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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

I was reading the 40th Anniversary edition of Rolling Stone magazine today, and this image caught my eye:



It's from a December, 1967 protest in New York City of the Vietnam war.

Flash forward to the Iraq war protests, sometime between 2004 and present day:







Two things jump out at you.

1. The Left in America has nothing new to say, and

2. This protest movement is obviously being run by the same people who ran the Vietnam protest. Right down to equating the two wars (which is absurd on its face and really doesn't justify a response), the hard Left wraps itself in the humanistic mantle of pseudo-patriotism: pretending to care about the people in uniform, rather than caring for the mission of those people in uniform.

What they fail to understand is that their denigration of the mission ALSO denigrates the people, since this military is all-volunteer, and they see their worth as tied intimately to their work. It's a far cry from the drafted men who died in a war they did not support in Vietnam - our current troops believe in what they are doing.

And this is why the Left will ultimately lose: they are caught in a time bubble of their own devising, seeing this conflict - a just war against Islamic Fascism - in the same light as a war in southeast Asia they deemed unjust.

If it weren't for the 1967 photo, I would say it's the Oprah-ization of anti-war.

Clearly the anti-war movement is more about our values and culture than it is about our conflict with Islamic Fascism.


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posted by Tomás @ 8/03/2007 10:58:00 AM