Stupid Is As kerry Does

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I have avoided posting a lot of stuff on the john kerry (he served in Vietnam, by the way) issue... it sort of speaks for itself. Here, though, is a great look by Tim Kane at the worldview of the DFL.

[[ Sen. John Kerry’s comment to college students in California that without education, “you get stuck in Iraq” was not really a joke, botched or otherwise, but neither is the furor over the senator’s comment entirely fair. This line of thinking did not begin with Kerry, and the sentiment is not just a one-time gaffe made by a single individual. Rather, Kerry’s slip-up reveals a cornerstone of the left’s worldview: that soldiers are stupid.

Although rarely expressed so boldly, liberals’ beliefs that young soldiers are kids, not adults, and victims instead of volunteers has been apparent for decades. Rather than acknowledge that the hundreds of thousands of American adults who enlist are intelligent, and intelligently choose to serve as warriors, the Left has repeatedly characterized the uniformed service as a burden foisted on the less fortunate and less intelligent. ]]

Further into the column, he also sets the record straight on the issue of the "poor, stupid, oppressed" soldier.

Stupid Soldiers

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