J. D. Pendry

I’ve studied leaders most of my adult life. They were real life studies of the leaders closest to me, not book studies. Shameless plug here, but the product of those observations is The Three Meter Zone. It’s about the leadership that happens close to you and shapes your views on life and leading. All of the good leaders have something in common. They stay focused on the most pressing problem with which they’re faced until it is solved. Their concern for the people they lead is sincere and selfless. The bad ones all suffer from the same malady. Cranial Rectal Inversion Syndrome (CRIS). Their actions always reveal their true focus, which is rarely the most pressing problem or the people they lead.I never paid close attention to politicians until after 9/11. That was the point at which I realized that these are the men and women that will lead our country to victory against the collection of mass murderers who attacked us or they’ll lead us into defeat and submission. Since we are into never-ending political campaigns, I thought it would be a public service to share with you some examples of CRIS.

CRIS sufferers spend much of their time emphasizing that 90 percent of Islam is peaceful. As is typical, their focus is on something that is not the problem. They won’t reinforce to you that the questionable10 percent represents more than 100,000,000 people (equal to one-third the population of the United States) who want you dead. Not only do they want you dead, but they want to die trying to kill you so they can secure their places in paradise. Because that’s what they believe the instruction manual provided to them by their god through their profit tells them to do. The 90 percent is a problem too, but only to the extent that it allows the 10 percent to exist and commit mass murder in the name of their religion.

They will tell you that big oil is the problem and insist that greed is why you pay higher prices at the gas pump. Without greed, there would be no record profits and big oil CEOs wouldn’t get those huge bonuses. The solution to all of our energy problems is to Hugo Chavez the oil industry’s profits, build wind mills, grow more corn and to power our vehicles with French fry grease. Again, they fail to focus on the problem. The problem is that bought and paid for career politicians are the cause of high prices at the gas pump. It starts with our dependence on foreign sources for energy. A problem created primarily by many years of not developing our own resources. Politicians in the pockets of special interest groups have, for most of our lifetimes, prevented the development of our country’s available energy resources. It may shock you to know that we have more potential oil reserve than does the entire Middle East. Read this report, and this one, and this one. You’ll come away knowing that with more than 2.6 trillion barrels of potential oil there is no reason, other than political CRIS, that we should be propping up Middle East terrorist states with oil money. We should be competing with them. One of our strategic goals should be to put OPEC out of business. Politics will prevent that. Big oil is complicit too, make no mistake, but why should they want more oil on the market? Economics 101. Less supply equals high demand. High demand equals high prices. High prices equal large oil industry profits. Could be that’s why they make big contributions to all brands of politicians. Politicians put big oil in the cat bird’s seat it enjoys and they did it at the expense of our national security and your wallet.

When our country is attacked and many innocent people are murdered, they’ll vote to send men and women to war because it’s the popular thing to do. Then when it proves to be a tougher and dirtier task than the sterile bomb sight videos to which Americans became accustomed, and the popularity wanes, they’ll abandon Soldiers on the battlefield and do everything within their power to undermine the mission. It’s because they view the world through the fog of politics where Soldiers are simply a political tool to be sacrificed or abandoned depending on which direction the popular political winds blow.

They’ll tell you all is lost in Iraq and we should quit. What they refuse to see and tell you is that this war is indeed about al Qaeda and its offshoots. If we quit Iraq before al Qaeda is expelled from the country and Iraq is secure, it’ll be the greatest recruiting tool that the terrorists could ever hope for. But, that’s only the tip of it. All around the world and in the Middle East it’ll take little to convince the masses that the most powerful nation on earth is unable to stand up to a stateless collection of terrorists. That America is nothing to fear. That it’s exactly as bin Laden said, a paper tiger. Then, like the New Jersey Nuts, they’ll be here and thicker than flies on a cow pie.

Someday, throughout Washington, DC we need to hear a loud resounding pop. Hopefully, when we do, instead of a bomb it will be the sound of 500 plus heads being pulled from rectums.

Copyright © 2007 J. D. Pendry

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