The men are back in town
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"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."
– Mark Anthony in 'Julius Caesar'
There have been times during the kumbaya-feminazi dark ages (1992-2000) when I really felt like a dinosaur … a cultural anachronism … who still believed in duty, honor and country. John Wayne was a role model and guys like Audie Murphy and Rocky Versace were proof that ideals, courage and principle could and would be personified.
I suffered the sin of pride at achievements that would be denigrated by left-wing elitist purveyors of political correctness: Eagle Scout, Green Beret, Black Belt, trophies and promotions. I thought I was making myself a better man, but to leftists my accomplishments deserved only their scorn.
When I read Peggy Noonan's "Welcome Back, Duke" in the Wall Street Journal my involuntary response to the stimuli was a tear. Please read that column!
http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=95001309
Noonan wrote, "It is not only that God is back, but that men are back. A certain style of manliness is once again being honored and celebrated in our country since Sept. 11."
Noonan noted, "I am speaking of masculine men, men who push things and pull things and haul things and build things, men who charge up the stairs in a hundred pounds of gear and tell everyone else where to go to be safe. … And their style is back in style. We are experiencing a new respect for their old-fashioned masculinity, a new respect for physical courage, for strength and for the willingness to use both for the good of others."
Dr. Robert Humphrey's "Warrior Creed" capsulated what Peggy alludes to:
Wherever I go, everyone is a little bit safer because I am there.
Wherever I am, anyone in need has a friend.
Whenever I return home, everyone is happy I am there.
Stephanie Gutman, author of "A Kinder Gentler Military" observed, "Although the courage of the servicemen taking part in the current operations is beyond question, the fact remains that U.S. military leaders have been in the grip of an identity crisis.
"For years, they have presided over a demasculinisation, a hollowing out of military policy, that I have heard described as America's dirty little secret. But it is a secret that bin Laden knows."
We know he knows because he said so. In May 1998, he told an ABC television reporter, "We have seen, in the last decade, the decline of the American government," said bin Laden. "This was proven in Beirut, when the Marines fled after two explosions.
"This was also repeated in Somalia. After a few blows, the soldiers ran in defeat and America forgot all the media propaganda about being the leader of the world. ... The U.S. is a paper tiger."
The fascinating and contradictory reality is he was kinda-sorta right – however, in a classic case of his reach exceeding his grasp, he has almost single handedly done what decades of political correctness cancer prevented. He awakened a sleeping atrophied giant and breathed fire into his soul.
There is a great line in an old Charlie Daniels song in which he sings, "Those 'outside people' best leave us alone … Because we'll all stick together … and you can take that to the bank … Yeah the cowboys and the hippies and the rednecks and the yanks. You just go and lay your hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, and I think you're finally going to understand."