Thursday, September 08, 2005

Upon The Bodies Of The Fallen

The liberals took a page from the terrorist manual , or is it the other way around? To claim victory, terrorists know that you can fail 99 times out of 100 and still get your point across. The beleagered beauracrat knows that he can make the right move 999 times out of 1000 but that small fraction, that one miscalcuation born of human fallibility will be leapt upon by the liberals until he is made the villain of all villains. So he hesitates to think it over just one more time to be sure he's gotten it right.

And it's not unusual for people to freeze when confronted with a life or death situation. Ten percent of ALL law enforcement deaths are from their own weapons. All cops know that hesitation can be deadly, but a lot of them cannot help but be human and make the worst possible mistake. You train a man for combat, equip him as best you can, then assure him that if he makes a righteous mistake the world will not end. The shit has hit the fan, a soldier, a sailor or a Marine squints through the dust and the fear and the pounding heart and takes a shot, but not all of those shots bring down just the enemy. A manager is hit with reems of conflicting red tape and the good one's DO know that asking forgiveness is sometimes far better than being part of the problem.

Forgiveness. People of good will, being human then vilified for it, or doing nothing then vilified for it. The problem lies not with human frailties, or the fact that no one is ever 100% safe from the forces of nature, the problem is with those who would castigate each and every mistake to rise upon the backs of the fallen. Where there's a tragedy, there's a liberal lurking in the wings to benefit.

Please read the following article written by Congressman Robert Jindal of Louisiana. If you are not a WSJ subscriber then email me, or let me know in the comments section and I'll post the whole essay. Thanks.

WSJ.com - Cross Country

BATON ROUGE, La. -- "Over the past few days, America has been both moved and disturbed by television footage of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. But for those of us in Louisiana still struggling to cope, the troubling images are of opportunistic politicians playing the blame game while there is so much real work to do.

Rather than point fingers, we should be fixing the situation on the ground. And that will include taking steps to ensure that red tape doesn't stifle the continued security and rebuilding efforts.
There have already been a number of instances in which an overly inhibitive bureaucracy prevented an appropriate response to the disaster. For example, on Wednesday of last week a company called my office. With only three hours before rising waters would make the mission impossible, they were anxious to send a rescue helicopter for their stranded employees. They wanted to know who would give them a go-ahead..."

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