Some Thoughts on Idiots

I can’t begin to imagine where these people come from. I’m talking about the likes of Cindy Sheehan and her friends. The media is still feeling the need to give her and her supporters a national voice, and every time I hear from them I feel more confounded. What experience in their lives lead them to believe that leaving a defenseless people surrounded by their enemies to fend for themselves was a good idea? This kind of policy has come back to bite us in the ass again and again, and yet here they are calling for it once more. Where were Sheehan and her friends in 1991 when we encouraged the Kurds in Iraq to rise up against Saddam? Did they not see what happened to them because they trusted us? They believed that they had our support, and what happened? We sat back and watched them get slaughtered by a madman!!! Were Sheehan and her friends just not paying attention? Did they not see what price these people paid for trusting us? Now they call for us to remove our troops from Iraq. Now they want us to leave these people in the valley of the shadow of death with no one to watch their backs? Our troops have marched through that valley many times before; they can guide the Iraqis through. The terrorists inside of Iraq are already massacring the patriots of that nation. If we leave the Tigris and Euphrates will flow red. They will flow with the blood of freedom fighters let loose by those who would enslave the people of Iraq in the extremist Muslim bondage that they hope to someday impose upon us.

Our country has failed in diplomacy enough times; we have paid a dear price for our failures. When Ho Chi Minh asked for our help to free his people after WWII from French colonialism we failed to act. We had supported a free Vietnam when they were fighting Japan, but after the war we turned our backs on Vietnam. We funded the return of the French to a country that could have been an alley in the East. We chose the allegiance of France over the freedom of Vietnam. Now we have the allegiance of neither, and have paid the price of Vietnam with American blood.

We can ignore our Nation’s mistakes or we can learn from them. We have stabbed allies in the back before and paid the price. If we heed the words of the grieving mother, desperate to bring meaning to the death of her son, we will once again cause devastation to befall an alley. Removing our troops from Iraq will not bring them peace. They will be attacked by the terrorists who have been hardened in this conflict wherever they go. The freedom fighters in Iraq will be slaughtered, and our country will once again have the blood of patriots on its hands.

Brandon