I HATE TO STEAL POWER LINE'S TOP POST from them, but it had a bracing headline and makes a vewry good point.
The guys received an e-mail today from Arthur Chrenkoff, who many of you already know for his absolutely tireless effort to bring the good news of the war on terror home. He has acted as a wonderful counterbalance to the one-way news we hear every day, and were it not for him, many of us would not even know all of the wonderful things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His note to Power Line is entitled "The Only Good American Soldier is a Dead American Soldier."
Ted Koppel will be again reading out the names of American soldiers fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan sice last year. I've got a modest proposal to Ted Koppel and "Nightline": why don't you read one day the names and show the pictures of the 170,000 or so American servicemen and women stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan who every day are working their hardest to ensure that democracy takes root, terrorists are defeated, and these two countries have a chance to build a better future for their people. That might convince a cynic such as myself that you really care for the troops generally, and not just only when they can be cynically used to embarrass the Bush Administration.
Hinderaker notes that soldiers have been dying in the line of duty for a very long time, whether it be in war or in peace-time. Their profession indeed demands perfection and is highly dangerous, with things like live-fire exercises and carrier landings a common practice, regardless of whether hostilities exist somewhere on the globe.
As he put it, why does the left suddenly care now?
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