We weren't going to post today. But then we came across a quote and we realized we would never have a better opportunity to show the difference between an ignorant moron and an intellectual.
The ignorant moron, we call him Moe, you know him as the current secretary of defense Pete Hegseth.
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Hegseth said this in a speech to Nato at Brussels this past Thursday:
"We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values. You can't shoot flags. And you can't shoot strong speeches. There is no replacement for power."
Maybe long time and careful readers of the blog will know where we are going next.
It's a good thing Hegseth was not prime minister of England in 1940. Because before they had enough bullets and tanks and aeroplanes to fight Germany, they had Churchill. And Churchill had the English language.
In what is our opinion the greatest peroration in the history of the English speaking peoples (Lincoln's Gettysburg address is the greatest speech) Churchill "mobilized the English Language and sent it into battle." He rallied a nation who had just barely saved its army from capture at Dunkirk. He told a worried island nation that if invasion came they would never surrender. And he saved humanity from Nazism.
If you want to hear the quote, scroll ahead to 5 minutes. But spend the seven minutes and watch the speech. It changed history. It did what Hegseth's view of "power" could never do. Because it set the vision for using power in defense of "values" and ideals.
There is no effective use of power without values and ideal. Ask the Chinese tank commanders at Tiananmen Square.
This, dear readers, is the difference between an ignorant moron, and a genius leader.
6 comments:
Who is Moe of the SAO?
It’s an honor and privilege to be a “ Moe”
It’s not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Reality check. You write a blog! Let’s see how the men in the arena do … take it easy.
Gettysburg isn’t even Lincoln’s best. Second inaugural. Each reads the same bible and prays to the same god and each invokes his aid against the other though it may seem strange that any man dares to seek the assistance of a just god in wringing his bread from the sweat of other men’s faces but let us judge not that we be not judged. That’s a speech for grownups. And just the beginning even though it is really short. Churchill had a way, though. Do you think Mr. Hegseth realizes he’s paraphrasing Mao?
Hegseth is a buffoon. During his fist European lampoon vacation as Defense Secretary he proved to our allies and foes alike that it is possible to be more dangerous and inept than his clueless master.
Sounds like ASA’s
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