Run Away! Run Away!
That's an ORDER!

The troops of the National Guard have acquitted themselves well as of late in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now we see this;

Guard soldiers back off from armed men out of Mexico

Matthew Benson
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 6, 2007 12:00 AM

A Border Patrol official says National Guard troops acted appropriately this week when they abandoned their post near the border southwest of Tucson as four gunmen approached from Mexico.

It is the nearest that Guard members have come to an armed conflict on the border since spring when President Bush pledged up to 6,000 soldiers to help slow illegal immigration along the nation's 1,950-mile southern border.

No shots were fired in the incident, and no one was injured. Border Patrol spokesman Mario Martinez stressed that "there was no attack."

"What are we paying our National Guard to do (along the border)? That is the question," said Don Goldwater, who led a failed campaign for governor last year on his promise to crack down on illegal immigration.

"We're putting the National Guard down in harm's way along the border with no intention to allow them to protect themselves."

And the real kick in the teeth? Those Guardsmen were following the orders of some gutless bureaucrat in DC. There's no doubt in my mind that those Guardsmen were ready, willing and able to wax these four armed invaders from south of the border.

You know, the last time we had armed bandits from Mexico cross into The United States, we sent troops under General John "Black Jack" Pershing to chase them down.

Now our troops are ordered to run away.