NYET, NYET, WANKETTES!

Mark Steyn:

As usual, the Times stories are written in the fey, more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger tone that’s a shoo-in come Pulitzer time:

“Individually, these are stories of local crimes, gut-wrenching postscripts to the war for the military men, their victims and their communities. Taken together, they paint the patchwork picture of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak.”

“Patchwork picture,” “quiet phenomenon.”… Yes, yes, but exactly how quiet is the phenomenon? How patchy is the picture? The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan either “committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one.” The “committed a killing” formulation includes car accidents.

Go, Blogosphere!:

It was the work of minutes for the Powerline Web site’s John Hinderaker to discover that the “quiet phenomenon” is entirely unphenomenal: It didn’t seem to occur to the Times to check whether the murder rate among recent veterans is higher than that of the general population of young men. It’s not.

Au contraire, the columnist Ralph Peters calculated that Iraq and Afghanistan vets are about one-fifth as likely to murder you as the average 18-to-34-year-old American male. Better yet, the blogger Iowahawk meticulously drew his own “patchwork picture” of another “quiet phenomenon”: the Denver newspaper columnist arrested for stalking, the Cincinnati TV reporter facing child-molestation charges, the Philadelphia anchorwoman who went on a violent drunken rampage. As Iowahawk’s one-man investigative unit wondered:

“Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence that America’s newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters?”

Steyn offers some historical context–you remember ‘context’, don’t you?:

Seventy-five years ago, in February 1933, the Oxford Union passed a famous resolution, by an overwhelming margin, that “this House would under no circumstances fight for its King and country.” [...]

So the debate and its resolution sent a message to Britain’s enemies: As Churchill saw it, the vote was a “disgusting symptom” of the enervation of the ruling elites. Clifford May sees that same syndrome today around the Western world, but, in fact, it’s worse than that.

It is amazing how soon after they swore not to fight for their country they found themselves fighting for their very lives. Amazing–but axiomatic.

Nor would Barack Obama’s pledge to prostrate himself before Iran’s dictators and beg them not to kick America anymore yeild any better results than Neville Chamberlain obtained in Berlin.

I’m going to let some of you in on an open secret. After Vietnam, some of us said “Never Again”.

Never again would we fight a war in “Don’t Win–But Don’t Lose!”-style.

Never again would we dishonorably sell-out an ally who had depended on our word.

Never again would we let the Legacy Liars Club control the narrative.

Never again would we let an isolated abuse be used to tar the entire military.

Never again would we let returning soldiers be spit upon.

Never again would we let millions of veterans be portrayed as dangerous psychopaths in order to further an anti-war, anti-America agenda.

And, above all, never again would we let Democrats, leftists and liberals lose a war in Washington and on television that our troops had already taken the trouble to win on the ground.

And by ‘never’, I mean never.

Never.

NEVER.