Supporting the Troops?

Every liberal politician who is against the war in Iraq must nevertheless insert the caveat that of course they support the troops. But what does that mean, and how do they truly express their support. Ralph Peters doesn't believe that they actually do support the troops, and takes on their hypocrisy.

Overwhelmingly, those who have been crying for a year-and-a-half to “bring our troops home,” and whose fervor is now renewed by the electoral contest, don’t give a flying latte about our soldiers. Whether we speak of the irresponsible, self-important celebrities suddenly pretending to care about those in uniform, or the “useful idiots” (to use the Marxist-Leninist term) who crowd the streets to condemn a war of liberation because “America must be wrong” and who weep crocodile tears for brave young Americans they privately despise, the truth is that there are no more repugnant creatures on the American political scene than those who pretend to represent the best interests of our troops while secretly celebrating every one of our casualties.

When someone who has never served in uniform, who will never serve in uniform, whose children will never serve in uniform, whose relatives don’t serve in uniform, and who doesn’t even know—or want to know—anyone who actually serves in uniform tells you that they’re speaking on behalf of our troops, you know you’ve met an Olympic-level hypocrite, a vampire sucking the blood of America’s best.

These same people will be in New York, protesting the Republican Convention. Of course, when there is actual evil - like Saddam gassing Kurds, or massacres in Sudan, or suicide bombers killing innocents - these people are nowhere to be found.

The American Left is out of ideas, out of morals and out of simple decency. All they can do is to shout, lie and pretend to care about those American citizens—our troops, inner-city minorities and the average working man and woman—for whom they don’t give a tiny shred of a damn.

The protesters are going to do a lot of shouting in New York. If you hear one honest voice among them, call me.