Letters to the Editor

• Bull. Shit.

  [Read the article: The cold price of hot blood]
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  "the "sticking up for them" consists mostly of sticking up for having more of them, with more costly health care" -- Elephantman

  I smell sneering condenscension for those who actually put on a uniform and stand in the ranks. The kind of sneering that comes through when George Will explains why he claimed whe wanted to go to divinity school only until his chances of being drafted diminished. The arrogance of somebody like Jonah "my mom got me this job at NR" Goldberg toward those who did not choose to hang around the cocktail-party circuit of Washington to assert what masculine warriors they are.

  Yes, Elephantman, the troops are really just a bunch of recipients of care from a nanny state to you. Why, they actually expect to be PAID instead of going over there to kill Iraqis for free, as the free marketplace would expect them to do!

  When I was much younger, those of us sleeping on the roof of an armored vehicle, stoically ignoring the rain, warming ourselves by standing behind the idling engines of a Chinook, eating crap out of cans and otherwise doing our best all knew that people like you sneered down your noses at us when.

  Do you have to make it so obvious?

  -- MAV in Florida

  If you ever heard an extended monologue from Secretary Rumsfeld, you know that he never tired of praising the enormous talents and the unbelievable courage and conviction of the troops.

  But of course, he had to oversee writing the checks, too.

  Rumsfeld didn't want a lesser Army, just a smaller one, that could do more with fewer people. Rumsfeld's critics, like Gen. Barry McCaffrey, are in the business of doing more with more.

  Remember it is nutballs like Charlie Rangel who proposed a new draft in the 21st century. Rumsfeld, on the other hand, derided the notion. Rumsfeld wanted an army of intelligent, motivated volunteers. Rangel apparently wants an army of people who hate the military.

  Permalink Tuesday, March 4, 2008 08:52 AM