A Matter of Perspective

Ralph Peters mentions something deadlier than terrorism"

The losses are catastrophic. Over fourteen times more Americans dead than we lost on 9/11, and almost fifty times as many as have died in Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s statue fell.

In 2003, 42,643 people died on America’s highways.

I cite this number to put some of the outrageous claims made by the Left into perspective. To listen to their rhetoric, you’d believe that our efforts in Iraq are a bloody disaster with few parallels in history. But the fact is that more Americans are going to die on our roads this Labor Day weekend than we’ve lost in the occupation of Iraq.

Unfortunately, there is no "total perspective vortex" that we could dump liberals into.

Mr. Peters also has something to say about a certain bunch of poseurs:

When someone who has never served in uniform, who will never serve in uniform, whose children will never serve in uniform, whose relatives don’t serve in uniform, and who doesn’t even know—or want to know—anyone who actually serves in uniform tells you that they’re speaking on behalf of our troops, you know you’ve met an Olympic-level hypocrite, a vampire sucking the blood of America’s best.

I must say that when I was in the Army the thing that I found most annoying (to put it mildly) was the mob of pro-communist traitors group of pacifists that had parked themselves outside the front gate of Fort Benning to whine that we were teaching members of the Salvadoran Army to hunt down and kill murder the marxist murderers local agrarian reformers.

The left was and continues to use the right of civilized discourse as a means of bringing about the end of civilization itself.

Those who do not scruple to exploit our soldiers as a political tool—against the wishes and convictions of the soldiers themselves—and who previously had no time for the sort of “inferior” human being who was “foolish” enough to join our military, deserve a taste of reality, a first-hand introduction to the cruelty of the world beyond our shores.

They won’t get it, of course. Because our troops are overseas fighting to protect them. And even the terrorists don’t think the liberal-arts faculty lounge is important enough to bomb.

I think we should create a reservation for hardcore Islamists, a Talibanistan, to serve as a macrowolfpit that we could dump liberals in so they could receive a first hand view of some of the evils that they insist on denying.

Ralph Peters has one more thing to say about the left:

The American Left is out of ideas, out of morals and out of simple decency. All they can do is to shout, lie and pretend to care about those American citizens—our troops, inner-city minorities and the average working man and woman—for whom they don’t give a tiny shred of a damn.

Absolutely God-damned right.