Incite -- (v) 1: give an incentive; 2: provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; 3: urge on; cause to act |
Friday, April 09, 2004
Written by: AnonymousBelow, I called John Kerry a wimp. Which means that if anyone ever read this blog, I would have to listen to rejoinders about how he served in the Army in Vietnam. Who gives a crap? Listen, I have nothing but respect for people who have served our country in times of war. One of my best friends, who also happens to be a blogger here at Incite, did so, and it would be difficult for me to express fully my admiration at his having done so. I will also admit that I would be unlikely to do so on a voluntary basis myself. I wish it were otherwise, but my best sense of self-knowledge tells me it isn't. That said, I'm getting sick and tired of people who think that having served in the military gives them some sort of extra-special credibility when it comes to foreign policy. I happen to know a lot about foreign policy, and the closest I ever got to the military was hearing second-hand stories of Captain Dave getting his balls edge-dressed at West Point. I bet those of you who have served in the military know hundreds of dumbasses who don't know a damn thing about foreign policy. I'm also getting sick and tired of people who think that having served in the military means that no matter what else they have done, are doing, or will do, they forever deserve to be branded as "courageous" or "manly." John Kerry is a wimp. He has spent more than the last 30 years of his life engaged in a series of acts of total cowardice -- from his shameful antiwar propaganda in the 1970s to his unwillingness to be honest and stand up for his own voting record in the 1980s to his feckless and contradictory approach to foreign policy in the 1990s and now. The fact that he trudged around a hostile jungle a few years before that does not and should not insulate him from such statements about his character. The defining image of John Kerry, when his life is viewed in context, is that of him tossing SOMEONE ELSE'S war medals aside at the Capitol, as if they were his own. It is not that of him serving his country in Vietnam. Thousands of others served, and thousands of other have not devoted the rest of their lives to bottom-feeding demagoguery and cowardice. John Kerry is a coward. End of story.
|
Contact The Author:
John Beck Feedback Welcomed
Greatest Hits
The Complete United Nations Posts Immoderate Moderates Marketing Myopia In defense of the Republic UKIP in America Playing Connect the Dots A Point So Often Missed: The Presence of an Administered Rate Reagan Remembrance Dr. Wolfowitz, or How I Supported the Right War Waged in the Wrong Way for the Wrong Reasons Divine Right of Kings and UN Mandates A Fantastic Idea, If I Do Say So Myself Why We Were Right to Liberate Iraq The Crisis of Conservatism
Blogs Worth Bookmarking
Steal The Blinds Poor Dudley's Almanac Mansizedtarget Protein Wisdom Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler New Sisyphus Iowahawk Jim Treacher Ace of Spades Captain's Quarters Rambling's Journal Neolibertarian Blog LLP Group Blog The Llama Butchers The Castle Argghhh The Politburo Diktat The Dissident Frogman In Search of Utopia Aaron's cc: TacJammer Wizbang Q&O IMAO INDC You Know You Wanna Classical Values Clowning Glory Vice Squad Samizdata Hit & Run Link Mecca The Corner Power Line Instapundit Michelle Malkin Mises Institute marchand chronicles Enlighten - New Jersey
More Top Reads
Ego SlagleRock's Slaughterhouse a_sdf This Blog is Full of Crap Redstate Who Tends the Fires The Bleat Outside the Beltway gapingvoid Small Dead Animals Kim du Toit Tman in Tennessee mypetjawa mASS BACKWARDS Hog On Ice Pardon My English Mr. Minority Speed Of Thought Bloodletting La Shawn Barber Vodkapundit Right Wing News USS Clueless LeatherPenguin Belmont Club Shades of Gray Seldom Sober Roger L. Simon Tacoma Blaze A Small Victory Murdoc Online Iraq Elections Diatribe Winds of Change Wuzzadem Enlighten - New Jersey Random Fate Riding Sun My VRWC The Daily File Matt "The Man" Margolis Bastard Sword Roller Coaster of Hate
News Links
Blogger News Network National Review Online Tech Central Station The Drudge Report Reason Online Mises Institute The Weekly Standard Front Page Magazine Town Hall VDARE
Affiliations, Accolades, & Acknowledgements
NEOLIBERTARIAN NETWORK LIFE, LIBERTY, PROPERTY ALLIANCE OF FREE BLOGS "More tallent than a million monkeys with typewriters." --Glenn Reynolds BEST CONSERVATIVE BLOG NOMINEE EMPIRE OF THE BLOGS BLOGS FOR BUSH
Life, Liberty, Property Community
Reciprocal Blogrolling
Yippee-Ki-Yay! Accidental Verbosity Conservative Eyes The Moderate Voice Perpetual Three-Dot Column Chapomatic Sudan Watch Mystery Achievement Le Sabot Post-Moderne Comment Me No Comments New Spew
Links That Amuse the Writers
Huffington's Toast The IFOC News Dave Barry's Blog Drum Machine Something Awful Fight! Cox & Forkum Fark Exploding Dog
Archives
March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 August 2006 March 2007 May 2007 June 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 September 2008 November 2008 December 2008 March 2009 April 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009
The Elephant Graveyard
We Are Full of Shit The Sicilian The Diplomad Undercaffeinated Insults Unpunished Fear & Loathing in Iraq Right Wingin-It DGCI Serenity's Journal Son of Nixon Rachel Lucas
Credits
Popdex Email Questions and Comments This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. |