Oh wait, the U.N. is placing more ‘restrictions’ on N. Korea. Uhm, sure. That’ll intimidate and show ‘em. Unbelievable.

Take a deep, deep breath man. Now exhale. OK.

I don’t understand what or whom you are replying to with your screech, but I would suggest that “church” has nothing to do with the word “belief.” If you would put yourself in the place of any one of the “all volunteer” military that we have, you might realize that when you sign up, you do it because you believe in something bigger than yourself. Doesn’t it make sense that someone better believe in something, even non-religious, like freedom for others, fighting evil in the world, protecting your own country and fellow citizens (which includes you!), that you had better “believe” in what you are doing because it might just cost you your life?

Hopefully, you can see that. But chances are not. Because all you can say is “Bush lied, people died.” What a moron.

……POM?

I think it also runs a tad deeper than that.

They ignore these heroes because their heroism shames them.

Look at how, even on Memorial Day, certain cretins could not restrain themselves from popping in here and mocking the military, questioning the wars in which these men and women acted, and denigrated the communities from which they came.

In any case, the liberal indoctrination starts at the university level and then, once these brainwashed journalism graduates find their way into newsrooms across this country, the bias only gets worse. A very small number of today’s reporters have ever served in the armed forces, so they really know very little about it (aside from what they are told, usually by the liberal editors in their news rooms). They then tend never to support the armed services in any of their reporting. Again, don’t believe me? Try reading some of the news accounts thrown out by the media about how we were “doomed” to fail in Afghanistan just before we went into the country. The media called it a “quagmire” and “another Vietnam.” But the bulk of the fighting was over in a few weeks, a new democratically-elected government has been installed, and woman for the first time in the country’s history were handed basic human rights (including the vote) that were all but laughed at under the Taliban. Are things perfect in Afghanistan? Certainly not, but the situation there (even by today’s violent standards) is far better than it ever was in Vietnam. Did we ever get an apology from the media for getting it wrong? Of course not, they never make mistakes.

Obviously, this anti-military bias only got worse once we went into Iraq and, rather than focusing on how well our troops performed in battle, the media decided to make Iraq a rallying cry against the Bush administration, forgetting that most of the DEMOCRATS in Congress also voted to go to war against Saddam Hussein. So the media decided to keep slamming the military, even to go so far as to call some of the Marines at Haditha “murderers” even though the men involved in that incident were cleared of those charges. Way to go national media, condemning our own troops before they even went to trial.

So it’s not surprising that the news media does not do any stories on brave Americans. And the Sean Penn Liberal elite in Hollywood would rather have their spleens removed rather than make a feature-length film that actually told some of the fascinating stories like the ones in the above article by Jeff Emanuel. Pity, because they would make exciting movies and they would actually instill some pride in Americans. But Hollywood did give us A LOT of movies highly critical of our military, like the crappy “Rendition,” “Redacted” or “Jarhead.” How sad is it that Hollywood can’t set aside its own bias to salute the brave men and women who go so far to protect us?

So now we have a news media that is actively biased against the military and you have Hollywood that refused to do a single picture about the military unless it portrays the armed services in a highly negative light. Is it any wonder that most Americans don’t know anything about our American heroes in uniform? Is it any wonder that most Americans will never know the names of those brave souls that gave their last full measure of devotion so that those lazy, selfish, S.O.B.’s in New York and Hollywood can continuing sipping their lattes at Starbucks or their lemon spritzers in the Hamptons while, at the same time, laughing at all those boneheads who ended up in the military just because they couldn’t find “a real job” with a good, solid, bank or brokerage firm?

Well, fear not, America. The one thing the media still hasn’t been able to stop are books about brave Americans. Books like Marcus Luttrell’s “Lone Survivor” can still serve as a reminder that there are plenty of good, solid, devoted Americans out there who are willing to risk all so that the enemies of this nation are vanquished on the field of battle. We owe an enormous debt to the men and women in our armed services, one that can’t easily be repaid given the huge sacrifices they make for us. I only wish that one day the teachers at our liberal universities, the people in our news rooms, and the people in Hollywood actually read some of these books. They may actually learn how great our military really is.

No, chum, you and are not entirely in agreement.
I do think a draft would be a good thing, and I’d draft everybody…because people who get wrapped up in logic and identity politics and things, while they may not need killing skills, certainly need experience “walking the point”.

And I’m looking at your shoe size…yep, you’re qualified. All the rest of us in the squad agree.

Get on it.

If you take a step and feel a mechanical click or something pulls on your ankle, just freeze in place and let us know.

We’ll get back to you, ace.

If you want to know about the partition of Vietnam, you should really find out why this was done and what where the terms of the Geneva Accords, and who violated them. You should then read the SEATO treaty and see why we where supposed to go. The only thing I will agree with you in this matter is the idea that when you fight a war you fight to win, and we did not. We don’t seem to be able to do that any more. However, we where not defeated in Nam, we did not loose, even when we left in 1973 the South Vietnamese where holding their own against the North and its allies by themselves. Furthermore, they continued to do so until 1975 when our congress eliminated the funding they had committed to provide them. At the time we were providing around 300 million dollars a year while the Soviets were providing over 1 billion. Once we did this the South could not defend itself. Check the history. Incidentally I served 1967-1970.