Loathing the Military
“I am writing…In hope that my telling this one story will help you understand more clearly how so many fine people have come to find themselves still loving their country but loathing the military.” – William Jefferson Clinton
Still loving the country but loathing the military. William Jefferson Clinton gave liberal patriots their motto. They don’t run about reciting it like This We’ll Defend or Semper Fidelis, but they live it all the same. Soldiers know This We’ll Defend means what it says. They volunteer and stand ready to defend the many freedoms and blessings God has provided our country, defend their units, their friends, their values…. For Marines, it’s Always Faithful - to country, to the Marine Corps, to their values, to one another…
The Love but Loathe motto of liberal patriots means we love the abundance and freedoms the country provides, we just don’t care a whit for the people that serve and sacrifice to preserve them for us.Can you loath the institution and still support the people who volunteer to serve in it? Ask a liberal patriot politician and you’ll hear her proclaim, we support the troops. Liberal logic makes me want to hit myself in the head with a chunk of firewood. That’s seasoned Oak Mr. Gore. Burns long and hot in the fireplace. Produces aromatic smoke, but I can’t tell that’s it caused any climate change over the past few thousand years that we’ve been using it for heat. Certainly smells better than a winter morning in the city, but I’m getting off topic.
Out in San Francisco (the home of Madam Speaker), they’re quite fond of the military. First, they voted military recruiters out of the schools. Then they banned the Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (JROTC). Your child might want to participate, or you may want to encourage your child to participate in a program that teaches history, citizenship, community service, organizational and leadership skills, values, character development… But, unfortunately, if you’re a San Francisco resident the school board decided you don’t need a program whose motto is “To motivate young people to be better citizens.” They probably didn’t tell you that across the board students who participate in JROTC have a higher graduation rate, higher attendance rate, higher GPA , a lower dropout rate and a lower rate of indiscipline (very large file) when compared to the remainder of students who don’t participate. I suppose they know what’s best for your children. Islam studies maybe. It may be beyond the comprehension of liberal patriots that someone, even a high school student, might actually be interested in service to our country.
Here on the East Coast, we have the botched joke, Charles Rangel elitist loathing of the Military. The botched jokers think our Military is full of uneducated killers who are too stupid to do anything else. Congress’s version of Al Sharpton wants you to believe that the Military is filled with the poor and is over represented by minorities – all out fighting a war for the rich man. Unfortunate for the jokers and Rangels, respectable people actually study such things. This Heritage Foundation study finds demographics in all measurable areas that are quite contrary to what our liberal patriots want us to believe.I’m not sure I know what causes liberal patriots to loathe the Military. Maybe, if you’ve spent most of your life in a privileged status – career Congressperson or one of inherited wealth, it could be that you take what’s good about your life and our country for granted. I don’t know for sure, since I’ve never made it to that status, but it is certainly hard to understand such thinking. What I can tell you for certain is that when you’ve worked hard to earn what you have and you come from a family tradition of hard work, you take nothing for granted and there is no question that you are willing to defend what you have and offer thanks to the people that made it possible for you to have it.
This Thanksgiving is the 7th since my retirement that I won’t be standing in a serving line in the mess hall to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the greatest collection of men and women God has allowed me to know. When my gathered family stands around the table and joins hands to give thanks, first we’ll thank God for our many blessings. Next, we’ll thank him for giving us these brave men and women who willingly stand between danger and us. We’ll ask blessings for them and their families. We’ll ask that he enter the hearts of the enemies they face for us, so that they too might be blessed. We’ll ask His courage and guidance for the leaders of our Military and our Country.
We’ll even ask a blessing on the San Francisco School Board and ask if God can see his way clear to give a brain to John Kerry and Charles Rangel.Have a Blessed and Safe Thanksgiving everyone!
Copyright © 2006 J. D. Pendry