Saturday, July 02, 2005
The Press Tries To Snatch Defeat From The Midst Of Victory.
Daniel Henninger had a very interesting piece in yesterday's OpinionJournal about how "Ground Zero" has changed in four short years from a place of national unity to a symbol of national division. Here is a money
I said very early on that I think the President made a mistake when he told the nation to "go back to work" after 9-11. We were in a fighting mood, and he needed to capitalize on it. We are so wealthy and so powerful as a nation that it is very possible for us to conduct a war "on the side" that a few generations ago would have resulted in sacrifices and effort by every American, and those Americans would have glad made both. When this nation fights a war, we are all fighting a war, and we need to find a way to make sure everyone knows it.
My wife and I have made a conciosu effort to stay as involved as possible -- mostly by supporting soldiers -- we write several, send care packages, and if there was something else we could do, we would.
I want to challenge everyone this weekend to celebrate our nation, by supporting our troops. Join Soldier's Angels and adopt a deployed soldier. Go to AnySoldier, find someone that needs your help and give it. If you live near a military base, go there and thank some soldiers -- better yet, invite a few over for the picnic. Give to the USO. I don't care if you've read somehwere abou them being flooded in stuff -- they can swim, raise the water level. If your young and able and looking for something to do with your life -- go to the recruiting office and join!
This is OUR war. They are fighting for us - whether you want to believe it or not. Victory and success is their ticket home, they don't want it any other way, so if you support them, you will help them achieve just that. Please.
quoteWe've watched September 11 drift from unity of purpose to unhinged vituperation. The partisanship is easy to dismiss, but I believe the Bush team's deep disdain of a hostile opposition media has caused it to miss--until now--the need to organize a home front to support the remarkable sacrifice in Iraq. This failure may prove to be the one unforgivable thing.First of all, I am sometime amazed atr how hostil the "opposition media" really is -- Major K had a fine post on that recently. He says,
The arhabi threw everything that they had at the local Iraqi Security Forces in our sister Battalion's sector, in one of the largest coordinated attacks that we have seen since we got here. They failed. We had a few patrols nearby that jumped in just to help out, and they caught the bad guys with their pants down, big time.And then points to this headline from the Guardian.
Iraq insurgents snatch victory from defeatPresident Bush has enormous faith in people, sometimes I wonder if not naively so. I honestly don't think he "disdains" the oppositon media so much as he expects them to figure out where they are wrong, and I think he expects the American people to be able to tell when the press is just wrong. That is expecting a lot of people - I desparately wish those expectations could be realized, but experience tells me people often don't rise to such challenges.
I said very early on that I think the President made a mistake when he told the nation to "go back to work" after 9-11. We were in a fighting mood, and he needed to capitalize on it. We are so wealthy and so powerful as a nation that it is very possible for us to conduct a war "on the side" that a few generations ago would have resulted in sacrifices and effort by every American, and those Americans would have glad made both. When this nation fights a war, we are all fighting a war, and we need to find a way to make sure everyone knows it.
My wife and I have made a conciosu effort to stay as involved as possible -- mostly by supporting soldiers -- we write several, send care packages, and if there was something else we could do, we would.
I want to challenge everyone this weekend to celebrate our nation, by supporting our troops. Join Soldier's Angels and adopt a deployed soldier. Go to AnySoldier, find someone that needs your help and give it. If you live near a military base, go there and thank some soldiers -- better yet, invite a few over for the picnic. Give to the USO. I don't care if you've read somehwere abou them being flooded in stuff -- they can swim, raise the water level. If your young and able and looking for something to do with your life -- go to the recruiting office and join!
This is OUR war. They are fighting for us - whether you want to believe it or not. Victory and success is their ticket home, they don't want it any other way, so if you support them, you will help them achieve just that. Please.
