Saturday, January 13, 2007

Hadn't The Hippies Tried to Tell My Generation This?

Another wienie bails, when it turns out war is hard.*

Here's someone who thinks he'll stick with it. More with it than Dreher ever was. "I went to Iraq prepared to die ..." A soldier's thoughts.

Riehl elaborates.

*Many thanks to Greenwald, who is greatly inspired by this exemplar of spinelessness, for bringing it to us.

10 comments:

alphie said...

It's not that the war is hard, it's that we question the motives of its cheerleaders...

Another Christian with some interesting ideas about to treat female relatives:

"They went to church every Sunday. They just seemed like a very happy, normal couple..."

http://tinyurl.com/ybcpq9

What are we fightin' for again?

RebeccaH said...

Just another television-era simpleton who believes everything can be wrapped up in a set time frame with only a little fake bloodshed. No one to take seriously.

alphie said...

Everybody wants to believe they're fighting on the side of the angels, rebeccah, but only history can decide if they were right or not.

The platitude you offered up was tired in 2003, it's kind of embarrassing for you to still be using it here in 2007.

RebeccaH said...

Four years is a long, long time to you, isn't it, alphie?

Purple Avenger said...

it's that we question the motives of its cheerleaders...

The motives of the head choppers are so much more attractive by comparison right?

alphie said...

Not really, rebeccah,

Time flies when you're havin' fun.

Time passes a little more slowly while you're struggling to keep yourself and your family alive in a neocon-created hellhole, I imagine.

alphie said...

Are you talking about the Christian head lopper I linked to, or the other flavor, PA?

Purple Avenger said...

the Christian head lopper I linked to

I notice the usage of singular here. That isn't a mistake is it?

dwcart45 said...

Dreher's principles have been rather conveniently slippery, and obviously so, to anyone who's been reading him for the last few years. From the first few things I read of his on the NRO blog, I had the guy pegged as "unreliable". Incidentally, Florence King did a hilarious takedown of a book he recently wrote, in "The American Spectator".

RebeccaH said...

Time passes a little more slowly while you're struggling to keep yourself and your family alive in a neocon-created hellhole, I imagine.

Ah. We come to the crux (and I suspect a source) of your bitterness. Do tell us about your struggles in the neocon hellhole, alphie. Or are you just imagining it?