"Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
I gleaned this quote from an article yesterday by Peter D. Feaver in the Boston Globe entitled MoveOn's McCarthy moment.
The article draws a strong comaprison with the immature antics of MoveOn and the near terminally ill NYT this week. (Read Thomas Lifson The Decline and Fall of the New York Times) The full page ad insults our commmader in Iraq with no merit.
Let us be clear. It is legitimate to grill Petraeus on his testimony and to ask him tough questions about the strategy he has been pursuing. It is legitimate to disagree with him, or to conclude that an alternative course of action has a better chance of advancing US interests in the region. Healthy civil-military relations do not depend on accepting uncritically anything a senior military officer says. Quite the opposite, they depend on a full and frank exchange of views.
It is not legitimate, however, and it is exceedingly corrosive of healthy civil-military relations to question the general's patriotism when his views differ from yours and are inconvenient for one's political agenda.
This is a defining moment for the antiwar faction. They can continue on the path on to which they have veered, repeating some of the worst mistakes in American history. Or they can make a clean break with the past, police their own ranks, and promote a healthy, critical, public debate about the best way forward in Iraq.
You hear many members of the left and Democratic claim to support the troops. Then they must purge their ranks. But they won't. Like the jello spined leaders of Europe who condemn Israel and pray they bomb Iran or Syria back to the stone ages, they would never soil there own hands.
I do have to apologize for comparing Israel and MoveOn. The heroic people of Israel understand people want them dead, while MoveOn has already fallen to folly of ignoring history with its repetitive karma. Six years since 9/11, we are fighting the enemy responsible for that day (not the US by the way and I refuse to expound on that) in Iraq.
They do not understand Clinton's early exit of Somalia, his failure to effectivly avenge teh U.S.S. Cole or the other attacks led to 9/11. The esteemed Gen. Petraeus deserves an aplogy from the NYT. 
4 comments:
That's a great cartoon. I'm stealing it!
The "Betray Us" ad is just the latest, most visible sign of Democrat hatred and distrust of the military.
That feeling goes back to Vietnam and the draft which makes Democrat insistence on reinstating the draft even more absurd.
And during the Clinton years the anti-military feeling was validated by the goofball in chief.
I remember two stories from 1993. First, as jets were rehearsing a flyover for the Clinton Inaugural, a staffer complained about the military horning in on the party. Another staffer corrected him and said "those are OUR jets now."
And a General arrived at the White House for a meeting and said "good morning" to a female staffer. She stuck her nose in the air and sniffed "I don't speak to military."
Moveon is just putting a visible face on the military haters who have also been inspired to attack our troops, in one case on the 4th of July an anti-war "peace" activist SHOT one of our soldiers who had recently returned.
I'm doing a post on this Thursday.
they are the most relentless bunch of cockroaches the world has ever seen!
Great cartoons!!!
great stories, not you ever hear those in the MSM.
If I reacall, MoveOn was created in retaliation to Congress investigating Clinton for the right reasons. Now they have become the brownshirts of the Democratic party.
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