Mudville Gazette has a couple of posts that will give you a glimpse of some real life heroes. It speaks of the deep feelings of patriotism and of the right of our cause. He uses a quote from Theodore Roosevelt which seems appropriate:
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Cindy Sheehan the left (progressives), and the "weak little candy asses" be damned. There are people in this country who get it and they are serving in droves despite the hardship, despite the danger and in spite of the lefties. Proud to be an American!
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from Opinion Journal
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2 Timothy 4: 5-7
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Family of Mesa soldier refuses to 'wallow in self-pity'
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By JAMES TARANTO
Fighting
the Last War
"In a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader said the
United States 'ran and left their agents' in Vietnam and the jihadists must
have a plan ready to fill the void if the Americans suddenly leave Iraq,"
the Associated Press reports from Washington:
"Things may develop faster than we imagine," Ayman al-Zawahri wrote in a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam--and how they ran and left their agents--is noteworthy. . . . We must be ready starting now." . . .
"More than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media," he wrote.
The translation of the letter, in PDF, is here.
Is Iraq another Vietnam? Zarqawi thinks so, as do "antiwar" politicians here in America and many in the media. And in this respect, at least, Iraq does resemble Vietnam: America's enemies and domestic opponents of the war, acting in sync if not in concert, are attempting to defeat the war effort "in the battlefield of the media."
But there the similarity ends. For one thing, the media are nowhere near as monolithic, or as powerful, as they were during the Vietnam era. Arguably the war in Vietnam was lost when Walter Cronkite declared as much after the Tet Offensive. Cronkite's lapse into advocacy was, as Newsweek's Howard Fineman argued in January, the beginning of the end of "the notion of a neutral, non-partisan mainstream press." Cronkite and his successors squandered the public trust they had earned, with the result that no journalist today--no, not even your humble columnist!--comes anywhere close to wearing the mantle of "most trusted man in America."
For another, there is no serious antiwar movement today. Antiwar protests in 2005 consist of the same crackpot rent-a-mobs who long before 9/11 were disrupting meetings of groups like the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. Cindy Sheehan is a case in point: Sold by the media as a grieving Everymom, she turned out to be an America-hating lunatic. Thus, as we noted Monday, there is no move among American politicians, outside the Angry Left fringe, to withdraw from Iraq or defund the effort there.
But what about those public opinion polls that show a majority of Americans think liberating Iraq was "a mistake"? The same polls show a majority opposing a precipitous pullout. This seems to be a contradiction, but it really isn't. The idea that Iraq was a "mistake" reflects anxiety about another Vietnam-like defeat; the opposition to withdrawal reflects a determination not to let that happen.
In short, those who hope for another Vietnam appear to have succeeded, for the moment, in persuading most Americans to fear another Vietnam. But that is a far cry from persuading them to accept another Vietnam.
Now that the president has (finally) conceded that (most of) our enemies in the Middle East are actually fanatical Muslims, he should realize that his initial intuition about the war on terrorism — that we are fighting tyrannical regimes and their murderous footsoldiers — was correct. And this, in turn, should encourage him to unleash our greatest weapon: the people who live there.
The
tyrannical Islamofascists obviously despise and dread their people;
otherwise they wouldn’t be constantly seeking new ways to make sure
there is no independent thought and certainly no independent action.
All those madrasas, for example, are extended experiments in what used
to be called "rote learning." The children sit around and memorize the
Koran and the sayings of the prophet, blessings be upon him. But,
unlike the schools in the civilized world, nobody ever asks anybody
else what he thinks about anything.
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From the "Can you be more condescending and elitist files". Considering this came from a man who worked for the paragon of virtue at CBS, I think we can safely ignore him.
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My friends Amy and Burt Robinson lost their son in
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