In November, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-Wellesley) she said we needed a different mix of troops in Iraq, with more MPs, civil affairs, and special operations forces, and less heavy infantry and armor. Rush and Hannity and all the rest were all over her, saying she was “anti-military” and was using this to attack Bush, etc.
Thing is, she’s right: tanks require a huge amount of logistical support, and they aren’t great for patrolling. As a civil affairs Marine who served with an infantry battalion in Iraq, I agree with her, and I’m pro-military and anti-Clinton (any Clinton, even George. Sorry, P-Funk.) Why disagree with someone just because their other opinions and actions are repulsive? When someone is right, they’re right. If they’re wrong, don’t resort to sloppy ad hominem attacks. Tell her why we need artillery to fight small groups of insurgents, instead of deploying sniper teams to ambush them.
So now she’s in trouble because she made some comment about Indians running gas stations. The outrage is over the top. (Had she ever shown any inclination to tweak the noses of the P.C. police, she might have gotten away with it — but can you recall any other comment she’s ever made that was the least bit un-P.C.?) It’s part of the strain of liberalism that holds manual labor to be inherently demeaning. I wonder how well that goes down with the unions. Wait — modern unions are all about avoiding labor of any kind. My fault.
Let the record show that I have now defended Hillary Clinton for two different things. I will now go lie down for a while so I can recover.
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Snow White certainly towers above the mob of dwarves stumbling and bumbling towards the 2004 Democrat nomination.
If she had a (R) instead of a (D) after her name, I imgine the response would be a little more energetic than it is now. Although to be fair to the protesters, she wasn’t making a David Letterman-esque joke about ethnic cab drivers, but Gandhi. Kind of like making an ethnic Polish joke with the Pope as the butt of it. Expect heat in the kitchen.
That being said, I agree with your post and military assessment.
Even a broken clock is correct two times a day. I wouldn’t expect much more from Hillary to agree with now. She’s reached her two.
+J.M.J+
You don’t like P-Funk?!?!?!?! Oh well, to each his own I guess ;-).
In Jesu et Maria,