This one came over the transom from the mil-email string…
It’s been around a while, but it bears repeating in light of the whole Iran deal, and the dems and administration’s kowtowing to the muslims…
As long as we insist on maintaining the “moral high ground”, we will NEVER win the war on terrorism! We’re in a conflict which we absolutely INSIST in playing by the rules – against a maniac group who have NO rules!
Rattlesnake Logic in dealing with terrorists.
After the Boston bombing the news media spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did.
They want to know what America did to make these brothers so angry with us.
They want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something so terrible.
The media is in a tizzy about this new era of homegrown radicals and about why and how they can live among us and still hate us.
A Texan explained it:
Here in west Texas , I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a
rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don’t stop to wonder WHY a rattlesnake will bite me; I know it WILL bite me because it’s a rattlesnake and that’s what rattlesnakes do. I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake or have a “meaningful dialogue” with it. I just kill it.I don’t try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just kill them.I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won’t tell me and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the
next one. I don’t look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake. I just kill it.Oh, and on occasion, I accidentally kill a rat
snake because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time.
Also, I know for every rattlesnake I kill, two more are lurking out there in the brush.
In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? Not really. Do I respect what they can do to me and my family? Yes!
And because of that respect, I give them the fair justice they deserve. I kill them. As a country, we should start giving more thought to the fact that these jihadists’ are telling the world their goal is to kill Americans and destroy our way of life.
They have posted graphic videos on the internet showing them beheading Americans. They are serious. They are exactly like rattlesnakes. It is high time for us to start acting accordingly!
I love this country.It’s the damn government I’m afraid of! Dammit…
Kill first, ask questions later. Maybe.
I like that logic. Some things are a threat no matter what you do.
Amen, Sir. Used to be, that’s how America took care of business regarding it’s enemies. Ask the Barbary pirates, the Moros, the Japanese, or any of a number of others who thought that they could attack us with impunity. Good luck though, because most of them aren’t around any longer.
We’ve strayed from that path today though. And as usual, I blame Liberals.
I have no problem with rattlesnakes so long as they live where they belong. If they come to my doorstep, politically correct or not, they’re history.
Walk softly, carry a Kimber .45 with a few extra magazines.
+1
Well, I used to eradicate rattlesnakes…with a shovel. And if I had a gun…shoot ’em. Walk softly…carry a big stick…or a firearm. But that is usually related to a very nice fishing rod. LOL
When it come to them sheet-heads I believe in the old Vietnam philosophy… adjusted to todays world. Kill’em all and let Allah sort them out. Do goats and donkeys will be much happier if we do.
+1
Here’s another one along those same lines that’s also been around a while:
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink.
Kknowing they both will drown, the frog has just enough time to gasp, “Why?”
Replies the scorpion: “Its my nature…”
The moral? Leopards don’t change their spots (pardon the mixed metaphor)
Note to “Coffeypot,”
Another “Sayin'” from the Viet Nam era, “There’s no such thing as an ‘Innocent Gook!!!!” …Same goes for the Muzzie Goat F&(%#+s!!
Be Armed, Be Ready, for when they come out from under their rocks it will be too late to go Home and get your favorite piece outta’ the gunsafe!!
Got Gunz….OUTLAW!!!!,
III%,
skybill-out
PS, To paraphrase the Cheshire Cat from “Alice in Wonderland,” “We’re all ‘OUTLAWS,’ now, …You know??”
All- Agreed!
Posted from my iPhone.
You cannot negotiate with a rattlesnake and you cannot negotiate with a terrorist. Whether it’s a vibrating tail or a flag with rifles and writing, both are threats. At that point, you must either capitulate or use force. Capitulation only makes the matter worse. They both understand only one thing: Threat of, and use of Power.
Kill them all and let God sort them out
OMNES MORITATEM. DEUS SUOS COGNOSCET.
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
“Kill them all, for the Lord knows those that are His own.”
Omenes moritatem. Deus suos cognoscet. – Amal Ulric a.k.a. Arnaud-Amaury
From “Cooper’s Commentaries” Vol. 5, No. 6. May, 1997
You have doubtless heard of the grim command, “Kill them all. Let God sort them out!” This has been attributed to a number of military situations over the years, up to and including Vietnam, but I have run it down, and it looks like this:
The Albigensian Crusade in the south of France in the early part of the 14th century was conducted jointly by the French King and the Pope, with the intent of stamping out the Donatist heresy. Among the various “heretical” towns and cities beset by the royal troops was Beziers. When this walled city refused to surrender, the chief of the besiegers – one Amal Ulric – gave orders that the town should be sacked and all survivors put to death. One of his henchmen remonstrated, saying that there was an appreciable number of “good Catholics” inside the city. The chief of the besiegers was reported to have responded, “Kill them all. God will know his own.” Now, he could not have said this because he could not speak English (the English language not having been invented at that time). We do not know exactly what he said, because no one was taking notes, but several months later a German monk reporting on the incident put the equivalent down in Latin, Neca eos omnes. Deus suos cognoscet.
Horrible as that sounds today, it made quite good sense in the Middle Ages, at which time most Christians felt that life on earth was simply a brief interlude in preparation for the hereafter. If one led a Godly life, God would know of it, and the reward would be eternal paradise. Thus Amal Ulric was making good sense according to his concepts of righteousness. If all those in Beziers were killed, the good would go to Heaven and the bad would go to Hell, and thus he was doing God’s work.
The Marines in WW II learned that the only way to deal with a fanatic was to make sure he was dead.
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