u2019s not worth it. I can\u2019t handle it.\u2019 They\u2019ve lost the will to fight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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