A Toast to Old Media’s — and Old Medea’s — Defeat in Iraq
What I most resent is the fact that our victories that were happening even before the Surge were not reported. And there were many such to report. Only the mayhem and OUR butcher’s bill was splashed on the news and the rags. It certainly did undermine the war effort. We almost didn’t get there because of it. The American public largely did not stay the course on this and, quite frankly, I am worried about the mettle of my country in future conflicts. In fact, I could see the handwriting on the wall back in May of 1973, when I graduated from high school and was soon to enter the Army. I saw how demoralized the Army was after the fall of South Vietnam.
The Medea Benjamin’s of our country just barely lost the political battle, however idiotic they are in their quest. Not for one moment do I underestimate these people. After the Army, I went to college and then grad school. I lost my way and was an academic Marxist for a decade of my life, so I got a look inside the Left.
Folks, now for the first time in our nation’s history we have a large critical mass of young Americans totally indoctrinated by the Gramscian Marxists. It’s going to take an ass-whipping by reality to shake these kids from their collectivist mindset. I voted for Carter twice, but I noted how most of my university classmates voted for Reagan. I had to go the long route of sifting and pondering all the nooks and crannies of Marxist thought before I gave it up. Most of these kids do not have either the predisposition or the kind of education necessary to think their way out of the subtle collectivist memes, templates, and instincts put there. It is going to take hard, hard reality to shake them from it.
I just hope the nation can survive the next four years. Anything is possible, both good and ill.
