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As you know, I have a hard time doing what respectable
conservatives do best. What respectables do best
is to worship anybody in a uniform or anybody in
Intelligence.
Liberals do exactly the same job of falling on
their tummies when they worship liberal idols. So
when the teachers' unions report another major failure,
they just get that "I'm a Professional" look on
their face and liberals demand that we give them
more money to waste.
When experts are talking about how they have failed
-- AGAIN -- exactly the same thing happens with
liberals and conservatives. The experts they worship
will differ, but the scenario is an exact repeat.
So when a group of conservatives asks why the intelligence
services have failed - AGAIN - to come through -
the Security Hero gets a pained expression on his
face and explains to these poor, silly amateurs
that all this is very complicated stuff and he is
out there in the field and he is the big expert
and what in the hell are they doing criticizing
all those Heroic Experts.
And when a group of liberals asks why social services
have failed - AGAIN -- the Professor or teacher's
union rep gets a pained expression on his face and
explains to these poor, silly amateurs that all
this is very complicated stuff and he is out there
in the field and he is the big expert and what in
the hell are they doing criticizing all those Heroic
Experts.
Whenever any security expert is interviewed about
the total failures of our intelligence, he gets
that self-righteous, pained look on his face. The
Tough Guy Expert explains that the only reason we
expect intelligence to come up with anything is
because we are not Great Professionals like he is.
We are all civilian wimps while this guy is a Big
Pro. He may not be able to warn us about anything
we need to know about, but he is a Brave, Tough,
Big Man, and we are a bunch of ignoramuses.
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WHERE WERE
ALL THOSE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE HEROES WHEN US
"EXTREMISTS" WERE CRITICIZING THE LIBERALS?
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All those Military Experts and Security Experts
we are paying may look like Tough Guy Heroes when
they are making conservatives crawl. But when they
face real criticism, they have a torrent of excuses.
For instance, security experts are always whining
about how liberals like Senator Torricelli crippled
their work. But not a one of them said a single
word about Torricelli or any other liberal back
when we needed those Tough Guy Heroes to say something.
If anybody in Intelligence had complained about
liberals crippling their work when we needed them
to, their superiors would have ruined them, and
we all know it. None of the Tough Guy Heroes is
Tough and Heroic out in public when it counts.
When those of us who dared complain when it counted
did complain, the Intelligence Experts would testify
about how patriotic the wonderful liberals like
Senators Church and Torricelli were.
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IS
IT RIGHT TO ASK SECURITY AGENCIES TO DO THEIR JOBS?
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When I was in public service, I was always aware that
I was drawing a salary and exercising power, and I had
to justify it EVERY DAY. When I see some guy in the security
services talking on television, I get the impression that
he feels that we owe him his supper.
One of the most famous quotes from Ronald Reagan was,
"Mr. Gorbaczev, tear down this wall." And I think we all
know how many people tried to get him to take that out
of his speech in West Berlin. Time after time the final
draft came back to him with those lines quietly taken
out. He quietly kept putting them back.
He stood in front of the Berlin Wall, which all the liberal
apologists for Communism had been ignoring, and demanded
RESULTS.
If I had been Reagan, I would have been as demanding
of my staff as I was with Gorbaczev. If I kept putting
"Tear down this Wall" in my speech and my staff had removed
something AGAIN that I had put back in my speech AGAIN,
they would have been looking for new jobs.
Someday we may have congressmen who say to security chest-beaters,
"Stop the enemy or get out." Someday, some conservative
may actually object to the repeated failures who are Official
Experts daring to show up with two generations of uninterrupted
failure.
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ASK
AND IT WILL BE GRANTED TO YOU, AND VICE-VERSA
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When education specialists or sociologists or psychologists
show up in front of congressional committees, nobody asks
them if their programs WORK. Since we started hiring thousands
of Criminology graduates to be our experts on crime, the
rate has shot up out of sight.
The more money we hand over to our educational experts,
the worse every measurable result gets.
By now, in any rational world, it should take incredible
gall for a social "expert" to show up in front of a congressional
committee. But in the real world, that never even occurs
to anybody.
The fact is that we respect failure and we are happy
to pay for failure if you show up with the right degree
or the right uniform. It never seriously occurs to liberals
or conservatives that we have a right to demand any results
from anybody who draws public money.
The Bible says "Seek and ye shall find." No matter how
hard you seek, the fact is that you may not find. But
if you don't even ASK for results, you certainly won't
get them.
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WHILE
EXCUSING ALL THE FAILURES, WHOM DO WE REWARD?
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There has recently been a big to-do over one memo where
a security man predicted that the Arabs training at flight
schools in the United States might grab planes and use
them to attack targets in the USA.
Everybody is arguing about whether that one memo of the
thousands going up the security chain should have been
recognized for its importance. Let me ask an entirely
different question.
Do you think that the guy who wrote that memo will take
the place of any of the higher ups who slept through reading
it?
Nobody else is going to ask that.
All these security chest-beaters have said the Senator
Torrecellis have ruined American security. Did you hear
a single one of those people going on news shows and talking
about this before September 11?
Of course not. They are big heroic patriots, but not
patriotic enough to get out there and expose themselves
that way.
I can personally testify to something you already know:
There is nothing less rewarding in public service than
being right when it counts. And as long as that is the
case, I do wish people would stop blubbering over the
deaths and injuries we are going to sustain, and the destruction
of our children in schools.
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When you threaten to take away some bureaucrat's pay and
privileges because he is not doing his job, his excuse
is always, "Well, you're just using hindsight, and hindsight
is always perfect."
This neatly bypasses the basic reality, which is that
he is getting PAID. If his foresight is no better than
mine, he shouldn't be getting PAID.
In other words, if you can't stand the heat, get out
of the kitchen.
Let me illustrate this point:
1) I am typing this on a computer. I do not know who
made this computer, but I am sure they are nice people,
2) If this computer doesn't work, I will fire the nice
people who made it. That is, I will send it back and buy
someone else's computer.
3) They could say that if they had known about the defect
in this computer, they would have corrected it ahead of
time. So I'm just using hindsight, and I am being unfair.
4) Tough. They get my money if they do their job. Excuses
don't cut it.
5) The bottom line is this: If you keep people on because
they are nice or their colleagues like them or because
they are big tough pros and you are a wimp civilian, you
are a fool. This is true even when the problem is just
a few glitches on a cheap computer.
6) So if you keep paying somebody who fails at saving
lives, you are an idiot.
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