Hanoi Jane and Baghdad Cindy
Does it ever occur to anyone else that perhaps the protesters need to focus on the evils of our enemies, instead of the so-called "mean-spirited...administration?"

Hitting a Nerve
I have to admit that I'm angry as I write. My morning paper contains above-the-fold photos and headlines about the antiwar protesters in DC, LA and SF. When I look at their old faces (somebody tell these people they're old, will ya?), I think of the chaos and carnage these exact same people caused as a result of the last big antiwar rallies.

Yes, chaos and carnage. Think about the last days of Saigon and the image you might see is the thousandsupon thousands of South Vietnamese we stranded there. Think of the horrors of Cambodia, then put on a couple of decades and contemplate the 300,000 poor souls buried in Saddam's mass graves.

And they don't need to bore me with the argument that such protests do not hurt our troops. Of course they do. What are they, stupid? Defense Secretary Gates is right when he says they embolden our enemies. But they won't admit it. They just won't; this has always been a great frustration to me--their intellectual dishonesty about cause and effect.

Add to that the ridiculous idea that America is, as John Kerry calls us, an international pariah. This coming from the Democrat candidate for president. Aren't you glad he lost?

Meanwhile, so as to not be accused of looking antimilitary, an outrageous mock display of an American flag-draped coffin, with empty combat boots at its foot, is front and center on the speakers stage.

Outrageous. You have to wonder about these folks and their real souls...what is about this country, which has been so good to them, would foster such hateful rhetoric? And please spare me from the argument that it's their patriotic duty. That's simply hogwash. They are nothing more than over-the-hill narcissists with waaaay too much money and waaaay too little gratitude. Their behavior against their fellow citizens and a country whose noble ideals and demonstrable charity through its own blood and treasure is an insult. Rwanda, Somalia, Kosovo and Darfur, Palestine and Iraq are only small examples of America's largesse.

America Can No Longer Fight Wars
I've come to the conclusion there is never going to be another chance for America to fight a foreign war. The media simply will not allow it. Their small-minded, leftist, elitist (as they sit in their ivory towers and mansions drinking Cristal) attitudes refuse to acknowledge some very important facts:

1. We now have a volunteer military. There is not one soldier, sailor or marine who is not there by choice;
2. America has broken every military promise it has made to protect and/or deliver peoples from tyranny beginning with Vietnam until now; and
3. The hatred for George Bush is the antiwar movement's catalyst. Because he is not "cool" and because he is a Republican who defines himself as a stalwart for democracy, and because they are convinced in their little brains that Bush is an illegitimate president--still--they have fanned out their own style of hatred in ways that the media adore. Their adolescent need of paternalistic, powerful imagery ("we need a father to guide us") causes this president not to fit their Hollywood template. Someone tell them Kennedy is dead and Willie is out of office.

My husband, once in the newspaper business, even admits to participating in these rallies in the 70s at University of Colorado. "But at least I've learned better," he stated last evening, in addition to something like, "They're at it again. The same people, the same BS."

So, the rest of the country will sit by, as most did during the Vietnam era, and allow these irrational fools to reinvent our foreign policy, if President Bush allows it, the idea of which makes me furious--and rather sick.

In the meantime, it's important for the president to take advantage of the time he has and do all he can to fulfill our promise in Iraq. He still has time left; but he must act now and without hesitation by revising the rules of engagement upward, defining what is victory and managing an impossible Middle East situation by calling Iran's bluff and engaging Israel in an attack upon Iran's nuclear sites.

And by the way, the president is still in charge, like it or not. If the protesters are against that fact, then they'd best change the U.S. Constitution.

Thanks for the read.