{"id":28328,"date":"2012-01-15T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28328"},"modified":"2012-01-15T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T00:15:40","slug":"target-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28328","title":{"rendered":"Target: You"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.” -Saul Alinsky<\/em><\/p>\n

The silent majority’s revulsion at the New Left’s demonization of Vietnam-era veterans created an environment in the popular consciousnesses that said, “Never again. Never again will returning troops be spit upon and libeled as criminals.” However, the media’s discovery of the 3\/2 urination video has crystallized in my mind a reality of anti-war propaganda, that the nature and character of the troops themselves is the battleground, yet again. <\/p>\n

In the wake of the video’s discovery, a sad dichotomy has emerged in the media. On one side are the “reasonable” and “responsible” forces who call for the discipline of these Marines for their actions. They studiously call for deeper investigations and ask “the hard questions” about how and why this happened. Those who have served in uniform, our nation’s true journalists<\/a>, conservatives and those on the left with the strategic and moral clarity of the late Christopher Hitchens are left to cry out for context<\/a> and make emotional declarations of solidarity<\/a> with the dehumanization of Taliban fighters. In other words the narrative established in the opening hours of the story forced the defenders of the American service member into the indefensible position of championing pissing on dead people. That’s a losing fight.<\/p>\n

In very recent history the discovery that Marines had urinated on the enemy’s dead would have triggered an internal disciplinary action, if for no other reason than such behavior undermines the professionalism and bearing upon which the Marine Corps stakes so much of its reputation. Today, though, it becomes a media firestorm, a chance for the often collusionary anti-war and anti-American forces to vilify the effort in Afghanistan as a lost cause perpetrated by the morally bankrupt. Stories such as these, in conjunction with the largely manufactured rash of recent PTSD horror stories, function to establish a narrative of immoral entropy, making the case that the war effort in Afghanistan is fundamentally corrosive to everyone touched by it. Instead of a difficult and noble endeavor to do right, to spread basic human rights and to doggedly pursue the most evil cabal of men in modern history it is a cancer on the nation to be cut out without mercy for the well being of the entire nation.<\/p>\n

This is a fight which will be waged at your expense; the active duty and reserve service members and the families which sacrifice so much to put them and keep them in the fight. There’s a target on your back. Keep your chin up and your nose clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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