Hot Topics at Vote Vets
A reader who expresses his gratitude for our tenacious criticism of that MoveOn shill VoteVets writes to ask us why an expired campaign is considered a “Hot Topic” at Vote Vets. The front page of the Vote Vets website has a “Hot Topics” category, the first two are related to that intellectually vacuous ad VoteVets threw money at about “Clean Energy” will end all wars. The third is related to a “Vote Vets candidate” who was killed in Afghanistan by the name of Bill Cahir. It seems the only “hot topics” are those not related to veterans. Here’s a screen shot of the Bill Cahir donation page.
Our reader writes;
Bill Cahir (a Sgt. in the USMCR) was killed in Afghanistan in August of last year and sounds like he was a true warrior. The sad part is, when one clicks to support a blank page come up that says “Campaign Expired”. Their website has done this since late November.
I guess now that Cahir is dead, he’s not of much use to the Vote Vets folks.
Category: None
Even if everyone in the US switched to solar power and started to drive more fuel efficient cars, this would not address the issues of the repressive cultural and social structure in Afghanistan. It would not prevent the spread of madrassas, the abuse of young boys, the subjugation of women, and the widespread lack of educational opportunities for all, nor the spread of extremist Islam. There are much better reasons to use energy efficient technologies, however, the VoteVets platform isn’t one of them. None of it makes a difference to the young man who has been schooled in madrassas his entire life and has been taught misinformation about everything from the history of his country, to the west.
One can argue the reasons for being there, but to make a knee jerk assumption that we’re only there for oil, is terribly misguided.
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