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Willam Arkin smears the troops

Posted 01 Feb 2007 in Democrats, Iraq, liberals, military, stupidity, war

Senators John Kerry and Dick Durbin must be sporting some serious wood, as they’ve got another anti-soldier voice in the press this week. Washington Post columnist (and full-blown asshat) William Arkin has gone off the deep end with some particularly scurrilous remarks about our men and women in uniform, which you can read here.

Arkin typifies the contemptuous mentality so prevalent on the left. And he’s having his ass handed to him by folks who are sick of hearing the arrogant, patronizing drivel of the self-appointed elite. It seems he got his little boxers in a bunch over the NBC report where soldiers commented about the people who claim to support the troops but no the mission. This gasbag even had the temerity to call our soldiers “mercenaries,” displaying his utter lack of respect along with a complete ignorance for the definition of the word. But then, his entire column was filled with mindlessness:

“I’m all for everyone expressing their opinion, even those who wear the uniform of the United States Army. But I also hope that military commanders took the soldiers aside after the story and explained to them why it wasn’t for them to disapprove of the American people.”

EVEN FOR THOSE WHO WEAR THE UNIFORM? Well, gee, bud, how freakin’ generous of ya! Imagine that, allowing those who’ve earned their free speech to actually use it! Sheesh! And even then you mince words. Typical liberalism: “Free speech for me but not for thee. You can state your opinion as long as it agrees with mine. Otherwise it’s ‘not for you to disapprove’ of people like me. Now run along and die for your country or get back home here and start acting like the ‘Meals on Wheels’ social experiment we want you to be.”

Listen, jackass. Those soldiers are out there risking their lives so dimwits like you can sit at home and write what you want. They don’t have to approve of you, they’re defending your freedom and rights regardless. It’s pretty crappy of you to hope their commanding officers would take them aside and dress them down for expressing an opinion when a reporter asks a question and shoves a camera in their face. Captain Ed gets right to the heart of it: “They didn’t say that George Bush should make everyone who opposes the war shut up, or else. They were asked about their take on people who say they support the troops but oppose the war, and they expressed their views.”

Apparently, Arkin can’t deal with that. If anything, it seems he thinks we hold our soldiers in too high a regard.

“We don’t see very many ‘baby killer’ epithets being thrown around these days, no one in uniform is being spit upon.”

With all his cognitive dissonance, it’s no wonder he’s already forgotten last week’s anti-war ugliness, where disabled vet Joshua Sparling was, indeed, spit at by a rabid protester.

Of course, that wasn’t even the worst of his dissemblance. This particular paragraph really got my blood boiling.

“So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage…”

Excuse me, but I gotta interrupt already. A decent wage? They’re hardly paid at all, sir. And Democrats like you are out there screaming about raising the wages of burger-flippers and illegal aliens while glossing over our military’s pay? Why I oughta… But wait, it gets better.

“…take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them…”

In what world is this guy living? It’s so obvious he just doesn’t get it. Our military doesn’t get paid much. And their living conditions are worse than what we give to the lowest scum in our society (check the conditions at any prison or a place like Abu Ghraib against the way our soldiers have to live every day).
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And as if that’s not enough, they have to put up with ignorant rants from journalists like this guy. Speaking of which, we now return to Arkin’s pretentious harangue, already in progress:

“… we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?”

Nobody said Liberals have to “roll over and play dead.” Go ahead and express your “dissent.” Just don’t be surprised when someone calls you on your stupidity. Or questions your patriotism.

Once the public heard his obscene diatribe and reacted, he instantly fired back with a post entitled, ironically enough, “The Arrogant and Intolerant Speak Out”. Freudian slip much?

“I said I was bothered by the notion that ‘the troops’ were somehow becoming hallowed beings above society, that they had an attitude that only they had the means – or the right – to judge the worthiness of the Iraq endeavor.”

Yeah, how dare those soldiers be allowed to have an opinon. He’s clearly upset that a soldier might know more about the situation in Iraq than an intellectual like himself. And he’s conveniently forgetting the way we’re all expected to bow and scrape to Cindy Sheehan, and the way the Left holds her above criticism and has practically made her a saint. But then, Arkin seems to be forgetting quite a bit nowadays. Like the fact that our soldiers are citizens, too.

“These men and women are not fighting for money with little regard for the nation. The situation might be much worse than that: Evidently, far too many in uniform believe that they are the one true nation. They hide behind the constitution and the flag and then spew an anti-Democrat, anti-liberal, anti-journalism, anti-dissent, and anti-citizen message that reflects a certain contempt for the American people.”

The only ones showing contempt are people like you, Mr. Arkin, who claim to be the champions of free speech and dissent, until someone expresses a patriotic or conservative viewpoint, and then you instantly seek to suppress or demonize them. Or have their commanders “take them aside” to straighten them out.

See folks? This is exactly the kind of thing I referred to last week with the whole Democrat/Democratic thing. These kind of liberals feel they have absolute moral authority. And to hold a different opinion from them automatically means one is “hiding behind the Constitution and the flag.” Isn’t it ironic that someone like Arkin who is against the troops can see that he’s standing on the opposite side from the Constitution and the flag?

I’m glad to see he got something right in his column after all.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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