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June 20, 2005
The Left's War on the War on Terrorism
Though more subtle than Senator Dick's awful comments (read Powerline's latest here), the left's snickering over military recruitng problems is just as nauseating.
Maybe that dispiriting negativisism, the message that we're losing and should give up fighting the "wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time" is taking a toll. Maybe 18 year-olds read putrid lies like the recent one about about Marines kipnapping a potential recruit (click here for the hook, line and sinker); or have seen media vultures -- the vast majority of whom have no idea what it might be like to fight in a war against animals with guns -- circle young soldiers guilty of little more than hazing and then sneer as they were convicted and shipped off to prison; maybe potential recruits heard about Ilaro Pantano, and the hell he experienced while our God damn American politicians betrayed him; and maybe they noticed the fretting over "degrading" photos of Saddam Hussein, by the same bunch who take such frequent pleasure in humiliating the Commander-in-Chief. Maybe, too, the putrid Memorial Day protests, the likening (by a U.S. Senator speaking on the Senate floor) of his military to Nazis; the fact that terrorist detainees eat better than military men do; and the pittance of any news about progress and heroes are having their effect. Maybe they watched Farenheit 9/11 and, because they're young, or impressionable, believed the Michael Moore's propaganda.
The White House, and bureaucracy aren't blameless for recruiting problems, either, but give me a break. Powerline sums things up well:
It is hard to escape the sense that some politicians, like some reporters, look back fondly on their anti-Vietnam war days and would like to recreate the same "success" thirty-five years later. Let's hope they fail.
I do hope they fail but some "success," it seems, may already be theirs. Thanks, Democrats!
Posted by bill at June 20, 2005 11:14 AM
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