Student pacifists should wake up

Omaha World-Herald ^ | 9/23/01 | HOWARD W. ANDERSEN

[Southack]

Funny how these students always seem to be spending more time protesting America's right to respond to terror attacks than they do against the terrorist attacks themselves.

Sorta makes ya wonder just where their loyalty resides...

[alloysteel]

"Whosoever is not with us, has raised his hand against us...."

Pacificism clearly has no place in this discussion. To promote pacificism is to give aid and comfort to the enemy at our gates, and who has already breached our first defenses.

[onyx]

Might I assume that the parents of many of these youngsters are reliving the 60's vicariously through their offspring?

[Balding_Eagle]

Pacifism Begets Violence.

[gcruse]

Might I assume that the parents of many of these
youngsters are reliving the 60's vicariously through their offspring?

Maybe, but some wisdom accrues over the years.  One
need not stay a hippie forever.  More likely, the Marxist
professors ensconced in academia are just doing their
usual poisoning of the student mind.  Parents are the
last to know.

[Don Myers]

"Wake up, campus nerds."

They are awake. Their position is they don't want to go to war. That was the position of the college kids while I was in Vietnam. They don't want to serve.

[RightWhale]

Sorta makes ya wonder just where their loyalty resides...

Such pacifism does nothing but encourage the enemy to continue their attack. It is viewed as proof of weakness, softness. Japan thought that America didn't have the belly for war, so they attacked. Thanks to a popular university pacifism movement Hitler thought that England didn't have the belly for war, so he attacked. If the students don't want to fight, they will be viewed by the enemy as willing to surrender, as in Vietnam.

[RobbyS]

They don't want to serve. Their country, that is. The "ME Generation"lives on.

[riley1992]

They are awake. Their position is they don't want to go to war. That was the position of the college kids while I was in Vietnam. They don't want to serve.

That was a whole different ballgame.

[progunner]

I for one openly state that you are quite CORRECT</FONT COLOR="maroon">. I can relate this to the 60's when, I'm A Viet Nam veteran,, shot and stabbed,,, I returned to the states and got called a baby killer by my cowardly EX friends. Talk about a kick in my a$$. They were cowards then and the ones that are still living are still damn cowards.

It's real simple,,,, when someone is about to shoot you, you try to shoot first. Unfortunatly it doesn't always happen that way as was proved on 9/11/01. Which leaves the task of eradicating the killer to some damn body</FONT COLOR="maroon">. Now,,, if one of these "campus nerds" see's one of his/her own take a bullet, I often wonder if he/she would take up arms. Something tells me no.

[headsonpikes]

America's leftists have found their totalitarian soul-brothers in these Islamic Terrorist swine.

Smoke 'em out!

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #11 Just more hugging and moaning followed by more Bush-bashing and Clinton-nostaligia

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #11 Just more hugging and moaning followed by more Bush-bashing and Clinton-nostaligia

[onyx]

I'm getting the same pit in my stomache as I had during the Vietnam war worring about the children of VVets doing the fighting now, whilst the spoiled offspring of the war protestors are doing their anti-American things, just like their parents did 37 years ago.

[Don Myers]

"That was a whole different ballgame."

Perception is everything.

[SCHROLL]

They are loyal only unto themselves. Here's and idea, take them to Ground Zero, then give them a slicker, a pair of boots, and a shovel. Make them go through the search and rescue effort, then have them go with the recovered bodies to be ID'd. Once that's been done have them go to the families of the dead and explain to them why we shouldn't do anything about it. Maybe then the light might go on in that pea brain of theirs.

[Dan Day]

Here's and idea, take them to Ground Zero, then give them a slicker, a pair of boots, and a shovel. Make them go through the search and rescue effort, then have them go with the recovered bodies to be ID'd. Once that's been done have them go to the families of the dead and explain to them why we shouldn't do anything about it. Maybe then the light might go on in that pea brain of theirs.

That has been my suggestion for the pacifists of all stripes all along.

[riley1992]

Yes, and the fact that they would perceive a direct attack on our own soil against our own citizens the same as the kids did with Vietnam is not very reassuring, is it? That is a horse of an entirely different color, Don.

[Don Myers]

"That is a horse of an entirely different color, Don."

Well, for the most part, college kids are pretty materialistic and they don't go in for intangible things like patriotism. They are too busy "having fun" on momma and daddy's dime.