Has Charlie Sykes encouraged his daughter, who some months ago was enroute to Australia, to join the Army? Or the Marines?
Because given his enthusiasm for us keeping up the fight in Iraq -- for what, exactly, he won't define -- one would hope he would.
Because if Charlie -- who's fond of writing about the slovenliness of today's youth and the suckitude of today's parents (take it from a thrice-married man!) -- hasn't encouraged his daughter to enlist he really shouldn't be writing stuff like this:
So, will we decide to send in the additional forces and win this war... or is it acceptable to turn over the province [Anbar] to Al Qaeda? And what do Dems like Russ Feingold have to say about the presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq?
Ah, those magical "additional forces," wherever they are. Just so long as they're someone else's kids, right, Chuck?
And if Chuck hasn't encouraged his daughter to put her life on the line, why does he insist that our presence in Iraq is of world-historical importance, citing this drivel from Victor Davis Hanson:
Our current crisis is not yet a catastrophe, but a real loss of confidence of the spirit. The hard-won effort of the Western Enlightenment of some 2,500 years that, along with Judeo-Christian benevolence, is the foundation of our material progress, common decency, and scientific excellence, is at risk in this new millennium.
But our newest foes of Reason are not the enraged Athenian democrats who tried and executed Socrates. And they are not the Christian zealots of the medieval church who persecuted philosophers of heliocentricity. Nor are they Nazis who burned books and turned Western science against its own to murder millions en masse.
No, the culprits are now more often us. In the most affluent, and leisured age in the history of Western civilization--never more powerful in its military reach, never more prosperous in our material bounty--we have become complacent, and then scared of the most recent face of barbarism from the primordial extremists of the Middle East.
It's hard to believe that Chuck could really believe this and not encourage his daughter to enlist, right?
By the by, how silly of an ass is Victor Davis Hanson, a classics scholar whom wannabe intellectuals like Chuck and Patrick McIlheran view as some sort of oracle? He's so silly he wrote this:
The Corner on National Review Online: there really will come a time, believe it or not, when a future American President baffled and paralyzed by the latest insanity from the Middle East--whether an Iranian nuke or a Syrian invasion of Lebanon or another Middle East war or the usual assassination and killing of Americans--will ask former president George Bush II for advice, as a then fawning media will look back to his past "toughness" and "determination" when under fire
Bartender! Give me what Victor's having!
The Brawler wonders: Has Charlie encouraged his producer Joe Scialfa to enlist? I know he just got engaged and all, but hell, his fiance could enlist too.
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