Is There Any Doubt that Democrats Loath the Military?
Bill Clinton famously articulated this:
The following is Bill Clinton’s December 1969 letter to his ROTC Director, Colonel Eugene Holmes. This text was taken verbatim from “SLICK WILLIE”, by Floyd G. Brown. Not a word has been changed.
“I am writing too in the hope that my telling this one story will help you to understand more clearly how so many fine people have come to find themselves still loving their country but loathing the military…”
That is unless they can hype up their military service for purely political leverage. John Kerry’s spectacular three months in Vietnam and Max Cleland’s heroic stories of combat in Vietnam that turned out to be a dumb ass who blew himself up on a beer run are great examples.
Hillary Clinton even claimed to have tried to join the Marines:
She told the group gathered for lunch in the Dirksen Office Building, according to The Associated Press, that she became interested in the military in 1975, the year she married Bill Clinton and the year she was teaching at the University of Arkansas law school in Fayetteville.
She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. ‘Not Very Encouraging’
To believe this story of course “requires the suspension of disbelief”. 1975 was the year she married Bill. They were both teaching law in Arkansas where Bill was already seen as a shoe-in to be the next Attorney General.
And we are to believe that this newlywed to a rising star was trying to join the Marines?
Now the noted social anthropologist, Tom Harkin has declared that growing up in a military family is “dangerous”.
According to Senator Harkin, (D-IA), this is a bad thing. Not just bad, but potentially dangerous:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, “and he has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.
“I think he’s trapped in that,” Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. “Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
Harkin said that “it’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up.”
Of course Harkin was busted as a fake war hero years ago. Since he can’t claim to be a war hero any longer, he has now decided that even being in a military family is “dangerous”.
With the exception of political posturing, these people do in fact “loath the military”.
Category: Politics
