A View From The Front

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In the American Thinker, we find a piece by "A Soldier" that takes the media and the DFL to task for undermining the morale of our fighting forces.

[[ We’ve also been aware of the vicious political fever and anti-war tone that is constantly streamed to us via television, newspapers, magazines, radio, and internet. Being in the minority of soldiers with formal education it is disparaging to see how the masses of naïve and even ignorant soldiers can be so easily persuaded into believing that we are fighting for a corrupt government and that America is a war-mongering nation

Being force fed AFN (Armed Forces Network) we get the best stories that the liberal media can conjure up. Unfortunately for us, this usually means smearing whatever we have accomplished or were planning to accomplish. Bringing the war to our nation’s living rooms and bringing the news to our nation’s war front were mistakes from the beginning. Citizens with no military experience cannot begin to empathize with the hardships that we endure, nor can they understand the split second life and death decisions we are forced to make. Instead we’ve created a nation of hind-sight soldier critics with force fed tunnel vision. ]]

Truer words were never spoken. We have lots of "experts" going around spouting off irresponsible rhetoric that would have been, a few generations ago, considered sedition and punished accordingly.

The soldier closes with a dire concern and an eerily appropriate quote from Voltaire:

[[ As a soldier my concern is that while Americans enjoy their freedom of speech and freedom of the press they are inadvertently weakening our defenses, damaging our nation, and negatively influencing the frontline soldiers that continue to ensure their freedoms.

“Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.” – Voltaire ]]

Please read all of it.

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