Monday, July 21, 2014

From my Firearms Instructor

19 July 14

Lusitania?

"I have never heard anything about the 'resolutions' of the Apostles, but
I  have heard a good deal about their 'Acts.'"

Og Mandino

Under a timid, military-hating President Wilson, America resisted becoming
involved in what would ultimately be called "The Great War" (WW1), already
raging in Europe since July of 1914.


"No boots on the ground" articulated the pacifist mantra then, as  now.

The catalatic event that drew America into the War was the precipitous
sinking of the cruise ship, Lusitania, just off the Irish coast on 7 May  1915.
The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine.  Twelve  hundred
passengers died as a result.  128 were Americans.

Since the beginning of the War, cruise ships, including the Lusitania, had
been used to surreptitiously supply the British with war materials.  Since
America was officially "neutral," such materials could not be delivered
openly.  Of course, as with most military "secrets," everyone knew it,
including the Germans.

The exasperated captain of the German submarine, U-20, Walter Schwieger,
upon sighting the Lusitania that Friday afternoon had had enough, and ordered
the attack!

President Wilson, who was narrowly reelected in 1916 under the adolescent
slogan, "He kept us out of war," was transformed from a sanctimonious,
pacifist  war-hater, to an enthusiastic war-monger!  At his urging, America
officially entered the War on 6 Apr 17.

However, American military forces, victims of years of neglect under the
Wilson Administration, were badly out of date and suffering from severe lack
of  training, and obsolete equipment.  Even after the passage of the Draft
Act  in May of 1917, the  first American troops, mostly conscripts, did not
arrive in Europe until the summer of 1918.  The War officially ended in
November of the same year.

Six months after sinking the Lusitania, the U-20 was mistakenly grounded in
heavy fog on the Danish coast.  Her crew, unable to extricate her, blew
her  up in place.

Schwieger himself died, at the age of thirty-two, when his boat, now the
U-88, struck a British mine in September of 1917.  His remains, and those  of
his crew, are still entombed in the sunken submarine, to this day.

Fast forward to 17 July 2014 (Thursday), ninety-nine years later. 
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 (Boeing 777), a unarmed commercial passenger jet,
is, without warning, shot down by a sophisticated Russian surface-to-air
missile  over Ukraine.  298 dead, no survivors!

USA, UK, and all of Western Europe are incensed!   Russia's  Putin, true to
character, tries to weasel out of responsibility, but even now,  everyone
knows the truth.

Meantime, Putin's acolytes in Ukraine are busily destroying all evidence at
the crash-site and simultaneously preventing any kind of competent
investigation, as if one were necessary!

What will BHO, NATO, and the Western allies do?

Nothing!

By the end of the year, the incident will be long forgotten (except by
families of murdered victims).

Putin will continue, unhindered by the West, with his violent annexation of
Ukraine, and other independent nations.  When evidence of the
missile-launch overwhelmingly points to him, he'll say, as he has in the past,  "So,
what are you going to do about it?" He has absolute confidence no one will
call his bluff, and he is right!

Malaysia Airlines will replace its lost 777 and continue to look for ways
to save on fuel.

And, BHO will blithely resume talking about "income inequality,"   "global
warming," and amnesty for illegal Democrat voters, in-between  fund-raising
trips and lavish vacations.

The downward spiral of Western Civilization continues, with only a few,
mostly insignificant, speed-bumps.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

John Adams

That, of course, is the problem!

/Jxxxx


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