“Thank God for the U.S. Navy”

I have been holding off on commenting on the Navy’s contributions to the Tsunami relief (mostly because since Christmas, working the CONUS end of that issue is about 70% of my work load) as I wanted to wait and get some distance, and to be honest, I tire of bashing the yapping lapdogs of the U.N. and the Euro-Socialist Pact.

Bravo Zulu to Varifrank for doing my job! I cannot improve on his prose and personal intervention. Here I quote the meaty part, but check out his whole blog for more. Great POST!! (especially about all I could say up till now is "UN, Euroweenies: BITE ME", and that isn't professional enough to put in my blog.

Today, during an afternoon conference that wrapped up my project of the last 18 months, one of my Euro colleagues tossed this little turd out to no one in particular:

"See, this is why George Bush is so dumb, there's a disaster in the world and he sends an Aircraft Carrier..."

After which he and many of my Euro colleagues laughed out loud.
and then they looked at me. I wasn't laughing, and neither was my Hindi friend sitting next to me, who has lost family in the disaster.

I'm afraid I was "unprofessional", I let it loose -

"Hmmm, let's see, what would be the ideal ship to send to a disaster, now what kind of ship would we want?

Something with its own inexhaustible power supply?

Something that can produce 900,000 gallons of fresh water a day from sea water?

Something with its own airfield? So that after producing the fresh water, it could help distribute it?

Something with 4 hospitals and lots of open space for emergency supplies?

Something with a global communications facility to make the coordination of disaster relief in the region easier?

Well "Franz", us peasants in America call that kind of ship an "Aircraft Carrier". We have 12 of them. How many do you have? Oh that's right, NONE. Lucky for you and the rest of the world, we are the kind of people who share. Even with people we don't like. In fact, if memory serves, once upon a time we peasants spent a ton of money and lives rescuing people who we had once tried to kill and who tried to kill us.
Do you know who those people were? that's right Franz, Europeans.

There's is a French Aircraft carrier? where is it? Right where it belongs! In France of course! Oh why should the French Navy dirty their uniforms helping people on the other side of the globe. How Simplesse...

The day an American has to move a European out of the way to help in some part of the world it will be a great day in the world, you sniggering little f**knob..."

The room fell silent. My hindi friend then said quietly to the Euros:
"Can you let your hatred of George Bush end for just one minute? There are people dying! And what are your countries doing? Amazon.com has helped more than France has. You all have a role to play in the world, why can't you see that? Thank God for the US Navy, they don't have to come and help, but they are. They helped you once and you should all thank God they did. They didn't have to, and no one but them would have done so. I'm ashamed of you all..."

Some my say this was made up. Well, I don't care. It says the truth from my perspective and sounds up front.

In addition, he gives a plug for a leader all military professionals should study, Col. Gail Halvorsen, USAF (Ret.)





Hat tip to Palmtree Pundit for the tip. Anne gets all the goodies.

UPDATE: Powerline has an outstanding first hand account from a fellow CDR onstation. Makes you want to check you Gig Line next time you get up from your desk.