"Gotta say, I'm a liberal who sometimes posts at Free Republic, and I'm shocked at the unanimity with which you all don't get this cartoon. The troops are being done wrong by their civilian leaders--as the cartoon suggests--just like in Vietnam. If you're not holding those civilian leaders to account, how can you respect the troops?"
And as a former liberal who used to hang with the friends of Joan Baez and go to Blank Panther meetings, I gotta say if you haven't grown up yet and rejected the liberal talking points (treason du jour) you must be a bit slow of wit.
What all the burnt out hippies from Sheehan to Kerry to you want to do is rekindle the defeat of the Vietnam war with your cut and run yellow bellied whining. Been there, done that, not going to do it again. You glory in defeat, because only in defeat do you prosper politically. So you must drag down the president and the troops at every juncture, no cartoon or cynical barb too small, because you have a vested interest in failure. Pretty sad commentary on your ideology, no?
And you know, I've heard all the liberal and socialist bunk for 35 years now, I've even studied it in detail. All talk, no action, theory without substance. In Kerry's mold, you issue calls for diplomacy, or "better" policy, or a grander scheme, but you guys never actually want to get your fingers dirty by doing something useful in the real world (like going to war). In your view, the world is run by diplomats having champagne rather than through the blood and sweat of decisive action executed by men of honor.
Sure, let's cut from Iraq. The result will be a civil war, the butchering of 1,000,000 people, a return of the Middle East to the dark ages, the demise of Israel. You liberals are as stupid as bricks, ludicrous, ridiculous creatures of the past. Go worship Fidel or Stalin or Mao, or Jane Fonda like you used too and remind me just how utterly useless you are. (and remember, I was there during the protests of Vietnam and I know your crap by heart, you ain't fooling nobody no more).
Excellent post.
2, 4, 6, 8, organize and smash the state megadittoes.