Where I'm From, Those Are Fightin' Words...But These Types Aren't Worth It

One of the things I love most about East Texas is the fact it's a salt-of-the-earth, grassroots kind of place. It's where one can find some of the most patriotic citizens in this great country of ours.

A long way from East Texas is Los Angeles, California, which we all know as a much different place, with very different values and concerns. Those conflicted ideas and perspectives might explain the viewpoint of this article. It seems the columnist Joel Stein is a self-described pacifist and has gone where spineless Washington democrats and other goof-ball wackos fear to tread: criticizing the military.

I'm not concerned about how people see our war in Iraq anymore. I don't care so much about the war on terrorism, either. I think discovering the truth about where we stand in this conflict is next to impossible. It depends on who might be telling the story. It's messed up, but we're there and that's the way it is. We can't forget about the hundreds and thousands of men and women who are on the battlefield right now. They may not want to be there. Then again they may. While we're busy bickering about the right or wrongness of this conflict, they're in it and pay the price daily.

I think the worst thing about this entire conflict is the fact that we have the resources to complete the job. But rather than use them, our politicians listen too much to guys like Joel Stein and are too concerned about what they might write about them.

What do you say to someone like Joel Stein? He admits he's well-to-do. He's never served in the military and probably doesn't know many who ever did. He's like so many in our country that haven't connected the sacrifices of our forefathers to the liberty and prosperity that is enjoyed today. He might just be a little too smart for his own good, too. In East Texan vernacular, he's a smart-aleck. He meant to say those things likely to get people who sympathize with him to rally around the cause. That's fine, too. He's got the right to say them.

As for how East Texans, and other salt-of-the-earth Americans, might see Joel Stein, they'd just as soon rip him apart, limb-by-limb as look at him. Then again, he's just not worth it.

I wonder who he's going to call the next time LA goes up in flames? It just might be one of those troops he doesn't support.