Using human shields is the work of cowards. The S-CHIP Controversy

The Virginian ^ | 10/11/2007 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

Using human shields is the work of cowards.

This is true whether it’s Islamofascists hiding behind civilians to carry out attacks on American troops, knowing that our rules of engagement forbid firing into non-combatants, or people who use women and children as cannon fodder to advance their own political ends.

Nevertheless, the urge to do so seems to be irresistible to the Left.

It’s become a staple of humor to assume a headline in the New York Times or the Washington Post if God were to announce the end of the world:

“End of the World, Women and Children Worst Hit.”

It’s not really too far afield. Try Googling “women and children worst hit” and you will find over 2.4 million hits.

It has been remarkably effective. We have been told to do any number of things “for the children.” Google that phrase and you get a remarkable 688 million hits. Michael McGough describes this phenomenon in his article in the LA Times : The cult of 'for the children'

As Maureen Dowd infamously described it, some people are awarded “absolute moral authority.” Unfortunately for Mo Dowd, she was describing Cindy Sheehan when she was being portrayed as “Mother Sheehan” by the Kossaks and the “Netroots” on the Left – a distraught mother of a slain soldier – who could do or say anything without fear of contradiction because of her status. That, of course was before Ms. Sheehan was exposed as a deranged supporter of Venezuelan “President” Hugo Chavez and a fellow traveller of the group that is camping out in Nancy Pelosi’s front yard. We don’t hear much from the Dowd crowd about “Mother Sheehan’s” “absolute moral authority” since she began attacking the icons of the Left from the vastness of the fever swamps.

[moneyrunner]

The truth is, we don’t blame the twelve year old Graeme Frost. He is like the people on Golgotha of whom Jesus said “Forgive them father for they know not what they do.” The guilty parties are the Frost parents and the Democrats who decided to push this poor little boy into the fray ahead of them, to catch the bullets and hoping to make him a martyr.

[abstracTT]

theres no way america will allow hillary in the oval office.

[Old Sarge]

If She Who Must Not be Named pays them enough, they’ll elect Her Empress.

[khnyny]

theres no way america will allow hillary in the oval office.

That's true. The times have changed.

[tear gas]

The truth is, we don’t blame the twelve year old Graeme Frost.

He's twelve years old now and it's important for him to learn that he must take personal responsibility for his own actions.

He doesn't seem that naive to me.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Nice work.

[moneyrunner]

Thanks. I think this is a subject on which conservatives can stand together and defeat the cowards that hide behind women and children. We can make "Absolute Moral Authority" (tm), or ABA for short, a catch phrase and the subject of derision and humor. There is nothing as devastating to a earnest pissant as to begin laughing at him. Feel free to leave comments at The Virginian And, tear gas, no 12 year old is responsible. He did not volunteer for this. Children are being used here. Words and ideas were put in his mouth by the adults around him. It's just as if his parents were Jihadis and strapped explosives around him. He may believe what his parents tell him and may even sing a song of martyrdom, but he's still a child and he's parroting the ideas of his parents.