Posted on 01/29/2006 2:24:45 AM PST by mal
was at a county fair in New Hampshire last summer and stopped by the National Guard tent. They had those "Support Our Troops" ribbon stickers for sale -- one on a Stars-and-Stripes background, one of them just plain yellow. I've never liked the whole yellow-ribbon thing: It's too victimological, too passive, too enervated. One of the distinctive features of that immediate post-9/11 moment of near national unity was the blessed absence of yellow ribbons. It would have been the wrong symbol for an America full of righteous anger.
But four years on, and there are "Support Our Troops" yellow ribbons a-plenty. "What's the idea behind that?" I asked the National Guardsman manning the display.
"Well," he said, "a lot of people don't support the war and they aren't comfortable with the flag-colored ribbon but they support the troops."
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Ping.
"In 2002 the New York Times published a photograph of Palestinian suicide bombers all dressed up and ready to blow, and captioned it "Hamas activists." Take my advice and try not to be standing too near the Hamas activist when he activates himself."
I only wish Sheehan was as motivated as some of those activists...provided we could ensure that she detonated in an empty field...wait...I think she already did that on her second trip to Crawford.
The only way to convince these folks is to turn the Palestinian territories into Dresden. Then, maybe, they will change their tune.
I have a camo ribbon that says "Land of the Free because of the Brave".
Merciless. CNN kept harping on Hamas' humanitarian activities...the day care centers (for those too young to strap on bombs), health clinics, etc.. Steyn doesn't leave the MSM a fig leaf.
How can you say that about someone who paid the ultimate price?
I believe her son paid the ultimate price...she politicized it for her own personal gain. She has every right to grieve her son, but she also is bound by decency to honor his sacrifice instead of exploiting it to finance her flashback to the sixties.
No, She claims she paid the ultimate price.
I guess "the ultimate price" includes a first class plane ticket to Venezuela. I only hope it is one-way!
Well...she is wrong. She is pretty self centered if she claims that she paid the ultimate price when her son gave his life. Pretty sad if she can't see that. It's as if she can only see her son's death in terms of how it affected her without any regard to the death itself. What about his future? What about his sacrifice?
Yep. That's the money quote.
If you're opposed to the mission, if you don't want to see it through, if you're supporting a position whose success would only demoralize those serving in Iraq and negate their sacrifice, in what sense do you "support the troops"?I know "liberals" ("Americans") who have either openly said to me or at least implied that every time an American soldier dies it is sad for that soldier and his family but in the long run it is a good thing.
As ever, Steyn is on his game. I agree about open enemies and those yellow ribbons. Yellow still says coward to me and it is most definitely what Americans are NOT.
Now I have that silly Tony Orlando and Dawn song in my head - a pox on their heads too.
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