kerrying our troops

Check out this short excerpt from a recent John O'Neill article. He calls out naysayers like Kerry and Murtha--and of course the media--and puts them in their place. Such fools ignore all of the great successes our military has had over there and instead focus all their attention on a handful of failures, ignoring the fact that no war was ever perfect and occasional setbacks are to be expected in any conflict. Worse, such "Kerrying" only hurts those the Kerryites claim to care so much for--the troops in the field.

He also includes a bit of good history we can all learn from. Thomas Paine addressed exactly this sort of "sunshine patriot" during the American Revolution. Perhaps his "Common Sense" needs to be circulated once again to a new generation of cowards and turncoats. Better yet, how about Dewey's reason for not making an issue of Pearl Harbor in 1944: "I would rather lose the presidency and win the war than the reverse." I don't know much about Dewey but judging by that quote he was probably an upstanding, honorable guy, quite the opposite of the scum that has infiltrated the Democratic ranks these days. Today's idiots need to dust off some history books and learn some basic truths of war before they open their mouths and jeopardize the lives of so many troops. Or better yet, they ought to just sit down, shut up, and let the professionals wage the war.

As a side note, O'Neill introduces a new verb that I hadn't heard before but makes total sense: kerry. Brainster has already put forth a definition from another blog so I won't try to define it here. But given John Kerry's antics its meaning shouldn't be too hard to deduce. Some synonyms that come to mind are backstab and flip-flop (we can credit Johnny Boy for that one too--at least he gave us something useful). Or how about deserter, traitor, summer soldier, sunshine patriot...