What a great point Ralph Peters makes on the thunderous silence of the Democratic liberal base regarding Sen. Barack Obama (“Antiwar Hypocrites, PostOpinion, July 24).
Had President Bush made the same comments about adding troops to Afghanistan, the liberals would have gone into “Bush lied, people died” hysteria.
But when Obama makes a pro-military aggressive statement, there is nothing but silence from the left.
The Democrats have no ceiling on their moral hypocrisy. After all, their “moral leader” for the last four decades has been Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Matt Nugent, Staten Island
What a great article by Peters.
What happened to the Greatest Generation, which fought and won World War II? What happened to my generation, which saved South Korea?
We felt that we had a duty and an obligation to serve our country. There was no hiding behind mama’s skirt, in college, behind empty slogans or in other countries.
Let’s bring back the draft. Everyone should serve their country, or soon we will no longer have a country.
Ralph Cutro,
Gold Canyon, Ariz.
Peters is way behind in his thinking.
When the United States invaded Iraq, I was asking college Republicans who supported the invasion why they didn’t enlist.
They provided the lamest of answers, especially: I’m supporting the troops over there by supporting them over here.
I even offered to drive them down to the enlistment office. Not one accepted, and not one ever enlisted.
Here is my challenge to Peters: Go out and find some college-educated, young Republicans. Find out why they support the invasion but won’t enlist.
John Chamberlin,
Garland, Texas
Peters is right. The whole “antiwar movement” was really a political movement. They were protesting Bush and the Republican Party, not the war.
Soldiers died during the Clinton administration, and you never heard from any of the protesters.
Liberals hate Bush for living, plain and simple. If he had tried diplomacy instead of war, they still would have hated him.
Republican hatred is the single greatest form of racism, dividing the nation at a time when we must be united like never before.
Jonathan Stern, Hartsdale
The “chickenhawk” argument was illogical and invalid when the left used it to attack the right.
It is no less illogical and invalid now that Peters deploys it against the left.
The policies endorsed by Obama and the anti-war crowd can be easily refuted on their complete lack of merit, and Peters does the debate a disservice by resorting to such hollow rhetoric.
Scott Knudsen, West Nyack
Bush freed 12 million enslaved women in Afghanistan and a total of 48 million people from tyranny and genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet somehow he is a bad guy. How thankful are African-Americans that the likes of the liberal left, including Obama, weren’t in power during the Civil War?
War is not pretty, but when the big kid on the block allows tyranny, enslavement of women and genocide to exist without doing all he can to stop it, we have a much graver situation for the unfortunate recipients of these societal injustices. Thank God for Bush for doing something about it.
Michael Patracuolla,
Bloomfield, NJ