Vyan

Tuesday, November 21

KY OP-ed: Hippies still trying to ruin the Country

Yeah, I did a double take and almost covered my 17" monitor with coffee when I saw this blurb on Thinkprogress, following it to Huffington Post and eventually the source, where I discovered that no - this is not a joke. At least not an intentional one. It's a Guest Op-ed by one Jenean McBrearty.

America won't win another war until the 1960s flower children are pushing up petunias.

Radicalized, the flower children morphed into lefty loonies who now masquerade as social progressives. No matter what they rename themselves, however, their agenda hasn't changed.

Won't win a War? Seems to me we did pretty good in Bosnia and Kosova.

Yeah, I know that taking down Wing-nuts is a bit like shooting a 70-year old lawyer in the face at a Quail Ranch. (ie. Not very sporting) Their mental wings have been clipped. They tend to flop around rather than actually make sense. Facts and History are as maleable as Origami, easily redefined into a broach or a swan. But that doesn't mean that it isn't fun to fill their logical loopholes full of sand.

They still want utopia, and it wouldn't be worth mentioning except that their naivetŽ has aged into a persistent denial of reality that may have devastating consequences.

A Persistent Denial of Reality? Oh, more fitting worlds could not have been chosen.

For example, consider their continued belief that America's armed forces are neo-Nazi stormtroopers who delight in burning babies to further the aims of imperialistic corporations.

"Delight?" Who ever said anything about delight? I don't think anybody is about to have how-down in the middle of a free-fire zone.

My Lai was not a fever dream fantasy of the left. It is fact. As were hundreds of other incidents, the documention of which were recently discovered and reported by the LA Times.

The records were declassified in 1994, after 20 years as required by law, and moved to the National Archives in College Park, Md., where they went largely unnoticed.

The Times examined most of the files and obtained copies of about 3,000 pages -- about a third of the total -- before government officials removed them from the public shelves, saying they contained personal information that was exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

In addition to the 320 substantiated incidents, the records contain material related to more than 500 alleged atrocities that Army investigators could not prove or that they discounted.

....

Abuses were not confined to a few rogue units, a Times review of the files found. They were uncovered in every Army division that operated in Vietnam.

I have much more detail on this LA Times Article here, which recounts the murder of a 19-year old naked Vietnamese Girl, the Winter Soldier Conference and then Lt. John Kerry's testimony about it before Congress. No need to rehash all of that now.

But I do want to say that I don't think these events were "fun or delightful" for anyone involved, and that this very suggestion is seriously demented.

Back to Wingerville.

Such nonsense, now treated as legitimate by the left-leaning media, denigrates the patriotic values and sincerity of half the nation.

Half? Or just the 23 Percenters?

It undermines the war effort, insults the dead and the survivors of battle and their families, and supports the aims of the enemy.

I think that the actions of few individual solders in Moumoudiya - where a 15-year old Iraqi girl was stalked, raped and murdered along with her entire family to cover up the crime, is what insults our dead, the survivors of battle and their families - not the people who talk about it and admit that it is true reality. I think the denial of the fact that soldiers acting in our name killed 14 unarmed civilians in Haditha is an insult to all of our soldiers who bravely stand up against these acts at great risk to their careers and lives.

Translated into immigration or national defense policy, it is an invitation to the world to destroy our country.

Anyone else follow her around the bend? I didn't. Pointing out that a small percentage of our soldiers may very well have committed War Crimes invites the world to destroy our country while pretending they haven't -- when just about everyone knows better - does not? Eh?

Yet, this Vietnam-era idŽe fixe about the military, despite 40-plus years of proof to the contrary, is understandable when analyzed in the context of the flower children's religious zealotry.

Religious zealotry? You mean like Devout Athiesm? Radical Agnostics? This next bit is going to get good - I can tell...

To renounce their military fictions would mean facing bigger, more important truths: Marxism doesn't work.

Fascism doesn't work either.

Love is not all you need.

Love isn't all you need, but it's a better start than greed.

Western culture is worth defending because it protects freedom, tolerance and the greatest material good for the greatest number.

Western culture doesn't defend freedom, the Rule of Law Does - and it's goal isn't simply to provide material goods, it is to protect the most vulnerable from being denied access to those materials.

Government can't solve every problem.

Neither can industry or the Military.

The American taxpayer has no obligation to support the rest of the world's exploding population.

No obligation other than their own conscience and moral compass, and the fact that those who can afford to provide support are more likely to succeed than those who can not. The strong do not need to prey upon the weak, they can - if they so choose - use their strength to help them get onto their own feet.

P.S. Gluttony is a Sin - Aint it?

Without the military-industrial complex to blame for humanity's ills, the lefty loonies lose their basis for faith in a socialist utopia. Terrorism is tortuous for them only because it forces them to pursue the political goals that will allow them to redistribute America's wealth by pulling the nation together and relying on the hated military for protection.

Oh, the unfairness of irony.

Oh, the insanity.

Thus, lefty loonies deny that terrorists have declared war on America, while insisting that we can win the war through negotiation. They seem to believe the terrorists will spare them because they are nice.

The truth is that there is no way out of our modern warfare dilemmas.

Is it possible to protect non-combatants, given modern weaponry in total war?

Are people who make weapons innocent citizens of their warring governments, or integral non-uniformed soldiers and legitimate targets?

Must we surrender our country to our enemies because our weapons are too terrible to use?

Whose life is more important: the 12-year-old Iraqi firing an Uzi or a soldier from Kentucky?

Which is more sacred: a mosque hiding a weapons cache or a plane of tourists?

Do we want a military strong enough to protect our homeland? Are we willing to pay the price of survival?

Are we doing a Rumsfeld for any particular reason or just for the fun of it?

These are all questions which have already been answered for the most part within the Laws of War and the rules of engagement. For the most part these are false dichotomies. The ticking time bomb scenario which pretty much never happens in real life.

Speaking of ticking time bomb fantasies - it's not exactly a co-inky-dink that "24" executive producer Joel Surnow is teaming with Fox News to create a Right-Wing Daily Show. “The way I look at it, almost every comedy show or satire show I see uses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,” “24″ co-creator Joel Surnow said. “The other side hasn’t been skewered in a fair and balanced way.

It hasn't? Have you ever like watched The Fox News? Oh wait, you mean they aren't funny? Well, I really don't think that's Joel Surnow's going to change that fact much.

But anyway - I digress.

Yes, Terrorist have declared War on America. Loony lefties like Bill Clinton and Richard Clarke seemed to know that long before Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice and George W. Bush ever had a clue. Not that they weren't told - they were.

It's also true that "terrorist organizations" such as Hamas have become the duly elected government of Palestine, while Hezbollah maintains a great deal of influence in both Lebanon and Iran. Sometimes there are things that can be done in the interests of peace that fall far short of total war, even with enemies this deadly and grave.

This is something we seemed to well understand during the Cold War. Talk, Communication, Discussion and Diplomacy are not Appeasment.

The War among the terrorist of the NRA in Northern Ireland would never have ended without talkin to Jerry Adams.

Oh and where the Hell would we be if Kennedy hadn't talked to Kruschev? (Oh wait, that's a rhetorical question now isn't it?)

Obviously it's possible to talk, to negotiate, and resist the temptation for violence and still be strong. Sometimes doing so is the very definition of strength.

Didn't most of us learn that in grade school?

The world has changed, terrorists aren't just a bunch of random thugs - they run governments now. Certainly we can not afford to just give in and become "weak", but as the world has changed so must our tactics and tools become more nuanced. Meeting thuggery with MORE thuggery is not a solution.

It's crucial that we come to terms with war questions because we will have war with Iran and North Korea. It will come down to their children or ours, their soldiers or ours, their countries or ours.

It's crucial that we come to terms with what it takes to implement genuine diplomacy or else it won't be our children or their's - in the glowing fog of a nuclear winter (if China or Russia get into the mix) it'll be neither!

For aging hippies, it's easier to keep blaming old enemies than to confront new ones, especially the young and ruthless. Hating a military-industrial complex is safer and less tiring. It's less complicated -- and less dangerous.

Sure, and hating hippies is far less dangerous than facing facts.

Abstract institutions neither bleed nor shoot back. Demonstrations, marches and sign-carrying don't accomplish much these days, but they are a lot more fun and allow the fiction of activist moral superiority to persist.

Seems to me that we just managed to change the balance of power in the House and Senate with our "Demonstrations, marches, and sign-carrying" (as well as organizing, fundrasing and strategizing from the Netroots to the Grass Roots). But I digress again.

Their BAWL (Buddha-Allah-Wicca-Lenin) is better than some old Judeo-Christian God.

SPIT-TAKE!!!! What?!?! (Again... pardon me while I whipe this screen off)

In their heart of hearts, lefty loonies do want America to lose in Iraq and every military theater. They want outside enemies to accomplish quickly the demolition of American capitalism, using the violence the lefty loonies are too old, too scared and too well-invested to use.

Really? We want to lose in our heart of hearts? We're too scared to use violence? This is why over 50 veterans - including many from the Iraq conflict - ran for Congress this year as Democrats!

If we hate the Military so much - it seems rather odd that the Military Loves Us ole' Liberals since the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association Rates the Following "Hippies" with an "A".

And the following Conservatives with an "F".

    (Former FBI Director) Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

    Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
    Rep. Lynn Wesmoreland (R-GA)
    Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)

How's that for Irony?

After all, lefty loonies want their social justice and their pensions, too.

And that's bad because... social injustice makes sure all the retirement checks clear?

Luckily, no one lives forever. Luckily, there is Generation Jones to take up their slack. America is too great to go down without a fight.

Yet, please be compassionate toward aging, albeit dangerous, erstwhile flower folks. Understand their pain when communism failed. Understand their desire to enforce perfect harmony. Understand their insistence that we love humanity except those in uniforms.

Just don't vote for them in 2008.

This is going to be the big GOP/Conservo mantra for 2008? Don't Vote for the Hippies!

Yeah, that's right - if you vote for all those aging hippies (y'know like Senators-Elect John Tester and Jim Webb) running for Congress and possibly President in 2008 then those in uniform might not be sent into pointless unjustified wars without a plan, without proper armor and without clean drinking water and without being required by law not to Commit War Crimes or Torture.

Cuz all those loony zany crazy-eyed tree-huggin' berkenstock-wearing tofu-eating hippie liberal Hate-America-First scum - just hate to see our soldiers die and kill for no damn good reason.

But Kentucky Conservatives apparently don't give a rat's ass?

If you're from Kentucky and you'd like to let Jenean McBrearty have a peice of your mind - her email is jeneanmacb@hotmail.com.

Tell her Dkos sent cha.

Vyan

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