An Honest Moon Bat Kinda Sorta

Joel Stein , who somehow thinks he's being funny is actually expressing the truth about what the left really thinks about our troops. I wish the whole bunch of them stop pretending that they hold any affection for America and just come out and say what they think, that America is the source of evil in the world. Then I want them all to get out and go live in a nation that they can be proud of.

...I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they're wussy by definition. It's as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.

But when you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know you're not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada. So you're willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism, for better or worse. Sometimes you get lucky and get to fight ethnic genocide in Kosovo, but other times it's Vietnam.

I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we don't think was a good idea. All I'm asking is that we give our returning soldiers what they need: hospitals, pensions, mental health and a safe, immediate return. But, please, no parades.

Seriously, the traffic is insufferable.

Insufferable is people such as Mr. Stein who enjoys the many benefits of being American while complaining about the country which is the source of such benefits. The sad part of this moon bat outlook is it's just sour grapes for their party having lost control of the government, evidenced by his lauding of the mission to Kosovo as something worthy yet condemning Iraq as some imperial adventure having nothing to do with our security. What is the difference? Clinton initiated the Kosovo intervention, Bush initiated Iraq.

So Joe Stein gets brownie point for finally being honest about his contempt for our military, but still needs to gain some honesty in his critique of their missions. After having done so he could then admit to the similarity of views to Osama Bin-Laden and their shared enthusiasm for the writings of Mr. Blum.

The LA Times who printed this column is probably still wondering where all their readers are going.

Independent Conservative says Joel Stien, What an Idiot