Faux warblogger indignation
by kos
Fri Nov 14, 2003 at 02:17:49 PM PDT
One veteran warblogger took offense, and accused Tom of the usual anti-American b.s. People like Instapundit piled on. Their argument was that at least one or two of them served, thus Tom's cartoon was slandering them all -- even those who didn't serve and were simply chickenhawk warbloggers happily condemning our men and women to death by fighting an unecessary war we cannot possibly win.
Or something like that.
Such silliness. Truth is, people like Glenn Reynolds and Den Beste and the vast majority of chickenhawk bloggers -- heck, of all bloggers -- did not serve. The vast majority of Americans did not serve.
But fact is, most Americans aren't frothing at the prospect of sending our men and women to die for vague notions of "reshaping the middle east" or WMD fabrications. Those that do deserve every last bit of contempt that can be mustered.
It's noteworthy that one of the few conservative warbloggers who served -- Tacitus -- has also been the most realistic about the situation in Iraq. To most of us who served, our men and women in uniform aren't mere toy soldiers, pawns in a geopolitical chessboard. They are human beings, perhaps even people we served with. Friends and colleagues. With parents, wives, husbands, and children. They are not mere chattel to kill off in pursuit of neocon and warblogger fantasies.
There is no better way to support our soldiers than to wish them alive. Not dead. And the best way to keep them alive is to keep them out of war.
It's a tough concept for the neocon mind to grasp, I know, but it's true.
(More here.)
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