As one watches the Israeli maneuvers in Gaza, one can but wonder at the
reports coming from the leftist media and politicians.
Though fairly silent as Hamas and other so-called “Palestinian” groups
laid waste to civilian areas with rockets from Gaza, a constant drum-beat of Israeli “atrocities” comes from our media.
When this is compared to the constant yammering about our troops “losing” in Afghanistan and Iraq, it becomes readily evident it is not the killing that bothers them
but the winning of the fight, by all common sense the “good guys,” which seems to torment them so.
After all, if regular armies can prevail in the end against insurgents,
then the myth of “unwinnable” wars would be disproven.
‘Militants’ Are Not Truthful
The militants and other anti-American groups beg a simple question to be answered:
Who are the Palestinians and these other militants we and the
Israelis face in this fight?
To believe our media, we would think they are all fighting for a “homeland,”
to simply live in peace.
If this were true, we could simply demand and enforce an edict that all in the area give a little and give them a place to live and prosper.
The truth of the matter is that no Arab nation wants them on their border
or in their midst, in the case of the jihadists, fomenting revolution to
bring about a nation that is subservient to the religious zealots.
Thus Israel is a convenient whipping boy while the oil-rich nations pay
them and do not support to further the cause but to simply stay away from them.
Our media and leftists in government think we can all just sit down and
hammer out a solution by talking.
These folks learned “talk and fight” from the communists. They know that
our media will talk negotiation any time their revolutionary heroes
start to lose.
Win? Phew!
We kicked Vo Nguyen Giap's butt in Tet in 1968, and our leftists were not
satisfied until we were sitting in Paris negotiating our surrender in a
fight we had just won.
In 1972-‘73, we did exactly the same thing after the South Vietnamese fought the sons of Ho to a standstill and destroyed most of their equipment with only United States air support.
The truest, saddest thing in all of this is that we have an entire segment
of our western world that dislikes soldiers and what they do so much,
they simply cannot stomach simple victory through force of arms.
None of the talk about prison conditions at Gitmo or how a football player died in the Rangers has a thing to do with “human rights,” caring
or honor on the battlefield.
The Distaste of Victory
From the Vietnam battlefield to the arid sands of today, it is a military
losing they covet so — and not so-called peace. They simply hate military winners. They cannot stomach victory simply because they detest warriors and all they stand for.
Is the above a simplistic military man's view of the world?
No.
It is reality, and it really is important.
Maj. Mark A. Smith, U.S. Army (ret.),served in Vietnam. He was a Prisoner of War. He may be contacted at majorzippo@yahoo.com
