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William Arkin has posted a rebuttal to the people who took him to task for being an anti-American, military-hating SOB. His rebuttal seems to have caused him to caused him to take one foot out of his mouth and putting the other in instead. It also sounds awfully defensive. Let’s start with his offensive post:

So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?

Arkin is full of it if he thinks that the soldiers that NBC interviewed told the rest of America to shut up. They simply said that they were sick and tired of hearing the Agenda Media say that they “support the troops but they don’t support the mission.” These soldiers simply said that they want people to support them and their mission.

Here’s what Arkin said today:

I said I was bothered by the notion that “the troops” were somehow becoming hallowed beings above society, that they had an attitude that only they had the means, or the right, to judge the worthiness of the Iraq endeavor.

This is the best way of digging himself a new hole. By saying that he’s bothered that the troops were becoming hallowed beings, he’s sounding like they aren’t heroes who should be put on a pedestal. I’d further suggest that Mr. Arkin isn’t doing himself a favor by saying that these troops shouldn’t be treated as experts on “the worthiness of the Iraq endeavor.” Why shouldn’t they be treated as experts since they’re there, seeing things firsthand? Why shouldn’t their opinions carry greater weight than an anti-military narcissist warming a chair in Washington, DC?

I understand people need to believe that the United States is engaged in a grand and noble mission to continue to support the deaths and sacrifices being made by American forces. Nonetheless, there is also an equally valid opinion that not only is the United States NOT involved in some fight for our lives in Iraq but that our military actions merely increases and complicates our insecurities tomorrow.

I’d like Mr. Arkin to tell us why he thinks that the Iraq war is making us less safe. I’d like him to explain why he thinks that the Iraq war making us less safe is “an equally valid opinion.”

Just because a bunch of Democrats say that it’s making us less safe doesn’t make it fact.

Technorati Tags: Iraq War, Washington Post, William Arkin, Anti-War Extremists, Military

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 4:14 pm and is filed under 1st Amendment, Activism, Author: Gary Gross, Iraq, Media, Military, Subversives, Terrorism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.