Our Rough Men Get Rough Treatment
By Thomas D. Segel
February 11, 2008
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While the Democrats continue their anti-war and anti-military diatribes across the United States, it can be said that they are not only benefiting themselves...but, the enemy. In October 2006 Brooks Mick, writing for The Conservative Voice said it best. "If one's actions give aid to the enemy and make it more likely for the enemy to achieve his objectives, then one is pro-enemy, logically."
Using that analogy, if one is anti-war, anti-military and pro-enemy, is he or she really a person who should be leading our nation?
There is an Orwellian quote that many have heard and it succinctly explains that the way to have a peaceful world is to win conflicts against vicious forces is by using even greater force or violence. "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
It might help some of our Democrat friends if they would take time to read a poem written by Russ Vaughn of the 101 st Airborne Division back in 1965, in a place called Vietnam. A few lines from his writings read:
The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men who defend them, as barbaric, obscene
Yet rough men stand ready, hard weapons in hand
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.
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