They really do hate the troops
Bookworm on May 19 2008 at 9:33 am | Filed under: Democrats, Military
In honor of Tom Harkin’s most recent attack on American troops, John Hawkins, at Right Wing News, has assembled a fine collection of quotations from the Statists, in which they express their deep, abiding feelings for those Americans who put their lives on the line daily to protect us. Some examples:
“Through every Abu aib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform….We pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?…[T]he recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary — oops sorry, volunteer — force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.” — Washington Post blogger, William Arkin
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“Real freedom will come when [U.S.] soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.” — Warren County Community College adjunct English professor, John Daly
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“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.” — Seymour Hersh
You can read the rest here.
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It’s seeing things like this which reminds me that one of the “opportunities” in this Land of Opportunity is is the opportunity to be an idiot and not get severely punished for it. Which brings me to one of the quotes which prompted me to seek a commission in the Corps: “…but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”
Of course, it can be difficult to remember which of those two categories of people Kipling wrote about the idiots cataloged there fall into…
Soldiers are the living proof that anti-liberals’ (anti-liberals would be a much better name for these people) worldview is wrong.
So obviously they hate them. They, after all, have a choice : hate the soldiers, or hate themselves (hate in the meaning that they think them inferior human beings). Obviously soldiers who sacrifice, and risk for what they believe in (even if they only believe a little bit) are morally superior, in the real world. The soldiers are the future, even if only because they *can* be the future, not these liberal fascists, who are not just cowards, but also incompetent of organizing anything at all.
Furthermore, they fully realize that they, as people who cannot be bothered with such “degrading” professions (degrading meaning they require self-sacrifice), so they need an excuse for that.
The truth is they’re cowards. But they are atheists, so “there is no universal moral standard” is their whining cry. So their moral standard is that whatever they want to do is morally right (including abortion, forced sex or even passively comitting murder, like they do in Israel, eventually actively comitting murder will be morally good, as long as they can claim “they started it !”*). So they are cowards, but that is only because the demands of the army conflict with theirs. They “know” their demands are morally good (when they’re obviously despicable judged by any real moral standard), so the demands of the army must be morally wrong.
Fortunately you can see that the world itself will “smite” them. They will kill themselves, it’s just a matter of time. You might say they go against God, as long as you realize what that sentence means. It does not mean that they disagree with a magical bearded guy sitting on a cloud, but that they reject reality itself, and that reality will reject them in return.
The moral judgement of atheists is all about personal prices. Abortion or not ? Abortion means free sex, so we’re pro-abortion. Ignoring islamist threats or reacting to them ? Reacting is costly, so we don’t react. Pro- or anti-semitic ? Well there are more nazis than Jews, and they shoot at us. So we’re anti-semitic.
You don’t have to think deeper than that.
* e.g. look at columbia-venezuela
Seymour Hersh, enemy of humanity.