Peace...Through Superior Firepower

Peace through superior firepower -

I always loved that slogan... but never bought the t-shirt. Anyway, just a little something I thought I'd jump onto.

The 2008 Corvette. What a car. I'd love to own one, but don't. Why? It's cost is too high for me.

I saw a beautiful home on 210 acres listed for sale not long ago. I didn't buy it. Why? The cost was far too high.

Funny thing about such things we wish to have, they often come at too high a price for what we can, or are willing to pay. Take waging war on America. Throughout our history, some have tried and paid a terrible price for it. Many might hate us enough to want to wage war, but don't. Why? They hate us enough, so why? What is it that stops them?

It strikes me that the slogan, "Peace...through superior firepower", suggests that to have peace, one would have enough firepower that anyone wanting to challenge that peace would pay a very high price for the attempt. The whole Cold War and the Arms Race was built on such a theory.

Even crime is the same way. Criminals, with perhaps the exception of crimes of passion or spontanious stupidity, at least go through some calculation of the "cost factor" to them before committing their crimes. If there is little chance of getting caught, and if the "cost" isn't deemed too high, then the criminal just may think it "pays". But if the perceived "cost" is too high, then the likelihood of the criminal to commit it is far reduced. "Crime doesn't pay", would come into play. I think the same can be said for, "War with America doesn't pay".

This all leads me to this point. (And thanks to Ted Nugent's stand on the 2nd Amendment for inspiring this entry to my Blog.) If every legally permissible citizen was to be armed, every would-be criminal would have a whole lot more to worry about, such as losing his/her life, in their pursuit of mis-justice on their fellow man. Therefore, the "Peace through superior firepower", by virtue of not having an unarmed and easy citizenry to prey upon, could provide for less crime and fewer victims. The "cost" could be death to anyone wanting to victimize people. That's a high price for jewelry, TVs, cash, or what ever. MOST crimes are not worth dying for.


This same thought process (of mine anyway) extends to the world and those who would want us dead. And, also goes for those who wish to stand by and let others cause our demise. If the threat isn't the ultimate price, then their calculation may likely be that it "could be" worth it to do us harm, or stand by and permit others to do so.


Fear is powerful. Fear of dying is the most powerful, and that's why the terrorists use it. We don't. But we should. WHOA...you say. Okay, bare with me.....Here's where all this is leading to - As a powerful and wealthy nation, we need to use both hands in our world and foreign policies.


In one hand ... we offer help (money, manpower, what ever help we can provide) to those who want it and will stand beside us while offering it.


In the other hand ... FIREPOWER! With NO limit set on what ever it takes to get a job done. You screw with us, or very close ally, then we should take all measure to inflict as much damage and pain as we can, and in the shortest time possible. We should instill as much destruction and fear as our "power" can deliver. And, this means to all those who stand by and let our enemies attack us from their neighborhoods and cities.


Who said, "Walk softely and carry a big stick"? (Teddy Roosevelt?) Well, that should be us today. Not to "rule" any other country, but if someone causes us harm ... ALL means of destruction should befall them.


We ARE the mightiest nation on earth. We need to act like it when it comes to such matters. War is hell. War is ugly. War kills people. If we enter into a war upon a nation of people, we need to make it as ugly as possible, and get it over with as soon as possible. Anyone wanting to do us harm, needs to know, with absolute sureity, that it will cost them dearly. So dearly, that survival is NOT likely. So dearly, that those around them would rather die trying to stop their neighbor from committing such an act against us, than face what hurt would come by standing quiet.


This goes for our current actions in Iraq. If a neighborhood is the scene of an aggressor's attacks on us, they need to know that their neighborhood will cease to exist. They need to know that life, as they have known it, will no longer be. THAT, in MY view, would cause those people who sit by and let terrorists use their neighborhoods, to rise up and at least point out those terrorists and let us take the fight only to them. Otherwise, those people doing NOTHING, will pay dearly.


Like him, or not, President Bush was right to say, "You're either for us, or against us" in this war on terror. Standing by, doing nothing, is just what the terrorists want.)


Harsh? YES. That's war. We bombed whole cities, just to get at the German military machine. Now, we are trying to kill our enemies ... surgically. A nice idea. Very civilized. But WRONG! THIS is war and we are being hampered by the fear the terrorists instill in people, so much more so than we are. People fear THEM more than us. That needs to change.


Okay, permit me this annogy - When I was a youngster... (Yeah, I'm a bit older than most on here I bet) ... If I got in trouble at school with a teacher, I feared what would happen to me when I got home MORE than what ever happened to me at school. My parents LOVED me, yet I KNEW that if I did wrong, I was in deep poop when I got home. I knew that if I broke the rules at school, I broke THEIR rules of my conduct in their house by doing so at school. I KNEW...with absolute certainty, that I was in trouble. Consequently, I was in far less trouble than I would've been in, just having that in the back of my head. I may have thought about doing something...but just KNOWING what would happen kept me from doing it.


Our societial and foreign policies need to project that same awareness of conseqences. We're not there.


And polititicans beware - YOU need to be ONE LOUD VOICE in the world, saying this - SCREW WITH US, AND YOU PAY...HEAVILY!


Peace...Through Superior Firepower!

2nd Amendment, as expressed by Ted Nugent

This video interview with Texas Monthly and Ted Nugent is well worth watching. Like him or not, the message is dead-on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QjEL0uUgo

My view exactly Ted!
Dan