Another Conservative shows his love for the troops

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/newshounds/10883/?a=14788

Dead American soldiers are good for the left since they can be used as pawns by
foreign policy doves: body bag pictures and grieving mothers -- all of it
undermines American morale and support for strong foreign policy. Dead soldiers can be cast as "victims," and their corpses cynically used as clubs against America's foreign policy. In holding itself up as the great defender of
victimized military members, the left denigrates the courageous choices made by
military members every day. Deciding to enter the armed services isn't a choice
the left understands, but it is a choice -- an honorable, brave, praiseworthy
choice. The leftist claim that soldiers are victims means that they are boobs
and ignoramuses, incapable of choosing a lifestyle that risks death in defense
of American freedoms.Implicitly, then, the "chickenhawk" argument rejects all
options aside from civilian pacifist control of American foreign policy. If all
soldiers are victims, too stupid or ignorant to make up their own minds about
joining the military, how can we trust them with foreign policy? And according
to the "chickenhawk" argument, civilian hawks cannot control foreign policy. The
only ones left are complete pacifist loons like Michael Moore and Arianna
Huffington. How convenient! And convenience is what the "chickenhawk" argument
is really about. Pacifists don't want to discuss real foreign policy issues --
they want to call names. That's what "chickenhawk" is about. At the end of the
day, "chickenhawk" is morally and intellectually chicken.

Zakkai 12.31.06 -
6:06 pm #