"Hate the war, love the warrior", and other lies of the left
Posted by: McQ
The QandO Blog
Monday, August 29, 2005
Can you name the era for this quote?
“A woman on campus had apparently learned I might be a
Marine. When I told her I was, she said, ‘You’re a
disgusting human being, and I hope you rot in hell!’ ”
Vietnam perhaps? I mean, given all you've heard about the era (and assuming you didn't live through it), you'd label that as something you'd typically expect to be said at that time.
And we're told, over and over and over and over again, that the anti-war crowd has learned their lesson, that they'll never again confuse the warrior with the war or deride, defame or insult our troops ... right?
Well, as I've sure you've now guessed, it's not a quote from the Vietnam era, but from this year to a student who happened to be a Marine. Marine Sergeant Marco Martinez is a psychology major at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif. He's also a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and a winner of the Navy Cross. You can read his citation (link below). For those of you unfamiliar with the Navy Cross:
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The Navy Cross — as in second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor. Martinez, formerly of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, is a bona-fide American hero and the first Hispanic American since Vietnam to receive the Navy Cross. During the Battle of At Tarmiya, one of Sergeant Martinez’s fellow marines had been hit in the legs and left for dead by five terrorists holed up in an adobe garden shed. That’s when Martinez used his body to shield the dying marine from the terrorist before mounting a 20-meter frontal charge at the bunker with nothing but a depleted rifle and a grenade. With enemy bullets pinging off his gear, Martinez unpinned the grenade, slammed his body into the adobe building, and lobbed the device into the window of the structure, killing all the terrorists inside.
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For that his classmate describes him as a 'disgusting human being' she hopes "rots in hell". Says Martinez, a master of the understatement, given his classmate's fond wishes for his future:
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“There are a lot of people who don’t appreciate military service in college,” Martinez said. “If someone asks me about it, and I think that they’re not too liberal, I might tell them I was in Iraq. But I don’t tell them the full extent of it or anything about the Navy Cross.”
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Beginning to sound like an old story?
Armand McCormick is a student at the University of Northern Iowa. A staunch supporter of the war in Iraq, he challenged an anti-war speaker's arguments and was told sneeringly, “The Iraqis don’t want us there. If you think the war is okay, then why don’t you go and serve!”
The old chickenhawk canard. Of course in McCormick's case, it was an ignorant retort. But as he points out, in the atmosphere of many campuses today, not much else can be expected. He, in fact, uses the correlary argument in many of his classes:
“I’ve had a few conversations about [the War on Terror]
in the liberal classrooms I go to everyday,” said
McCormick. “A lot of the time I just look at them and
tell them that they don’t have any clue what they’re
talking about, because all they do is listen to liberal
news. I always tell them, ‘If you don’t experience
something, how in the hell can you say what will
happen?’ ”
And he too doesn't bother to tell them about his Silver Star:
As Corporal McCormick rightly points out, his classmates’
reliance upon the elite mainstream media all but ensures
that they are unfamiliar with the jaw-dropping acts of
heroism he performed on March 25, 2003, in Ad Diwuniyah,
Iraq. Far removed from the breezy comforts of a college
campus, it was there, inside an enemy trench, that
McCormick, along with his two fellow Marines, captain
Brian Chontosh and corporal Robert “Robbie” Kerman, was
swarmed by what officials estimate was a company-sized
element of between 150 to 200 Iraqi fighters. When the
smoke cleared, the three marines had not only survived,
they had eliminated scores of enemy fighters and regained
key territory.
Here we go again. The "never again" that was promised by the anti-war left in the wake of Vietnam is crumbling in the face of their hatred of George Bush and the war in Iraq. For some, their incipient hate of all things military is finally bubbling to the surface as a manifestation of the frustration at being unable to rally support to stop the war.
Warriors are again "fair game" to some of them. Oh, I know, on the whole, America loves its soldiers. But don't ignore the developing trend in certain places among the "usual suspects", and don't ever again fall for the lie that the anti-war left "hates the war, but loves the warriors":
But as liberal professors and antiwar activists continue
to wage a nationwide campaign to rid university campuses
of military recruiters — in some cases going so far as to
throw water bottles and scream epithets at them — it is
easy to see why Sergeant Martinez would remain tight-
lipped about being one of the nation’s most decorated
heroes.
Indeed, as one campus newspaper reported, the rift
between young veteran college students and their civilian
classmates has left those who have served feeling
isolated from campus life, “shunned” because of their
service.
You know all about Cindy Sheehan, but had you ever heard of Sergeant Marco Martinez, winner of the Navy Cross and legitimate war hero?
No, neither had I.
I wonder why?
(HT to McQ2)
UPDATE: How about another example.
thatliberalmedia.com
qando.net
nationalreview.com
las-cruces.org
homeofheroes.com
rense.com |
