Posted on 06/12/2006 9:25:54 PM PDT by Reagan Man
Every six months or so, the liberal media search for any story that casts our soldiers in a bad light. Abu Ghraib was portrayed as indicative of almost the entire U.S. Army when, in fact, it consisted of less than 1/1000 %. Besides which, in the scheme of possible war atrocities, it doesn't even rank. It was more uncouth behavior than atrocity.
As soon as a scenario is found where our soldiers defended themselves from enemy fire, road bombs or check-point crashing cars, the media indict our boys, without first considering the circumstances which necessitated the shooting response. Guilty! Guilty until proven innocent.
It is quite obvious the media have a preconceived attitude toward our men and women in uniform and look for events to affirm their view. It is equally obvious that the media do not wait to issue its guilty judgement, even before the facts come in. For in the media's mind, the guilty outcome is a foregone conclusion given the liberal media's notion of who our soldiers really are. They want to believe the worst.
In the mind of most of today's smug liberals, our soldiers are rednecks -- and rednecks, when let loose and not under control of "civilized" liberals, do what comes natural to rednecks -- they act rednecky. Liberals feel that way since, in their parochial view, who would enlist and volunteer unless one is poor, has no chance for upward mobility, and has a tendecy and lust for violence?
They believe this since most have no friends or family in the military. These elitists perceive the soldier and the military as below their class. Perhaps they heard of a grandfather who served back in the days when there was a draft, but not today.
Why do they so despise our military? Why do they never come to its defense? Why do they never understand the frightful plight of the soldier who, when fired upon by the enemy, has no recourse but to fire back if he wishes to stay alive? Why does the liberal not understand what he has seen countless times, namely, that the Jihadist enemy positions women and children in his front while shooting at our soldiers?
It is because the liberal moralizer deep down knows that he does not have the physical courage and might of the soldier. Compared to the soldier, he is a coward and weakling. His strength lies only in bringing law suits and sounding morally superior to the rest of us.
The liberal moralizer needs to tear down the U.S. soldier as a way of guaranteeing that the soldier is never elevated to a more honored level in American life than is he, the liberal moralizer. Tear down the soldier and you destroy the honor we feel toward that soldier. Find anything to show you are better than the soldier so that you and your smug liberal friends can celebrate your superiority. Liberal media guys cannot abide that America has heroes who are not them.
For the media, the heroes are Woodward and Bernstein or Washington Post and New York Times reporters who splash across the world U.S. national security secrets. They admire not those who defend but who tear down. Many entered the business for precisely that reason: to indict our institutions and ways.
By and large, certain very liberal cosmopolitan men are jealous of what the soldier can do, and have a desire, a need, to destroy the object of their envy.
By pressuring our government not to allow our soldiers engaged in urban battles to respond quickly, liberals -- especially the media -- are heightening the possibility that our young men will be killed. Their school yard "legalities" are handcuffing our soldiers and are, I'm convinced, precipitating American deaths and casualties. Our soldiers are now hesitating to defend themselves out of fear of being brought up on charges at the hands of the ACLU.
Our home-grown leftists must know how their 24/7 finger pointing and accusations are endangering the lives of our boys. Perhaps that is why they do it, not to mention a desire to humiliate our military and cause the defeat of the U.S. They have become accessories to and instruments for death.
If we in the West decide that our soldiers can never fire back at the enemy when women and children are present, then we have handed the enemy a sure-fire method for our defeat. We might as well roll up the streets of the West, now, since the enemy can move forward with immunity house-by-house, building-by-building, in every urban setting in which they choose to fight, including London and New York.
Thank God our safety is in the hands of these guys from the Midwest and South and not those snivelly effeminates from Brown, Brandeis, Columbia and NYU. If it were so, we'd by now all be prayer rugs.
We have sought no enslavement of the conquered, no confiscation of their property, nor abused their people.
We have elected leaders who we feel will act in the best interests of the US and of freedom loving people throughout the world. Americans will pay any price to defend our freedom, make no mistake about that.
Any enemies of the USA should try to comprehend where they would be today without the stability, humility, and prosperity the US has delivered to the world.
And we don't even really expect to be thanked.
Sincerely,
A proud American.
It is equally obvious that the media do not wait to issue its guilty judgement, even before the facts come in.
It's lazy journalism. Passing judgement before all the facts are in is much easier than investigating for truth.
Reporter's approval ratings should regularly. Someday they might ask themselves why. I'll be dead by then but someday it might happen
I'm not inferring, I am saying right out that the greenest recruit is superior to the girly men that make up the majority of MSM, they know it and hate them for it. Since you phrased your question as you did let me just say then that micro is the operative word -:)
As I said I think it is a mix. Some as you say very politically driven, some will not read anything other then what is spoon fed them and other are plans old stupid. I don’t know what the percentages of each are though.
But I would guess most are in the category of not willing to read anything out side their faith. This type of liberal is the most religious people on the planet.
There are many reasons wny the Left cannot fight the War - or any war, really, but I think that its most basic problem is that they refuse to endorse, promote, or hold in any kind of regard the kinds of skills and professions required to fight the war. This relates back to the fact that they just don't "do" that kind of stuff. From mechanical engineering to rifle marksmanship, from program management to rocket science, they just don't do it, any of it. Their idea of a brutally effective weapon is a can of mace in a purse. Their concept of effective strategy is a sharp crack during a faculty lounge discussion. Their idea of a grevious war wound is paper cut - or perhaps spilling McDonald's coffee in your lap. -- RWE, 5:17 AM, The Belmont Club
Why do they so despise our military? Why do they never come to its defense? Why do they never understand the frightful plight of the soldier who, when fired upon by the enemy, has no recourse but to fire back if he wishes to stay alive? Why does the liberal not understand what he has seen countless times, namely, that the Jihadist enemy positions women and children in his front while shooting at our soldiers?
It is because the liberal moralizer deep down knows that he does not have the physical courage and might of the soldier. Compared to the soldier, he is a coward and weakling. His strength lies only in bringing law suits and sounding morally superior to the rest of us.
The leftists are incensed because war was for evermore abolished in the 70's when they overthrew the nations and brought the defeat in Vietnam. They hate the fact they have lost. Cindy Shaeen hates her son because he spit in her pacifist face and joined the military. She can't get over the betrayal.
War is thought to be out of style and the fact it is still around is vexing.
The only way to end the pacifist rant is to grind them into the ground . They must be opposed at every oppurtunity. Free Republic is a very good way to oppose the misguided domestic enemies of our Republic.
Because, deep-down in their core, these liberal wimps know they didn't do their duty and they hate those that do or did.
Well said. And besides they are mostly communist symphasizers whether they care to admit it or not.
They are communist true believers through and through.
IBTZ!!!
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All that Soros money obligates them to love Saddam.
And I want credit for the Troll
Yee Haw!!
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