Also have him point his buddies to:
I am getting the book as soon as I can.
Nearly every military person I have spoken to who has served over there, including eight young Marines who had each done two tours and an 82nd Airborne Medic who served in Iraq all said the same thing:
They could hardly believe it when they came home and saw how the war is being presented by the media. To a man, they view the media and liberals as entities that are deliberately trying to discredit and drag down what is happening.
They were spreading defeatism since before we entered Afghanistan, saying we could never navigate that mountainous landscape, millions would starve there from our efforts, etc. They said we couldn’t beat the Taliban, too much local support, etc. Then we could never beat Saddam's army, our supply line was stretched too thin to Baghdad (remember the panels of retired generals), the Republican Guard would chew us up in Baghdad, we would never get elections, we would never get a constitution there, etc., etc. They have been cheerleading against us all along, all dour, pompous, arrogant, and shameless after being consistently wrong every step of the way.
In the case of bringing peace to Iraq, our demonstrable resolve is one of our most important weapons. With global media and the nature of this conflict, it is a direct assault on the mission to be campaigning against our cause with this undeserved pessimism. It is one and same with giving hope and encouragement to the enemy. Even the endless story of Bush's low ratings, always attributed solely and specifically to his determination in Iraq, is to tell the enemy that the man leading the fight against them has no support, and that they should hold out at least until 2009 when surely someone of less resolve and focus will be elected, maybe even someone who will immediately withdraw. (If this happens, heaven help us.) I blame the old media and the leaders of the Democratic Party for the ongoing deaths and injuries of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis. And this global war with radical Islam will turn against us if don't correct this course very soon. I know... I'm not alone here.
Patterson asks in the book, “What country sends its men and women to war through national decree knowing some will give their all in sacrifice —- yet withers in resolve at the first signs of difficulty and abandons the will to fight? . . .
“What country’s duly elected politicians, often from both sides of the aisle, shamelessly exploit a conflict they voted to authorize and, in doing so, barter the sacrifice of American soldiers for political capital?”
With more votes on Iraq funding coming, it will soon be clear whether those politicians, and others whom Patterson calls “the enemy within,” will further isolate the military —- and in the process lose a war.”
Enough said!
I have no problem referring to the liberal media elitists and the (lack of) leadership in our government as traitors for all their blustering about our losing this war and other far worse comments over the last five years. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quack likes a duck, then . . . these liberals are traitors.