J. D. Pendry

J. D. Pendry

On November 4, 1979, I was in Erie, Pennsylvania working at Gannon University as an Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC) instructor. I arrived there during the blizzard of 1977 and stayed until the summer of 1980. I left on a July day when the temperature was in the 50s, which isn’t unusual considering that Erie’s mean temperature for July is 66 degrees Fahrenheit. The running joke is that Erie has only two seasons, winter and the 4th of July. A couple of days after leaving Erie, I turned up at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama where it was pleasantly a humid 104.

What do you recall about November 4, 1979? It’s the day that Iranian Islamo fascists, one of which was their current President referred to in our even then politically correct media as students, decided to take our embassy in Tehran and hold Americans hostage for 444 days. Most of the people burning American Soldiers in effigy in Portland and defecating on American flags probably weren’t born yet. Their historical outlook comes from Rosie O. and the1960s hippies who are now their college professors. Gannon had some Iranian students. I expect they were rich kids more than they were extremists, but I still gave them added scrutiny as we passed on campus. I suppose I was profiling them before there was a politically incorrect name for it.

The ROTC instructors participated in student-faculty intramural sports. Our volleyball team cruised through the season, but because of an injury, we ended up one man short playing the championship game against an Iranian student team. It’s tough to compete against a good team when you have only 5 of the needed 6 players. It was too easy for them to exploit our weakness - the spot left empty by the missing player. It was a close two out of three, but we lost. The student spectators cheered for the Iranians. I always reckoned it was just students cheering for students because they were competing with faculty. On reflection, maybe it wasn’t. ROTC was once compulsory for underclassmen at Gannon. Then came the 60s draft card burning anti-war era and an attempt was made to boot the program from the school altogether. It survived.

The ROTC sponsored drives to send packages to American hostages in Iran. Whether they arrived there or not, who knows? But, we sent them just the same. If you find the Carter Library on line, you can read about the President’s policy of restraint for dealing with the hostage crisis. There was one rescue attempt. It was a disaster for us. I remember watching a mullah on nightly news proudly displaying the charred remains of an American who died during the try. After watching this black-hatted charlatan poke his finger in our eye yet again, I was certain that we would find enough gumption somewhere to convert some of those mullahs into charred remains. But, we didn’t. Our military was still in recovery and getting little help from President Carter. Money to pay for adequate training and spare parts needed for worn out equipment was hard to come by. We probably weren’t in shape militarily to mount much of an effort and the President’s approach confirmed that in the minds of the terrorists. To them we were just a big unwieldy, floundering beast not capable of or willing to strike back hard at its enemies. Mr. Carter’s policy of restraint allowed these mullahs to gain foothold in the region, which is why I consider him the father of the movement. Since 1979, the Iranians have spread their hatred for America, Israel and the West in general around the world. Their sponsorship of terrorism has killed many Americans. Hostage taking is not new to the Iranians nor is western reluctance to pound the snot out of them for doing it. That’s why they continue.

The Iranians are doing a great job of exploiting our weakness. In our case, it’s a weak willed and juvenile minded Congress bolstered by a Bush hating liberal media. Some of our lawmakers are offering legislation prohibiting a military strike against Iran. 269 of them, bribed with pork money for everything from peanuts to spinach, voted for surrender. Does one sleep well at night when he trades his honor and our national security for peanuts? You’d think that these allegedly well educated people are aware of the instantaneous worldwide communication of their rhetoric and legislative idiocy and the damage it does to our national security. With every piece of appeasement legislation that passes, the enemy grows a little bolder, just as it did in the years leading up to 9/11.

It’s announced now that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, third in line to the Presidency of the United States, Nancy Pelosi will visit Syria against the wishes of our Commander in Chief. Part of her entourage is West Virginia Democrat, Arab-American, Congressman Nick Rahall. It could be news to some of you that his sister, Tanya Rahall, lobbies for Qatar. She is paid well to lobby her own brother and other members of Congress for Arab interests. Isn’t that enlightening? Interestingly, our first Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison, Democrat from Minnesota will also make the trip. You might recall that he insisted on taking his oath on the Koran, which according to the Islamists is incompatible with democracy. You may also recall the dust up in Minnesota when Muslim taxi drivers decided they’d institute Sharia law and refuse service to anyone carrying visible alcohol.

The person third in line to the Presidency of the United States will defy the President and sit with a known sponsor of terror. What promises might she make? How do you think our enemies, one of which is the President of Syria, view this? Send insurgents and bombers into Iraq to kill Americans and you are rewarded with a visit from the person third in line to the Presidency of the United States. Good deal. It’s the policy of restraint –and appeasement - all over again. If we can just sit and talk, surely Granny Nancy can work this out. After all, Rosie says we should not fear the terrorists because they are mothers and fathers too. That constituent sentiment is reflected in Madam Speaker’s, because I’m smarter than George Bush is, trip to Syria. Let’s sip tea and chat with murderers, kidnappers, beheaders and people who feel divinely led to destroy us. Much will come of that, but probably none of it good.

We have returned to Thermopylae. Our Spartans, the world’s best warriors, stand in the pass to block the Persians bent on our domination. Unfortunate for them, as similar to the Spartans, incredibly stupid, bought and paid for politicians and their Rosie O’Donnell constituencies betrayed then abandoned them. Thanks to them our Warriors, like our volleyball team back at Gannon, are competing a crucial man short. There is a major difference, however, between the Spartans and us. Our Congress voted to send Soldiers to war then voted to abandon them on the battlefield. If there is a worse example in history of the absence of honor among men, I don’t know what it is. It’s what I’ve come to expect from politicians, especially those of the Jimmy Carter party. It leaves you to wonder for whom Congress, Rosie and the other assorted Polecat-Americans are rooting.

There’s an axiom that says an army of sheep led by a lion will defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. Our problem is that our lions are currently led by and entire army of sheep.

Copyright © 2007 J. D. Pendry

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