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Title: Jack Bauer for president
Source: World Net Daily
URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53986
Published: Jan 29, 2007
Author: Joseph Farah
Post Date: 2007-01-30 11:54:58 by SmokinOPs
Keywords: Jack Bauer, torture, fantasies
Views: 387
Comments: 22

There's a reason Fox's "24" is the most popular show on television.

It's not just the suspense. It's not just the action. It's not just the great premise, the great writing, the great performances and the great production values.

It's because America loves Jack Bauer. We recognize we need him.

If you have watched even a few episodes of "24," you realize it's not decisions by the president of the United States that save Americans from disaster after disaster. It's individual initiative and courage displayed by Jack Bauer – the man we're constantly reminded is "expendable."

Viewers understand Jack Bauer is the one indispensable character. They recognize without him, or others like him, all is lost. Presidents come and go. Jack Bauer remains – and, as long as he remains, there is hope the bad guys will continue to be foiled in their efforts to kill Americans and destroy their country.

To say Jack Bauer's methods are "controversial" would be an understatement. Quite frankly, his methods would be illegal in the real America – and not only in the way they are employed inside the country against citizens, but even on America's battlefields and in foreign places with names like Abu Graib and Guantanamo Bay.

Back in the real world, President Bush is hoping to win his war in Iraq by sending in 20,000 more U.S. troops. But what he needs, figuratively speaking, is Jack Bauer.

He needs new tactics. He needs intelligence. He needs information extracted from captives on the battlefield and enemies picked up on the streets of America. Actually what he needs is a dose of common sense – not really anything new.

He needs to turn our brave fighting men loose. He needs to free their hands of the restraints he and the Congress of the United States have placed on them with regard to interrogation techniques. He needs to return to the rules of engagement that made the American military the envy of the world.

Prior to November 2004, there was little question anywhere that America was accomplishing its mission in Iraq. It was destroying the enemy and transforming the country into a U.S. ally in the Middle East.

But what happened in November 2004 changed all that. It wasn't a victory on the battlefield by al-Qaida. It wasn't a spontaneous uprising by America's enemies. It wasn't any failure by U.S. troops.

It was a public-relations disaster called Abu Graib. That media coup for the enemy set off a chain of events that ultimately led the politicians in Washington to handcuff our troops – ensuring the quagmire that followed.

Abu Graib spelled the end of coercive interrogations. Now enemy captives know they don't have to talk. They know exactly what U.S. interrogators will and won't do to get information. They have no fear. They know Jack Bauer isn't coming.

That's why Bush's plan for more troops won't work. It's not more troops we need. It's taking the handcuffs off the troops already on the battlefield that is needed.

When we stopped performing coercive interrogations, we no longer had the ability to prevent attacks before they happened. We no longer had the human intelligence we had prior to November 2004. What we get from prisoners now is nothing, nada, zilch, zip … bupkiss.

Does anyone in Washington watch "24"? Does President Bush? Does Nancy Pelosi? Does Harry Reid? What do they think of it? Do they cheer on Jack Bauer? Or, do they scream at the television: "Arrest that man!"

I really wonder.

Because America needs Jack Bauers. We will lose Iraq if we fail to recognize war is a dirty business that must be waged with the understanding that anything short of victory is unacceptable.

There will be a presidential election in 2008, God willing.

I hope there will be a Jack Bauer among the candidates.

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#15. To: SmokinOPs (#0)

I have to admit, I was relieved when I saw the author was the retard Farah.

angle  posted on  2007-01-30   13:53:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: angle (#15) (Edited)

I have to admit, I was relieved when I saw the author was the retard Farah.

I can dig up some equally retarded Jonah Goldberg pieces with "Simpson's" quotes in National Review or Johnathan V. Last's "Star Wars" references in the Weekly Standard if you want to be more disturbed.

SmokinOPs  posted on  2007-01-30   13:59:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: SmokinOPs (#16)

Johnathan V. Last's "Star Wars" references in the Weekly Standard if you want to be more disturbed.

Is that where he said the good guys of Star Wars was the Empire and he defended the "judicious" use of the Death Star to kill entire planets?

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-01-30   14:05:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Burkeman1 (#17)

Is that where he said the good guys of Star Wars was the Empire and he defended the "judicious" use of the Death Star to kill entire planets?

That would be the one.

The Case for the Empire

Johnathan Last

The destruction of Alderaan is often cited as ipso facto proof of the Empire's "evilness" because it seems like mass murder--planeticide, even. As Tarkin prepares to fire the Death Star, Princess Leia implores him to spare the planet, saying, "Alderaan is peaceful. We have no weapons." Her plea is important, if true.

But the audience has no reason to believe that Leia is telling the truth. In Episode IV, every bit of information she gives the Empire is willfully untrue. In the opening, she tells Darth Vader that she is on a diplomatic mission of mercy, when in fact she is on a spy mission, trying to deliver schematics of the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance. When asked where the Alliance is headquartered, she lies again.

Leia's lies are perfectly defensible--she thinks she's serving the greater good--but they make her wholly unreliable on the question of whether or not Alderaan really is peaceful and defenseless. If anything, since Leia is a high-ranking member of the rebellion and the princess of Alderaan, it would be reasonable to suspect that Alderaan is a front for Rebel activity or at least home to many more spies and insurgents like Leia.

Whatever the case, the important thing to recognize is that the Empire is not committing random acts of terror. It is engaged in a fight for the survival of its regime against a violent group of rebels who are committed to its destruction.

You see, blowing up a planet would just seem like planeticide. It wouldn't actually be planeticide in the post-modern, hermeneutic world of the Neocon.

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