I’ve been posting on dkos for several months now and as most of you know I post about the United States military and soldiers. On many, many of my posts I keep getting excuse the expression, a bunch of “whack jobs” that must be from some other country or planet. Here’s why I’m saying this.
Our soldiers, American soldiers, are in Iraq and Afghanistan because, as I have said in other post, the Commander in Chief, your president, sent them there. Yes I said your president because he came to power in your system. These soldiers are not 130,000+++ criminals. They are soldiers, your soldiers, your neighbors, your neighbors son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandson, granddaughter, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, mother, and father. They are NOT criminals!!!! Do you get it?
Now some of you come on and post comments to my posts that accuse these young men and women and talk about how they should disobey orders and revolt and every other such ridiculous act you can dream up. Well let me tell you something. You better bend down and kiss the ground they walk on or continue on around and kiss you ass good bye because I have news for you. If those young men and women didn’t obey their orders this country would be just like any other third world second rate dictatorship. What sets this nation apart from all the others is our system of government and the controls on our military. If you want that changed then either get involved and change your government politically or pick up a gun and call me when you finish the coup.
These young men and women are just like you and me. The difference is they happen to be serving their country. The operative word here is serving by the way and that would be something you cerebral lounge chair whack jobs don’t want to do or don’t have the kahoonas to do. They must obey the laws of the nation just like you and me plus the laws of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the Geneva Conventions and every treaty this nation has signed. What is it that you want; for them to revolt and have a little coup. Well it isn’t going to happen because they are better than that.
One last thing on this short pissey post. As I said in yesterdays post and this post, this is your government. Those soldiers are in Iraq and Afghanistan and every other hell hole in the world because George W. Bush sent them there. In other words because “YOU” sent them there because he is your president whether you like it or not because it is your government that put him in the job. If you want them home as much as I do then get off your criticizing pissey little butts and do something about it. For those of you who want to continue to point a finger at these young men and women serving their country and accuse them of crimes I can only say this. You are amazing gods. I did not know that one could just sit in their living rooms and watch TV and read their blogs and other “intellectual” and historical papers and become the judge, jury, and executioner for 130,000+++ soldiers. The last time I checked that took a court of law in this country.
Do and say what you want but until hell freezes over I’m going to support and believe in my comrades in arms. Or at least until the jury comes in which is more than some of you’re doing. And we wonder why “OUR” progressive left is having trouble winning elections.
Those Are The Sergeant Majors Thoughts On That.
"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, September 7, 1903
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4 comments:
My guess is that people who blame or criticize the troops are people who have never served - in war or peace. I served in Germany, '66-'69. Though young and dumb I knew I didn't want to die, or kill, but also discovered while on alert in '68 (a live ammo alert which we'd never had before - or after) with rumours rife about heading out to the Middle East, that I was going to go and do my job, and not hide in the barracks hoping no one would miss me. Young grunts are in a hopeless situation - you've gotta do what you've gotta do. They're not in Iraq because they want to die, or kill other people, they've been (as you said) sent, and they're going to do the horrible job they've been given. My God, how can anyone believe these troops don't want to come home?
Just to be clear: I hate this war, and I hate the administration, and the wing-nuts that lied our way into it; for the troops I just feel miserable, whether they fight successful battles or not.
Finally, If you've never served - shut the *f* up.
Thank you sir. I believe you are correct. It just really frost me though when I read that shallow, ignorant garbage.
I never served (Reagan!?) but before a STFU I'll say that it's dumb to attack the soldiers. I'm proud of them.
New visitor, hopped over here from "Blog Them Out Of The Stone Age", which is a nice military history blog (with one of the cleverest names, ever). I'm a navy vet ('98-'95), a hospital corpsman.
Just wanted to say that I agree with your remarks, and share your dismay at the sorts of comments you're describing. By most of the yardsticks I'm pretty far left myself, but it's always embarrassing to hear folks who are on my side in a lot of things embrace deserters, talk up mutiny, that kind of thing. As you imply, once you start loosening military discipline for today's "good" cause, tomorrow you're likely to really miss soldiers who deferred to civilian authority.
Or you can put it in ways that some of the would-be hippies can understand: Early in his writing career, counterculture angel Hunter Thompson spent some time in South America, Brazil, I think. He wrote a little piece about how a barracks commander, a lieutenant or some such, got fleeced at a local gambling joint. So he did what any right-thinking officer would do -- rounded up his platoon and assaulted the casino! I remember Thompson had a line that went something like, "I wonder how the folks back home would react if the 101st Airborne decided to go on a stomping expedition in Tennessee".
One more thing: I also have to agree (sadly) with your point that, although Bush got us into the Iraq disaster, it was America, the citizenry and its institutions, that let him sell a stinking bill of goods. It's not like we're the old USSR, with the government controlling all the information. There was lots of evidence, tons, that the administration was hyping the "menace" of Iraq to pursue its own agenda. We all share in the responsibility -- in much the same way as the Germans in 1933-45. It's to our shame that the burden falls only on our soldiers, and the Iraqis. In my lifetime, my country has never seen a darker period.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
-- sglover
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