Posted on 09/27/2005 5:07:21 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne
LAST weekend, 100,000 Americans protested in Washington, demanding that we bring our troops home now. It was a fascinating installment in our nation's self-therapy craze.
Set aside the get-Bush-at-any-cost political hustlers, the earnest college students not yet seasoned by reality, the Jew-baiting free-Palestine detachments and the very few who have thought seriously about the war and found it lacking.
You're left with the legions of Cindy Sheehan wannabes — meandering souls who, were they only capable of honesty, would be wearing t-shirts that read, "It's not about the war, it's about me!"
Were we able to psychologically profile the demonstrators, we'd find that most of them have a great deal in common: Disappointing lives, failed relationships and the desperate need for a cause of any kind. If we weren't at war, they'd be marching to save pinworms from drug-company aggression.
Of course, opposing a war involving American troops is the best cause of all. Our country has disappointed the protesters intimately — failing to hand them, free and clear, the lives to which they feel themselves entitled. So forget that our troops are re-enlisting at record rates and willingly risking their lives in a war they believe in. The self-satisfying cry of the demonstrators is "Bring Our Troops Home Now!"
It would be far easier to be sympathetic if a single spokesperson for the media-amplified anti-war movement laid out a convincing model of what would happen in Iraq or Afghanistan if our troops just came home.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The rallying cry of the Left. An pathological need to feel important, significant, permanent. And looking for it in all the wrong places.
100,000 (unhunh...sure) protested and hundreds of millions in the US did not.
Tyranny of the minority needs to stop.
A good editorial, except that photo analysis of the event shows about 10,000, not 100,000.
100K? Who says? I don't think we ought to concede there were that many without proof.
In any case, I saw pics of people there with signs saying they wanted the Iraqi resistance to win. So these same scumbags are saying they care about the lives of American soldiers while the endorse *the people who are killing them!* Unreal. And these "resistance" fighters are the same slime who would kill every American if they could. The stupidity is breathtaking.
All the good looking women are conservatives. :P
Wasn't there also a major book fair on the Mall on Saturday? One that in the past has drawn as many as 70,000? For some reason, I've not seen the MSM make ANY mention of the possibility that at least as many people came down to the Mall to look at books as came to throw a political tantrum...
DU comes to mind immediately....
"100K? Who says?"
A poster at DU this morning said 600,000....talk about delusions of grandeur!
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