Harlingen, Texas, February 10, 2008: While the Young Lions of our military stand ready to defend, banners protesting them are held high at political rallies. Their own countrymen picket and march against them outside the nation’s Capitol and in front of the White House. In San Francisco and Berkeley, they are maligned by cities that bend to the will of Code Pink. In Toledo a disrespectful mayor stops their training in that city. These are but specks from a mountain of degradation heaped upon the young men and women who wear the uniform of America.
These screams of rage and condemnation against our military personnel come from organized activist members of a major political party, which has some of its own members disavowing the multiple leftist actions. Still, the candidates of the Democrat Party seeking the highest office in the United States are pandering to the socialist and fascist elements of their party by spewing out their own versions of anti-war rhetoric. Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns are camouflaging their words in terms such as “redeployment”, or “mission correction”, but they are really saying they will accept defeat in war and pull our forces out of combat at the earliest possible time, once either of them gains the Oval Office.
This comes about because of the leftist misguided premise that military force is never acceptable and all of the violence is making other nations of the world angry at America. Their distorted logic claims if we would be nicer, just talk to people and understand the enemy point of view…all would be well in the world. To accomplish their objective of being “nice” and more “understanding”, they refuse to understand or be nice about anything when it comes to their conduct toward American military personnel.
It is a sad fact of life, that to be a pacifist or an anti-war, anti-military activist is an easy position to assume in a democracy. Attempting to use the same words or actions in any place outside the Land of Liberty would earn participants extended stays in government operated, barred and locked detention facilities.
Just think about it for a minute. While those misguided people from Code Pink keep Marines from filming television commercials in downtown San Francisco, while the City Council of Berkeley tells recruiters they are not welcome in their town, while the mayor of Toledo bans Marines from conducting a training mission that has been repeatedly held in that city…. these same men and women are in uniform to protect the right of people to denigrate soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in public.
As for being nice and talking to the enemy, how would that be put into practice? Would talking to the former leadership of Iraq have saved those thousands upon thousands of that country’s citizens from mass graves? Would talking to the enemy have saved those Afghan girls and their teachers from being murdered in their schools? Would talking to the enemy have stopped them from placing bombs in mosques filled with worshipers? Would talking to the enemy have kept them from sending mentally handicapped women into a crowded marketplace wearing bombs under their robes?
While the Democrats continue their anti-war and anti-military diatribes across the United States, it can be said that they are not only benefiting themselves…but, the enemy. In October 2006 Brooks Mick, writing for The Conservative Voice said it best. “If one’s actions give aid to the enemy and make it more likely for the enemy to achieve his objectives, then one is pro-enemy, logically.”
Using that analogy, if one is anti-war, anti-military and pro-enemy, is he or she really a person who should be leading our nation?
There is an Orwellian quote that many have heard and it succinctly explains that the way to have a peaceful world is to win conflicts against vicious forces is by using even greater force or violence. “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
It might help some of our Democrat friends if they would take time to read a poem written by Russ Vaughn of the 101st Airborne Division back in 1965, in a place called Vietnam. A few lines from his writings read:
The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men who defend them, as barbaric, obscene
Yet rough men stand ready, hard weapons in hand
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won’t defend
So their own unearned freedom won’t perish, won’t end.