[HairOfTheDog]

I never read long articles. But I read this one. The whole thing.

As he says at the top of his page... You should grab a cup of coffee and maybe a snack. This essay is marvelous.

I intend to buy his book.

[HairOfTheDog]

Please consider this for your ping lists.

[HairOfTheDog]

Pinging all of my friends here. This is an article that I recommend you give an hour to read... Now, or later, whenever you can. I found it to be too engaging to stop once I began.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1406399/posts

[CGVet58]

bttt - Bill Whittle is BACK!

[Gingersnap]

He doesn't write often and his does write long but Bill is definitely worth adding to your Favorites.

[ThinkDifferent]

Bill Whittle is an incredible writer. Read every essay on his site, or as you said, buy his book.

[bubman]

bump

[Jeff Head]

IMHO, I would not focus so much on the lack of a uniform. Many of the colonists did not have uniforms when they fought the British...that did not make them comparable to the terrorists of today in the least. To the contrary, they were patriots fighting against the tyranny of their day.

Rather, it is how they fight, and who they target and how they go about it, that breeds the understandable and, IMHO, justafiable contempt. Today's terrorist homociders are usually young, fairly ignorant, ideologues who have been indoctrinated in a tyranical ideology/religion by modern tyrants (Bin Laden, Zarquwi, Arafat, etc.).

[Darnright]

This is a must read, hands down. Thanks for posting it.

[JDoutrider]

Bump for later

[hershey]

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease, but not this time. We have to look Islam in the eye and name it for what it is. As long as we pander to Muslims' cult/religion, we're weak and ineffective, and it's Vietnam all over again. They don't follow the rules because the Koran says they don't have to. Simple as that. Meanwhile, Arab tyrants, Democrat Libs, and Euroweenies are only too happy to beat us over the head with whatever scurrilous lie bin Laden and his pals are yelling. If Kerry were President, things would be different. Worse. We'd be on our knees to the UN, and blaming republicans left and right for everything. Now and then dems might spare a thought about DC being blown up by Muslim crackpots sprung from jail by the ACLU and the likes of Ramsey Clark, but we'd be busy with multiculturalism/Muslim sharia, etc., rammed down our throats morning, noon, and night, a la Germany, France, Canada, and Spain.

Libs don't realize America's existence is what annoys Islamofascists. We'd have to vanish from the face of the earth before they'd be satisfied. If we get hit hard again, another 9/11, perhaps Boston or another attack on NY, and this after months or years of appeasing the fiends, even the dumbest lib might acknowledge that something was wrong with our foreign policy. Don't count on it, though.

[King Prout]

Am I surprised that Michael Moore cannot see this difference? I am not. The man has not seen his own toes for two decades, and they are a good deal closer to him than the streets of Fallujah

I would sell my left arm to have this caliber of wit

[King Prout]

must read

[Blood of Tyrants]

I read about the first third and will finish when I get a hour or so. Good reading. The liberals will hate him because guy makes entirely too much sense and threatens their worldview.

[King Prout]

good-stuff/moral-clarity ping

[MSSC6644]

Great essay. The following few sentences alone are worth the entire time spent reading such truly wonderful thoughts.

War is hell, and soldiers have to live there. It is an unbearable burden; unbearable in the sense that not a single man and woman who has been fully exposed to war has ever come back home. Someone else comes back home. Sometimes, it is a better person. Sometimes a worse one. But they are different, all changed in the horror and crucible of war.

[baystaterebel]

Possibly the best essay I have ever read. Not only is it worth every second, I wanted more.

Who hasn't stood behind that greasy haired ponytail as he bitches about capitalism, Bush, the war in Iraq and especially his country and you bite down hard on that cork knowing if you don't you are going to blow like a volcano?

Everything in this essay is spot on. Like the author I stand beside him with my jaw hanging wide open wondering what it is that those on the left just don't get. What more do they need to see and where does this self loathing come from? Are they truly that ignorant? Are they just taking the easy road of avoiding the heavy lifting of defending their country? What is it?

We call these people educated, at least those with a college degree, but what has years of schooling taught them? To be honest, I put more stock in the knowledge of the janitor with a GED in these colleges then I do with most of the professors with Ph D's.

Thanks for posting this. I am saving the link and I am going to print it out for others to read at work. Next comes the mans book.

[Eagles6]

save

[mississippi red-neck]

Long but worth it.

[Crawdad]

I pulled this gem out: "There are millions of photos of people protesting President Bush. There is not a single photo of people in the street protesting Hitler."