{"id":26266,"date":"2011-08-22T07:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26266"},"modified":"2011-08-22T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:13:40","slug":"navel-gazing-at-hippie-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26266","title":{"rendered":"Navel gazing at hippie central"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom sends us an article from the New York Times<\/a> written by essayist William Deresiewicz, the latest imbecile to weigh in on the subject of whether the troops qualify as heroes. He calls it the “The new cult of the uniform”;<\/p>\n

The term most characteristically employed, when the cult of the uniform is celebrated, is \u201cheroes.\u201d Perhaps no word in public life of late has been more thoroughly debased by overuse. Soldiers are \u201cheroes\u201d; firefighters are \u201cheroes\u201d; police officers are \u201cheroes\u201d \u2014 all of them, not the special few who undoubtedly deserve the term. So unthinking has the platitude become that someone referred to national park rangers on public radio recently as \u201cheroes\u201d \u2014 reflexively, in passing \u2014 presumably since they wear uniforms, as well. Stephen Colbert picked up on this phenomenon long ago, which is why he slyly refers to his viewers \u2014 and now, to the donors to his Super PAC \u2014 by the same term. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, ya know what, compared to the three congressmen who stood on the roof of Saddam Hussein’s palace and declared Hussein to be more trustworthy than our own Republican president, compared to the “human shields” who went to Iraq to protect the people of Iraq from our bombs, but were instead employed willingly to protect Hussein’s war machine, compared to the Code Pink leaders who raised money for the enemy fighting against our troops in Falujah, not to mention Code Pink and union thugs protesting the war as the wounded are brought to Walter Reed on Friday nights, compared to the college students who spit on a wounded veteran outside of the National Archives back in January 2007, compared to all of those examples and countless others, the fricken forest rangers ARE heroes.<\/p>\n

Maybe the bar for being counted among “heroes” is so low because the anti-war left have debased themselves so much and disparaged the words “heroes” and “patriotism” to the point that anyone can be a hero or patriot compared to them.<\/p>\n

Deresiewicz might have a point if he had examined the entire issue instead of just trying to trivialize the views of one side of the spectrum. Have I mentioned that I hate hippies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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