They Don’t Really Support The Troops, And Now, They Slander Them
“Those on the cutting edge of progressive opinion are beginning to give up on even pretending to support the troops. Instead, they now slander the troops.”
by William Kristol
The Weekly Standard
07/30/2007, Volume 012, Issue 43
h/t John Gill
Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, emerged on the American political scene two years ago. Distraught and unstable, she was shamelessly exploited by opponents of George W. Bush and the war while such exploitation seemed to pay political benefits. When she became an embarrassment, she, like others before her, was tossed onto the trash heap of history by her progressive minders.
Sheehan was useful to the antiwar left in a particular way. As Jonathan Cohn put it in the September 12, 2005, New Republic, “Sheehan’s value isn’t as a barometer of public opinion or as a source of foreign policy wisdom. It’s as proof of one very simple point: that a person can criticize the war and still support the troops.”
