We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.
Italics mine.
There's been paranoiac ramblings amongst the Pro-Warriors that withdrawing our troops from Iraq now would somehow "send a message" to the Iraqi Insurrection and their Terrorist "colleagues" that all they have to do is out-wait the U.S.. Well, this assumes two things about the I.I. and the Terrorists:
1. That it's very easy to send "messages" to them, and 2. That they're knowledgable enough of the MSM's shibboleths and Western Pop Culture to interpret those messages, and come to the same conclusions as the Pro-Warriors.
Erm...no. The MSM may be pervasive but it ain't that pervasive. And even if it were, IMHO the abusive use-to-excess of such cliches as "Greatest Generation" and "cause larger than one's self" sends far more of a message to all kinds of Terrorists worldwide about the lack of tactical imagination on the part of the Americans than withdrawing from Iraq ever would...:-/
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We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.
Italics mine.
There's been paranoiac ramblings amongst the Pro-Warriors that withdrawing our troops from Iraq now would somehow "send a message" to the Iraqi Insurrection and their Terrorist "colleagues" that all they have to do is out-wait the U.S.. Well, this assumes two things about the I.I. and the Terrorists:
1. That it's very easy to send "messages" to them, and
2. That they're knowledgable enough of the MSM's shibboleths and Western Pop Culture to interpret those messages, and come to the same conclusions as the Pro-Warriors.
Erm...no. The MSM may be pervasive but it ain't that pervasive. And even if it were, IMHO the abusive use-to-excess of such cliches as "Greatest Generation" and "cause larger than one's self" sends far more of a message to all kinds of Terrorists worldwide about the lack of tactical imagination on the part of the Americans than withdrawing from Iraq ever would...:-/