[.cnI redruM]

Stein brings up an interesting issue. Are moral free-riders like Joel Stein the price we pay for freedom?

[manglor]

No eternal vigilance is the price we pay for freedom. Vigilance against people like joel stein.

[mewzilla]

They are God's gifts to a wayward world.

Amen. And God bless our troops.

...and he says if American soldiers would simply refuse to go fight or would quit and come home, the war would be over.

There's another way to end the war. Congress could cut off the funding for it. Why do the libs never mention this? Maybe because they don't have the guts to try it?

[Lexington Green]

Stein is a parasite.

[jazusamo]

I suppose the Joel Stein's are the price we have to pay to live in the freest country in the world, but we don't have to embrace his beliefs. Just as he is free to voice his opinion, I am free to call him an idiot for saying it.

[WorkingClassFilth]

There are always weevils in the cotton and RATs in the corn crib. A certain level is normal but when the vermin get out of hand you've got to deal with them.

[Cicero]

Joel Stein evidently lacks a conscience to tell him the difference between right and wrong. Or, more likely, he has managed to put his conscience to sleep by ignoring it or violating it for many years. Everyone has a conscience, but it's possible to sink yourself so deeply into evil habits that you can no longer hear it.

It's hard to make someone like that understand the perversity and wickedness of his ways. But perhaps we can make the LA Times understand it. The LA Times is a business operation. It needs subscribers and advertisers. It's not doing very well lately.

[Ostlandr]

Joel Stein should brush up on his law. Specifically, Title 18 of the United States Code:

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115 > § 2381 Prev | Next

§ 2381. Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002381----000-.html

It's about time the Attorney General empaneled a Federal Grand Jury in order to submit information on alleged tratiors like Mr. Stein, and certain others whose names are well known. If the Grand Jury returns a no bill, game over. But if they indict, then he should prosecute.
IMHO Mr. Stein's comments don't warrant the maximum penalty under the statute; the minimum should suffice.

[SuziQ]

Saints in armor is what I call them and what they are. They are God's gifts to a wayward world.

What a wonderful, unique way to view our men and women in uniform!

[VOA]

bump

[TADSLOS]

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of mind that thinks nothing is worth fighting for is far worse"

John Stuart Hill

[maxwellp]

"Saints in Armor" - a very fine definition of our precious military. Thank you, Ben Stein!

[SuziQ]

What an awesome article! I just sent the link to it from the American Spectator to my brother whose son flies Apache Longbows in Afghanistan and some friends whose daughter is an Army Intelligence office with a Stryker brigade in Iraq.

[TASMANIANRED]

Stein cuts to the heart of it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I saw Joel Stein's photo accompanying an article on a blog yesterday. That photo made it a lot easier for me to understand why he thinks and writes like he does. He is definitely a castrati.

[ASOC]

Thanks for the post.
I will NOT send this to my son (right now in Al Anbar)because he see enough cr@p from the MSM.

We send messages regularly pointing up that we fully support what he and his fellow Marines are doing (tho Saddam should be pushing up weeds right now) to try to bring some future hope to those poor souls in Iraq.

And yes, they are angels in armor.

[Checkers]

Joel Stein can be reached at: thejoelstein@yahoo.com < thejoelstein@yahoo.com>

[Purple GOPer]

Ben Stein Ping

Tell me if you want on.

[FreedomPoster]

Excellent read, ping list worthy.