In one of my regular reads, the Jewish World Review, I found a passage in a column about the Cindy Sheehan story, currently occupying so much mainstream media space because it’s an anti-Bush and an anti-Iraq story, which grabbed my attention because of a quote he used from another columnist.
The writer, the Washington Times Editor-in-Chief Wesley Pruden (but writing for Jewish World Review), quoted Mackubin Thomas Owens in Owens’ National Review column (need a map?) called “Sterile Irrelevance” and as usual, I like to go to the source of the quote and possibly find my own favorite passages, package it my own way, and relay the information or sentiment to you as I would in my own unique way.
But after looking I found that no, Wesley Pruden got the best quotes out of the column and plunked ‘em down better than I could. So I’ll just provide that snippet and point you, as I now have, in the right directions despite the fact that the intro to this thing is now longer than the snippet…
Mackubin Thomas Owens, a Vietnam veteran and associate dean of the Naval War College, observes in National Review that the Athenians second-guessed every decision their leaders made in the Peloponnesian War; Lincoln had to contend with Radical Republicans who thought he was a bit of a weenie as the commander in chief.
“But neither the Athenians nor Lincoln had to contend with a smug, detached mainstream media,” he writes, and ” … it is hard to conduct military operations when a chorus of eunuchs is describing every action we take as a violation of everything for which America stands, a quagmire in which we are doomed to failure, and a waste of American lives.” Certain earlier presidents would agree.
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