Soccer Mom: Unplugged

Much valuable print space is given to photos of and statements by Americans who clamor for peace.  They condemn war at any cost.  Or do they?  A closer review of the statements and activities of these groups reveals that not only do they not give a damn about war generally, their efforts are focused not on stopping war but on condmening and impeding American response to war. 

Most of these groups are thinly veiled front organizations for political operations like the American Communists or social movements looking to take advantage of the free publicity.  In fact, if these groups were at all interested in stopping war, they'd be in Indonesia (see below) right now.

Anyone who takes a 30 break from the MSM and does one mouse click's worth of research will find that ANSWER one of the largest organizers of the anti-war rallies over the last 5 years was founded just 16 days after 9/11 by none other than Ramsey Clark, a communism supporting Democrat who served under Johnson and was the party's nominee for Senate from NY in 1974.  I won't even address the fact that he is defending the Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein.

If Clark had any interest in stopping war, why wasn't he in Saudi Arabia before September 11th protesting outside of the madrassas?  Why wasn't he in southern Lebanon picketing Hezbollah?

These groups are pursuing a political agenda whether or not the 19 year old koolaid drinking college coeds who fill the ranks are aware of it and stopping war is nothing more than a talking point. 

 (h/t Atlas Shrugs)

WWII American propoganda painted the German soldier as a monster that relished killing and torturing others.  It painted him as unthinking and unfeeling - a knuckle dragging neanderthal - who lived to wreak havoc and leave destruction and death in his wake.  It was a psychological tactic designed to allow young American soldiers, most of whom were completely unexperienced with the horrors of war, to kill another man or boy in cold blood. 

Today the same tactics are being used by Americans.  Not by the military establishment, mind you, our soldiers know very well that they are killing men who probably have wives and children, adversaries with mothers and fathers.  They understand that their enemy is no less complex than they themselves are.  They do not relish the duty which they are called upon to fulfill but they recognize that freedom is a right all men must share if any of us it to be free from the threat of terror.

No, the propoganda war isn't being waged by the U.S. military but against them.  Anti-war protestors levy charges of "baby-killer" and "mercenary" against Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines daily.  Spurred on by left-leaning politicians and partisan hate-mongers, these voices fill the air with the vilest rhetoric and the most judgemental accusations.  The shouts of protestors and the angry descriptives they use to reference our military appear designed to convince us that those in uniform are subhuman monsters who either relish the act of killing or who are able to emotionally detach themselves from their actions. 

The ability of anti-military citizens to shout these characterizations with such hate and venom attests to the fact that they have become vicitims of their own propoganda.  They have become the mindless bigots they claim to despise.  The descriptives they attribute to our servicemen and women are mirrored in their own behavior.  They have demonized an entire group of people and endeavor to enrage others by using a generalized caricature of their own misperceptions.  Living with the hypocrisy required to accuse our soldiers of mistreating and dehumanizing Iraqi insurgents while reducing our soldiers to lemming-like homicidal minions must demand an immeasurable amount of self-delusion. 

That such "pacifists" have become the most hateful and horrifyingly biased of our people is a tribute to the American soldier.  Amidst the frantic antics and loud sounds of the anti-war protestors, the American soldiers trudge on.  Standing ready, ever ready, to protect the freedom of even those who unfeelingly and unthinkingly despise them.