Posted by
Andrews on Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:16:54 PM
I could never quite understand the left. When it comes to sex or abortion, fourteen year olds are old enough to make decisions including receiving major surgery, though the same people would not allow them to get their ears pierced without parental consent. but it gets worse. I was reading some
comments on Amazon and saw repeated comments on "red white and blue couch potato patriots who would send our children to die for our SUVs".
So, let me understand. We should let 14 year old children decide whether to have sex, and whether or not to receive abortions without any parental consent or even notification, but 18 to, well, I heard of one MD who was a bit past 60, so 18 to 60+ year olds who have signed up for military service are "children"? Why do those who join the military get treated as infants while those who want to engage in unprotected sex and then abort the consequences with mom and dad finding out "adult" enough to do so? Even ignoring the absurd contention that our involvement in Iraq had something to do with oil (except in as far as any middle east involvement has some relation to oil), the way the left characterizes our soldiers is disgusting. When they aren't calling them "children", or insisting that their parents somehow "sent them", as if they had no choice, they call them idiots who were not smart enough to find a better job.
But they support the troops!
Disgusting. (And dishonest.)
POSTSCRIPT
Actually,
one of the discussion boards is rather interesting, and illustrates something I have seen before. The left often claims the "majority" opposes the war, thinks Bush lied, etc. And if you look at the number of posts, it appears about 50/50 in this board. However, count the number of
POSTERS, and you will see there are about 3-4 posting anti-war rants, and about 5 times as many posting many fewer posts per person, opposing the anti-war position.
It reminds me of a comment I once saw pointing out that DailyKos gets 10-20 times as many posts per article as TH, thus "probing" the liberal position is more popular. However, at the time, and ever since, I have argued that it simply proves liberals are both more likely to post comments, and more likely to post more comments per person. It is akin to the left's habit of
counting bodies at protests and arguing the left outnumbers the right, when in fact all it proves is that the left is more capable of drawing protesters. Which could mean, as PJ O'Rourke pointed out, we on the right just have jobs.
Anyway, not relevant to this post, just an interesting observation.
POSTSCRIPT II
By the way, just in the interest of disclosure, I have never read any of the books in question. I saw mention of them on a site I read and wanted to see what various readers thought. Strangely, what I found had some political implications. Then again, it seems recently, everything has some political facet.