Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, October 31, 2008 4:17:52 AM
Military Deaths Higher under
Bush? Another brilliant article from Dan Hallagan -
this time exploding the myth that Americans in uniform are
dying at a much faster rate than they were prior to the war on
terror.
It is unlikely that anyone – reporter or news magazine anchor, activist
or Hollywood celebrity – would have, in the absence of the War on
Terror, even noticed if 10,742 military personnel had died these past
seven years by non-combat causes. Perhaps an investigative journalist
hard-pressed for news might have observed that accidental fatalities in
the military had recently increased, but it is certain beyond a
reasonable doubt that rallies such as these would never have come to
pass
The reality is that the propaganda value of military
deaths is what moves liberals to action, not the deaths of the soldiers
themselves. A soldier killed on the practice range is apolitical and
therefore not useful or interesting. That same soldier dying in Iraq is
an antiwar, anti-Bush, anti-Iraq statement waiting to be made.
Again,
all military fatalities are tragic. But war has objectives, and the
question remains: has the military objective been worth it? The
objective in the War on Terror has been to cripple world terrorist
organizations and to stop this:
The
war has accomplished these important tasks and John McCain gets credit
right along with George W. Bush. And for all those conservatives,
Republicans and rational independents who nowadays cringe at the mere
mention of the name of our Commander-in-Chief during this election
season, the shame and failure is yours. Shame because you dishonor a
military achievement for which you begged seven years ago. Failure
because your silence has allowed a complacent electorate the
luxury of indulging in a socialist experiment at a time when an
anti-military globalist in the White House will likely spell disaster.