Posted on 05/26/2006 3:23:30 PM PDT by RWR8189
Now if they view moderate centrists like McCain etc with such hostility, how much more hostile are they towards really very conservative people like Mark Steyn or Pauline Hanson?
Kerrey should resign.
Although I am not a vet, I share your attitude. All those who served are heroes in my book. Yes, some to a greater degree than others, and some are heroes despite their subsequent behavior and the fact that I disagree with their current political positions. But they are heroes.
Including, sir, you. Thank you for your service.
He graduated 894 out of 899. Unlike his father and grandfather, who were admirals, he made it to captain only. Clearly, Navy didn't think much of him and neither should we.
He's a fair game.
Yes they are. I think perhaps we have given them too much credit for maturity just because they are more physically developed at that age than my generation of teens (1950s) was. But we forget that their relatively few real life experiences have not given them a proper perspective of this complicated and often confused world scene in which we all now must live.
A pampered teenage child, which describes most American teens of upscale families, who has never known any hardship more distressing than a dent in his or her Bimmer's fender can't properly appreciate the sacrifices our servicemen and women have made over the years and still make today in order for them to live a privileged and carefree life in a free and prosperous nation.
Now if they view moderate centrists like McCain etc with such hostility, how much more hostile are they towards really very conservative people like Mark Steyn or Pauline Hanson?
It's no longer a matter of degrees, on either side.
Of course, I would have gone about it completely differently. Simply put, John McCain WAS a war hero, a man who suffered greatly under the gentle ministrations of the people the leftists of the "antiwar" movement cheered on.
However, I refuse to give McCain a pass for the things he's done over the last 30 plus years. Otherwise, we should have done the same for Kerry, who I believe also served in Viet Nam.
Seriously, just because someone serves with honor, even with distinction, doesn't keep them from being scumbags in civilian life.
I would have highlighted his membership in that exclusive club, "The Keating Five," as well as described the McCain/Feingold CFR as the abomination that it is.
Heck, if we really want to give a pass to anyone who serves with honor, or are decorated combat veterans, maybe we should have said, "well, sure, blowing up that federal building in OKC, and killing all those people was a bad thing, but still, Timothy Mcveigh did receive the Bronze Star, so maybe we should give him a pass...
Mark
Actually, IIRC, when the NVA learned who they had (and admiral's son), they offered to let him go, and he refused. I believe that's one of the "facts" that many leave out, but I could be wrong about it. There are a lot of misleading "histories" of Viet Nam, and I was only 10 years old when we pulled out.
Mark
See Duke Cunningham...
It is true. I remember an anti-Communist talkshow host in Hong Kong who once described US liberals as "hypocrites, naive, and pompous" and dared to claim if one day the US falls it will be the American libs' faults.
And note he is not an American: a HK Chinese, he has never had any ties with the US: he was a Warwick University graduate with diploma from LSE (London School of Economics - an institution that has produced plenty of Afro-Marxists), and worked as a BBC radio station host for some time.
I read the whole thing and you still say he sucked as a pilot as if that
should exclude him from being a hero. You didn't say bailing out.
So please enlighten me how John McCain ranks up there with a Murphy, a Patton or a Washington as a HERO? (this should be good)
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