I am constantly amazed by people like Cindy Sheehan. It is my observation that most of the Sheehanesque type of thinking comes out of California, but I'm sure it exists and thrives elsewhere. Why would anyone in their right mind expect a person enlisted in the military to be exempt from harms way. Ms. Sheehan is certainly not the first and absolutely won't be the last parent to lose a child to involvement in military conflict. This is a voluntary military. Nobody forced her son into active service and it is my guess that if there is any connection between the afterlife and the here and now, this boy is being embarrassed by the rantings of his deranged mother. Furthermore she is being played by the lunatic left. When all is said and done she will have made a fool of herself (for our amusement as brought to us by mainstream news) ,disgraced the memory of her son and accomplished absolutely nothing. Why would anyone sign up for this. Besides, from what source does Ms. Sheehan conclude that our actions in the middle east are illegal? This must be hyperbole, right. No offense, but this woman is like a housewife or something. An honorable enough role, but where did her credibility as a spokesperson emmanate from. Because her son lost his life while an active member of the armed forces, she has now become some kind of spokesperson for the left! I believe that Chris Matthews was even encouraging her to run for office. I don't know if anybody is tracking with me on this, but it all seems pretty desparate, almost surreal.
Friends and colleagues much smarter than me, continually tell me that the beauty of America is that everyone, freaks and lunatics included, get to have their say. I'm not so sure this is a good thing, but aside from being horribly inefficient, I guess it doesn't harm anything. The real problem to me is that Cindy Sheehan and others of her ilk raised on Dr. Spock, Romper Room and the dream state based romantic philosophy of the new left all get to gum up the workings of a phenomenally powerful and successful country such as the United States. I sometimes wonder how far ahead we would be if we didn't have to keep slowing down for these annoying leftist type people. This country never would have gotten started if it were left to the devices and cowardice of Ms. Sheehan, Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy and the like. I watched it in my own time during Viet Nam and found myself ashamed to be an American in uniform. Thank God for the military and thank God the Cindy Sheehans of this country don't have much influence on it. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in a Few Good Men ' You want that freedom to do whatever the heck it is that pleases you, but then you question the manner in which that freedom is provided'. Like it or not there are some very bad people in the world. There always were and there always will be. I have no doubt that Ms. Sheehan and her supporters would have been out there in 1940/1941 yelling that the Nazis were not our problem and that we had no business in Europe. Pearl Harbor was fair game and the Japanese were acting responsibly in retaliation for trade barriers created by the US and its allies. In oter words we got we we deserved. I'm very sorry for her loss. I celebrate her son and his resolve. I thank God for my friends and colleagues, particularly the military veterans of WWII (my dad included), Korea, Nam, as well as the first and second Iraqi conflicts who understand that sometimes preserving the strength of this country requires tough measures. These brave souls in uniform have continued to serve as the beam of light that makes America a country to be respected and feared throughout the world, a place where scum like Osama Bin Laden think twice before blowing innocent people into the next world. A place where everyone is welcome, free and secure. And as my friends and colleagues continue to tell me this includes making room for the Cindy Sheehans, Jane Fondas, Barbara Boxers, Nancy Peloisis, Barbara Striesands, and all the other clueless people with a bully pulpit provided by Ms. Sheehan's son and thousands like him. I know it is a worn out retort... but if Cindy and friends don't like it here then they should get on a plane and move to Iraq or similar environ. Maybe after a few months living under the brutal reality of those countries Ms. Cindy and her friends will have a better appreciation for what her son died for. In those countries the good people impacted by the government's actions don't get to camp out in front of their president's residence. They just get to disappear. There is a lone voice on the oter side of the road in Crawford, the voice of an Iraqi woman pleading that we stay to give her country a chance to live the dream like in America. Nobody in the media is much interested in her plea or her message. It doesn't conform with the media's self righteous, self servicing agenda.
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