Squadron 303 And How Hating Wins Wars

                                              

                                                              Hate speech wins wars

The RAF squadron which claimed more kills than any other in the Battle of Britain was only unleashed halfway into the struggle.

During the time it fought, the Polish 303 squadron accounted for more than twice as many downed Nazis as its nearest rival.

And all this despite the fact that the 303 was equipped with the Hawker Hurricane, a lower performance fighter than the Spitfire which all the other top scoring squadrons flew.

The war winning method the Polish fliers used is simple and age old. How they racked up such an  incredible number of dead Nazis was explained by British Battle of Britain fighter pilot, Billy Drake, in a Channel 4 interview:

“These Polish, they loathed the Germans. All we (the British) were interested in was to destroy aeroplanes, whereas the Poles, they wanted to kill anybody that was in these aeroplanes.”

As we should know in these days of Islamist atrocities, nothing is more bowel-loosening than being faced with an enemy that hates you so much that he’d rather die than miss an opportunity to kill you as painfully as possible.

During the Battle of Britain the 303’s own station commander at Northolt, Stanley Vincent, was so sceptical of their extraordinary kill claims that he followed them into battle to see for himself. What he witnessed stunned him.

On spotting the enemy the Poles peeled off and dived almost vertically “with almost suicidal impetus” at the German bombers. The Polish pilots closed to almost collision point before ripping the Nazi planes apart at close range. Panicked at the ferocity of the attack the enemy broke formation and as Vincent related: “Suddenly the air was full of burning aircraft, parachutes and pieces of disintegrating wings. It was all so rapid it was staggering.”

A veteran fighter pilot himself, Vincent joined the fight, but every time he lined up to attack an enemy bomber a “diving Pole would cut in between, and I had to pull away to avoid being hit myself.”

What Vincent witnessed was the battle winning quality of detesting your enemy.

In other engagements their hate for the Nazis led the Poles to pursue their enemy all the way back to France, to circle over Kent so as to catch damaged enemy planes limping home, to riddle Nazi pilots with machine gun fire as they dangled helplessly from their chutes. And in one memorable case, a Polish pilot who was out of ammunition forced a hedge hopping German plane to crash by threatening collision.

Seventy years ago that visceral hatred of the Polish pilots for Germans very likely was the difference between victory and defeat in that decisive battle. A battle that if lost, could have lost the war for Britain.

Curiously enough, our barbaric hate of former years was not only effective in winning wars but also in bringing the enemy round to our point of view. Compare how the “Kill Japs” exhortation from admiral William F “Bull” Halsey and the firebombing of whole cities somehow gave rise to a democratic Germany and Japan. Whereas a decade of kissing up to the jihadis has only made them detest us more than ever. There’s an important psychological lesson there, which despite our contemporary obsession with the subject seems to have eluded us.

So we in the West have made enormous progress in respecting the lives and beliefs of our enemies. These days even Osama bin Laden is laid to rest with all the correct Muslim funeral rites. The enemy may torture our captured soldiers to death to make recruiting videos, but we rise above such barbaric hate to provide halal food and deliver Korans untouched by our "filthy infidel hands".

But despite our overwhelming military superiority and our amazingly inclusive niceness we can’t seem to win any wars.

All the ordinary soldiers’ accounts from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan make pretty clear just why that is. What these patriotic men write confirms that compared to the struggle with their own leaders and lawyers beating the enemy is a piece of cake. Good effective haters still exist, but their loyalty is being strained to breaking point by our traitorous leaders.

The experience of Chris Kyle the most prodigiously successful American sniper of all time was typical. He was daily harassed by career-minded, safety-first officers and the ever present threat of imprisonment for actually fighting the war. Extremely restrictive Rules of Engagement prevented American soldiers firing on the enemy until they were fired upon themselves. Just one of the advantages this gave the murdering jihadis was the possibility of deploying unarmed spotters as close as they liked to American forces with impunity.

And just how real the threat of imprisonment for doing their duty is to our soldiers was demonstrated by the 20 year sentence handed down a couple of months ago to US Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance for killing what he considered to be two Taliban spotters.

In Iraq the overwhelming US superiority in firepower and the patriotism of its soldiers eventually did win the war, though at a far higher cost in American body bags than was necessary if the guys at the sharp end had been trusted to do their stuff.

The British on the other hand, much further down the touchy feelly road to ruin, were forced into a humiliating retreat from Basra. Sadly our daily assertions of our love and respect for Islam seemed to have no effect on the murderous glee with which the locals chopped up our boys.

Our soldiers failed because their leaders sent them to die for nothing. After all what is the point of deploying soldiers who are not allowed to fight those killing them.

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Hate, of course, has not been abolished, such a primal emotion cannot be, it has just been redirected.

Recently pundits from across the political spectrum welcomed the Damascene conversion of English Defence League leader, Tommy Robinson, to the "Religion of Peace" view of Islam. But those of his supporters who felt betrayed by Tommy’s betrayal should have taken into account the tidal wave of hate he was subjected to.

Maybe Tommy could have taken being reviled by almost everybody left and right as a modern day Nazi. Maybe he could have tolerated state authorities continually harassing and imprisoning him without cause. Maybe he could even have borne the police not protecting him from Muslim death threats, but rather using them to intimidate him. But I expect the unrelenting hate and very real danger directed at his family broke his will in the end as it would break almost anybody’s.

So to put the disgusting smug attitude with which even right wing journalists welcomed the news of Tommy breaking under torture into perspective, compare the treatment of the EDL leader who upheld multiculturalism and never advocated violence to that of Qatada a murdering terrorist who called for the killing of British civilians.

Qatada was given asylum and a British passport when he was on the run from terrorism charges in Jordan. Qatada received hundreds of thousands in benefits and free accommodation from us, the enemy he continually reviled. Qatada and his ever growing family were given 24-hour police protection from people who have as yet killed nobody. Qatada was defended by the finest legal minds at a cost of millions to the tax payer.

If Tommy had been treated only as well as this scumbag terrorist enemy he would still be leading the EDL.

So hate has not been abolished as a tool of war. It is used today just as effectively as ever. But the difference is that these days thanks to the multicultural religion of our leaders it is directed not against the enemies of our civilisation, but against anyone who opposes our enemies and fights for his country.

And hate, so effective in defeating enemies, is just as effective when directed in a suicidal impulse at western civilisation itself.