Posted on 07/18/2015 11:34:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan
A fifth victim of the Chattanooga jihad boy has died: Petty Officer Randall Smith, US Navy.
I'm afraid the makeshift memorials of flags and other patriotic memorabilia that have sprung up on the edge of the police tape depress the hell out of me. A no doubt sincere veneration for the military apparently can only express itself with a feeble passivity that is a large part of the problem. This isn't a time for the bumper-sticker bromides of "We salute our heroes/Thank you for your service/We support our troops". Among the dead are men who waged a bloody and hard-fought battle to retake Fallujah ...only to come home and die unarmed in a crappy shopping mall at the hands of a halfwit fanatic whose family had been under the leisurely money-no-object scrutiny of the bloated security apparatus for years.
A Chinese-made teddy bear from Wal-Mart is not an appropriate reaction. Righteous anger is. And there's not a lot of evidence of that. At that parking-lot memorial, the public seems to discern that such anger is no longer an approved sensibility - whereas a teary generalized sadness gets plenty of media coverage. This is the same media, by the way, that, after a couple of perfunctory questions about Chattanooga, asked Josh Earnest for more details about the "father-daughter weekend" President Obama is currently enjoying in New York. Golly, you'd almost get the impression they're really not that sad at all.
Screw the cakes and balloons. We who did not know them cannot mourn them: That is for their friends and family. The nation's duty is to avenge them - so that they did not die in vain.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Cakes and balloons and teddy bears are fine. But we cannot stop there.
And I fear that it is going to take a reconciliation with the Lord before we can deal sensibly with the issue of our armed forces in dangers that never had to be dangers because some liberal was getting his rocks off.
I like Mark Steyn - a lot - but he’s up in New Hampshire. What’s he going to do? Take his gun and stand outside a recruiting center? I doubt it.
I’m with Steyn on this, we need vengeance not ballons. One mistake that ought to be corrected, the Marines and Sailor were killed at the Naval Reserve Center. No one was killed at the strip mall recruiting office.
Do you really think we need more guns outside recruitment centers here in the northeast?
I doubt it.
How about ‘what are YOU going to do?’
And what are you planning on doing aside from writing a sternly-worded letter?
And yes, I’d love citizens throughout the USA guarding military installations.
How about “both vengeance and balloons.” If it weren’t for what is sometimes called the soft side of life, there would be nothing worth defending either.
Actually, some sensible plans to guard troops are needed. US forces are a world class joke when they get murdered, repeatedly, in situations like this. But again the cobbler’s children go barefoot.
And flying Dixie flags as they did so.
Of course that would be a shaming rebuke to the Obama Pentagon.
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How can you tell the difference anymore? They both tell the exact same lies and hold the public and the Constitution in equal contempt.
One has booed God less
Steyn, you magnificent bastard!
Why not?
This is the same VILE, SOUL-LESS, TRUTH-LESS MEDIA THAT DECENT PEOPLE HAVE COME TO DESPISE!
TRUTH IS NOT EVEN A CONSIDERATION FOR THESE VILE PEOPLE!
THEY ARE TO BE DESPISED BY DECENT PEOPLE EVERYWHERE AND FOR ALL TIME!
ONE ONLY WONDERS WHETHER THESE PEOPLE ARE TRULY THAT STUPID OR WHETHER THEY HAVE LOST THEIR SOULD AND THEIR CAPACITY FOR TRUTH AND DECENCY.
And so, some acts of violence are not/not senseless....the WH, was undisturbed by the situation, almost to the degree that they were expecting the event....
SOULD = SOULS
Today, Jebbie can barely stop from wetting himself with glee as he endorses “trans-gendered” soldiers.
Jeb is the whole GOP?... obsess much?
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