Young Lions
Not everyone believes Moore’s nonsense.
But here’s what I noticed in the DFAC today: young faces. Young determined faces. Not much older (but far wiser and much more mature) than the crowd at a high school lunch room. You can tell without asking what these guys think. They look you in the eye. And if you can stand to look back you’ll see into the eyes of the undefeated. There is no quit here, no early out, no cut and run. These are young men with an ugly job, America’s finest sent to do our worst and best, and they make me feel old and inspired all at the same time.
So here is the first impression of your fine young sons: They walk straight and tall with heads held high in this war-torn world, in this sagging land. I wish you who can only read of defeat trumpeted in your newspapers or on your TVs could have walked among them and seen this for yourselves.
I read where someone said George Bush and Dick Cheney are the only people in America who think Iraq is going well. That may be so, but I don’t believe for a minute they think it’s a picnic.
And I saw 300 young Americans in Iraq today who didn’t look like quitters.
Good for them. And Moorewatch will be able to help 5000 others feel the same way soon.
A lot of this obviously has to do with media coverage and perceptions. For the left to win the battle of public opinion, things have to be horrible. Tragedies have to occur so they can point the finger of blame. In this particular issue, the troops have to be at their lowest so they can both complain publically how much they hate Bush and fail in their mission (and failure means death, but no one wants to admit that is precisely what they’re hoping for, a series of tragic events they can exploit). That way we can all blame the CiC and the left, no matter who is at the helm, carries the day.
Yeah, well, that’s a bunch of crap. And we’re going to make sure that the men and women risking their lives know that America does not want them to fail. We’re going to fight these false perceptions, the way we fight Moore’s false assertions about our country.
“They walk straight and tall with heads held high in this war-torn world, in this sagging land. I wish you who can only read of defeat trumpeted in your newspapers or on your TVs could have walked among them and seen this for yourselves.”
Exactly.
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