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Greg Mitchell is a very silly man. Over the course of six years, he’s seen with his own two eyes how incredibly wrong the prevailing sentiment of “everyone” can be, and he’s decided to write about it.
The lesson he takes from it?
“Everyone” was wrong back then…but they’re absolutely correct now.
I think that’s a fair summary of his article. So tell me — how do people like this get dressed in the morning and start walking around?
On May 1, 2003, Richard Perle advised, in a USA Today Op-Ed, “Relax, Celebrate Victory.” The same day, exactly six years ago, President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq — with the now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner arrayed behind him in the war’s greatest photo op.
Chris Matthews on MSNBC called Bush a “hero” and boomed, “He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.” He added: “Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple.”
PBS’ Gwen Ifill said Bush was “part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan.” On NBC, Brian Williams gushed, “The pictures were beautiful. It was quite something to see the first-ever American president on a — on a carrier landing.”
Bob Schieffer on CBS said: “As far as I’m concerned, that was one of the great pictures of all time.” His guest, Joe Klein, responded: “Well, that was probably the coolest presidential image since Bill Pullman played the jet fighter pilot in the movie Independence Day. That was the first thing that came to mind for me.”
Everyone agreed the Democrats and antiwar critics were now on the run.
He then lunges in for the kill: The death toll on that date was such-and-such, and in the years since then it went up to so-and-so. Ergo, mission-not-accomplished.
Idiot.
What he has seen — what we all have seen — is a story as old as mankind itself. Tough, resourceful and strong warriors work in concert with each other, sacrificing their very lives to destroy something so that something else can be built on top of the ashes, that otherwise could not have been.
If the world spun sanely upon its axis, every May 1 would be a “Mission Accomplished” day and the banner would be hung in miniature form from every storefront, every lamppost, every house, with not a tincture of sarcasm or pejorative shadowing behind it. The troops were given a mission, they achieved it, and their commander thought it would be a good idea to hang up a banner and make them feel good.
The Hardcore MoveOn Left thinks they’ve metastasized this into a symbol of incompetence, by beating us over the head for six years with their absurd doctrine: Whatever isn’t free isn’t worth having. Nothing is “accomplished” anywhere if it involves sacrifice. Sacrifice is for suckers and losers. Nothing, anywhere, is available to sacrifice for anything else…except maybe the life of an unborn baby, America’s military readiness, and perhaps the careers of a few straight white guys. All other things are so sacred that they cannot be placed into marginal jeopardy — let alone sacrificed for any prize, no matter how precious that prize may be, or the other things that would depend on it.
That’s the message, apparently. Because that is the only mindset by which it makes any sense whatsoever to declare the mission something-besides-accomplished, on Mission Accomplished day. If you acknowledge even for a moment that there might be something heroic or noble about a soldier laying down his or her life for the success of a mission, whatever that mission might be, then the “Mission Accomplished” banner made perfect sense back then, does so now, and anyone heckling it in any way is a traitor.
So The Hard Left doesn’t believe in any of that.
They think missions are for suckers. People, inside the military or outside of it, aren’t really supposed to accomplish anything. (Except, perhaps, win elections, if they’re democrats.) Sacrificing your own life to make a mission accomplished, is unworthy of a banner, and in fact might very well make you a something of a schmuck, or a loser.
And they’re desperate to get the word out, and make sure everyone knows they feel that way.
Well, mission accomplished.
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