Soccer Mom: Unplugged

Once again the war's most confused war critic speaks out.  This time to call mothers to action against any form of war.  This ignorant woman speaks out against nationalism in its most benign forms: the plege of allegiance and the national anthem.  How silly can one woman be. 

No mother wants to send her boys to war.  If you think that's hard, try being a military wife.

For that matter, no real man wants to go to war.  Those men who shout "hooah" are generally under 25 and half drunk.  Real military men don't want to fight and kill anyone.  They don't want their wives and children at home to bury them. 

But real men, real soldiers, take seriously the obligation to safeguard the freedom and liberties that we enjoy.  They recognize that no matter how safe we want the world to be, there will always be men like Bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, Castro, Lenin, and on and on and on..... 

Real soldiers, want to make life better in other countries where mothers like Cindy are burying their sons at a much more tender age than poor Casey was laid to rest.  Real sodiers know that over there (in that global community that Cindy talks about but hasn't really seen - unless you count that spring break to Mexico) children are bought and sold, maimed and killed, for nothing more than being on the side of the road at the wrong time. 

Real soldiers, real men, like my wonderful husband, have tender hearts for those suffering from oppression and willingly put their lives on the line to offer them a chance at freedom.

Real sodiers build schools where young girls, like Cindy, can be educated and perhaps teach their sons and daughters a better way of life.

Real soldiers build roads and bridges, establish power lines and bring food.  They offer medical services and schooling. 

Being willing to take aim and pull a trigger is only the beginning of being a soldier. A horrifying, unwanted beginning to be sure - but also, on occasion, very necessary.

Thank God for patriots who stood against oppression in 1776 (1775 actually) and who fought to free slaves (US) and Jews (Germany) and women (Afghanistan) .

She is right on one account, our government is not always the one wearing the white hat, we have made mistakes for which we continue to atone - but to wholly condemn our nation's defenders is throwing the baby out with the bath water.  Were Sheehan around in colonial days, she would no doubt have been a loyalist to the crown.  Shame on her for assuming that those who have endowed her, with their very blood, the right to freely spew such uneducated drivel, are the problem!

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