Posted on 08/24/2007 4:07:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
In my column last week I asked whether those that support the global war on terrorism are hypocrites for not joining the military. Several comment posters thought so. They don’t seem to grasp the point that the reason we don’t want all supporters of the war in the military is because we want to win. Their goal is different – the humiliation of America just so they can say “We told you so.” We want the strongest, most intelligent military of the willing in order to ensure victory. As Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC) said, that’s “a real big problem” for Democrats.
Those who don’t support the troops and their mission are showing their complete ignorance when they make charges of hypocrisy. True hypocrisy is the Left’s phony claim to “support the troops” while making demands that weaken the military.
Townhall.com poster “Corbett” wrote:
I don't care if you're 95 years old and confined to a wheelchair. If you believe that the nation's survival is at stake, then you have an ABSOLUTE DUTY to go down to the recruiter's office & try to enlist.
Since logic has never been the Left’s strong point, another poster responded to him:
If you believe national security is at stake and you are unfit to serve in the military you have a PATRIOTIC duty to stay out of the way of those who are and try to help some other way, like offering your support, morally, substantantively, and/or monetarily… Liberals like corbett don't really want 90-year-old invalids going to the recruiting office just to be rejected. They want 90-year-old invalids feeling guilty about having an independent opinion. They want to bully anyone and everyone they can (apparently including aging invalids) because they can't win an honest argument.
This poster calls himself “wiseone.” Indeed! Thankfully, military service is not compulsory because of guilt or fear of being called a hypocrite by treasonous liberals.
Last week I also received emails from parents of servicemen and women who agreed that their son or daughter deserved more than the treatment they get from the anti-military Left. Many on the Left, including some notable Senators, have implied that those who serve are intellectually or morally inferior. They also perpetuate the myth that the military is a “last resort” for the poor. This week Washington state’s Daily Herald columnist Froma Harrop wrote, “We know that the armed forces are all-volunteer (‘the good news,’ Mitt said) and that few children of the rich have much to do with it.”
Like many liberals, Harrop didn’t bother to look up any statistics, but just made a broad statement that sheds light on her opinion of the military rather than the truth. A study of military enlistment from 2003-2005 found that recruits from the poorest neighborhoods have been on the decline. The study summarized, “[T]he additional years of recruit data (2004–2005) support the previous finding that U.S. military recruits are more similar than dissimilar to the American youth population. The slight differences are that wartime U.S. military enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on average than their civilian peers.”
Rather than “support the troops,” the Left continues to define them as poor and uneducated with no extraordinary skills. More so than those who insult them, we know the value of the lives that are lost during times of war. For that reason, every person serving deserves to fight along side his equal. It’s essential to our victory.
As a supporter of the military and daughter of two parents who served more than 35 years combined, I am reminded of one remarkable solder that Tony Snow spoke about at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference:
[The soldier] had no use for the anti-war movement. He pointed out that young people, young men were serving that had never set foot on a college campus, quote, “have done more to uphold the universal legitimacy of representative government and human rights than folks with their placards. Why? Because they stood in the line of fire between fanatics and those who tried to vote.”
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When he got [to Iraq] he found things that he never would have imagined. He found fulfillment. He found support. He found trust and he found friendship. As a matter of fact, he quoted on his [MySpace] page one local who defined the difference between a terrorist and an American. He said, “They get paid to take life, to murder and you get paid to save life.” And he said that compliment meant more to him “than all the naysayers and makeshift humanists that monopolize our interpretation of this war.”
You want to find the kind of people we have in Iraq? This is it.
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And what is going on in Iraq right now is our men and women are seeing folks there who have been subjected to eons of tyranny and suddenly the light’s going off and they’re beginning to see what freedom might mean and they’re beginning to see that the decency and honor and goodness of the American people is something they want to emulate. Yeah, that happens!
As a matter of fact, in an email a little more than a month ago, our author said, “All is well. More war stories than I can fit in this email. Having the time of my life!” Exclamation point! And on the following day, Mark Daily was killed by an IED. That’s what we lose. But in that short time you had someone who had demonstrated through his deeds and his words and his character what it means to be an American.
Why don’t limosine liberals volunteer for higher taxes?
Why don’t the promoters of socialized medicine go to Cuba or England when they get sick?
The left is all about hypocrisy. They are the “do as I say, not as I do” party. Honestly I don’t know how they can look at themselves in the mirror or sleep with themselves at night.
Huh? Why will supporters of the war cause the military to lose?
If you want the definition of a hypocrite, all you have to do is point at any liberal
I served in the military during Reagan’s War on Terror, and if needed, I would be happy to go again. So far, it looks as though the younger guys are doing a fine job, and I’ll continue to do my part by paying the necessary taxes to supply them with ammo and armor, and by doing my best to remind our politicians that surrender is only an option when you’re losing.
Code Pink always uses the: “Why don’t you enlist crap?”. Then when you tell they you did your time in the military they say ignore what you just said.
Yesterday I swore in my son as the newest Ensign in the US Navy.
The liberals are too lazy and selfish to do anything for any one else. They only think of themselves.
Indeed. I, too, served in the ‘70s and then for several years in the reserves after that. Would I go again if I could? Certainly, but health issues pretty much make that impossible, as I was told when I tried to go back on active duty during Gulf I.
It would seem that those 18-24 year olds who use that 'why don't you enlist' are trying to avoid their responsiblity.
Congratulations to you and your son.
We thank him for his service and stand behind him with our full support.
Just remember that when the “war on terror” becomes the war on Islam, we old folks at home will be needed to hang all the local Muzzies, supporters, Liberals, etc.
SOMEBODY has to carry the ropes, pitchforks, torches and hot pitch. We WILL be needed.
Soon.
That is the thought that allows me to assuage my conscience of the shame I feel at having young people fight my battles for me.
I enlisted in 2006 because I wanted to help my country at war.
But, on a particular liberal site I have been at since 1999, they still call me a hypocrite (and worse) since I did not join the infantry or a combat MOS.
“Those who do not do battle for their country do not know with what ease they accept their citizenship in America.”
Dean Brelis
And even if you had, they would still be calling you a hypocrite because you haven't been killed yet.
There's no way to win with these kind of people, becasue they aren't actually arguing from logic.
If GWB feels this is the greatest threat of our time, why did not his administration seek an actual declaration of war, seek national mobilization as during WW2, so that the enemy could be brutally crushed and defeated?
I just finised reading another article about how many books liberals read, comapred to Conservatives. No wonder they don't enlist in the military, they have books to read.
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