From whiny kids to conservatives to . . . Chickenhawks?
I'm sure we've all seen the article on a study from Berkeley that whiny kids grow up to be conservatives. [OK, so Berkeley's not a "normal" American community.] But do they also grow up to be Chickenhawks?
Their responses to Operation Yellow Elephant's invitations to consider military service, "Be A Man! Enlist!" certainly sound whiny. Look at Jonathan Bruno, President of the Oberlin College Republicans. He posted the complete text of his response to Operation Yellow Elephant as the second comment. Click here.
Also consider the "Chickenhawk counter-arguments" in wikipedia and the Young America's Foundation "Chickenhawk Talking Points."
I think they're protesting a bit too much. Isn't that a definition of whiny?
Pussies.
Update: Here's OYE's response to Yankee Sailor (Comment #5, 5:57 p.m.). Our response is Comment is #2 (03-25-2006 07:49 a.m.)
posted by Karl @ 3/20/2006 04:26:00 PM
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Ben Domenech has some insightful commentary on this matter on his new Washington Post blog, Red America:
"It's always better to just let kids be kids and keep the psychologists out of the way - to follow the dictum of an aging hippie couple I know who, despite their pacifist beliefs, still let their boys run around playing army with sticks made into guns. After all, someone has to defend America."
Someone DOES have to defend America. Just not Ben.
Conservative Washington Post blogger Ben Domenech is 24 years old yet is not in Iraq? I'm confused. Are you sure he's not in Iraq? That makes no sense.
Off topic, or speaking of Ben Domenech....
Ben Domenech, 24 year old, should be the subject of two googlebombs by all bloggers.
The goal is to make the first google result for Ben be a link to goarmy.com, and the second google result for Ben be a link to Operation Yellow Elephant.
On odd days, bloggers mentioning Ben Domenech should googlebomb him with http://goarmy.com. On even days, bloggers mentioning Ben Domenech should googlebomb him with http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/
Today is an odd day, so I have googlebombed him with http://goarmy.com
I Thought This Horse Was Dead
(I just thought to myself that Ben was a great candidate for recruitment, and now that I've come here to mention it, I see you guys are way ahead of me!)
And he quit the Post before I could even send an invitation.
On the other hand, is that the kind of courage and dedication we want wearing the uniform in Iraq?
L.J.-
And, thinking positively, if he at least gives the military a try, he may very well discover something good within himself that he didn't know was there.
And even if it doesn't work out for him, he at least has the comfort of knowing that he, unlike so many others, was man enough to sign up and take a chance. That's why OYE thanks those not accepted for enlistment for stepping forward.
And I, for one, would respect his opinions a bit more for having done that.
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