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2006-01-26 Home Front: Politix

LTC Steve Russell answers LA Times "I don't support the troops"

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Posted by Sherry 2006-01-26 16:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I am thankful I do not have to look into Mr. Steins mirror.

As am I as well. What a piece of kak.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-26 16:59|| 2006-01-26 16:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd be willing to bet that Stein's career is over. He'll be selling shoes or possible fetching coffee by next year.

LTC Russell is our "Army of Steve" guy, right?

Posted by Penguin 2006-01-26 17:19|| 2006-01-26 17:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Penguin __ get serious.

This will mean a promotion to the NYT as OOE - Offensice Opinion Editor.

Posted by Jomong Craiter9134 2006-01-26 17:25|| 2006-01-26 17:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Penguin -- yes, this is our "Army of Steve" guy. Assumed he was in Iraq with the 4th Infantry, but seems not.
"LTC Russell commanded Task Force 1/22nd Infantry in Iraq (bagged Saddam) and is currently Chief of Tactics at the Infantry School."

Posted by Sherry 2006-01-26 17:32|| 2006-01-26 17:32|| Front Page Top

#5 My goodness, that's quite a response. Thank you Colonel Steve.

Penguin: the 'Amry of Steve' started here as an in-joke (two moderators and several regulars of the name). When we learned that LTC Steve was, well, a Steve, we were proud to include him in the ranks. And based on what he wrote today, along with the kind of man he's been all along, I'm proud, as well as not worthy, to share the name.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-01-26 17:39|| 2006-01-26 17:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell, I may have to change my name to Steve after this response.

Posted by BH 2006-01-26 18:04|| 2006-01-26 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 The Colonel is right, but he is wrong in his rebuttal, in that he is not the issue.

He is an honorable man in an honorable cause, and such men need little justification--it is obvious to those who know and respect them, both who they are, and what they do and have done. Their carriage alone speaks to their personal pride, even without earned rank and decorations on display.

That is, the subject here is not the honorable men. Not in the rebuttal, and not in the original story.

The subject is the dishonorable man. The man who must explain his cowardice, who rationalizes his spite and hatred as a noble cause, and who seeks profit in agitation--in defiling that which is honorable and beloved.

Such dishonorable men learn early on that they do not have the intestinal fortitude to be great and noble. And thus they are consigned to never following the paths of glory, but only to walk in the gutter, unheralded, uncelebrated and unremembered. It fills them with spite, which they easily convert to contempt and the desire to blacken and corrupt that which is better than them.

Later, these dishonorable men, knowing they cannot truly challenge the honorable, pretend to be honorable themselves. They feign rank, commendation, and the scars of battle, so that they can brag of their imaginary achievements, and dispute the honor of others. Sometimes they even claim dishonorable acts, sacrificing their imaginary character to disabuse others; such as pretending to have committed war crimes, "which we all did."

But the sorriest comment that can be made about Joel Stein is that he is just the willing toady of his publisher. A publisher who is losing more and more money with the paradigm of the LA Times. A publisher who directed Stein to write something so offensive that it would give publicity to that failing leftist rag.

Given this assignment, at least it can be said that Stein wrote from the heart. Or at least the gall bladder, wherein resides the bile on which he chokes.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-26 18:07|| 2006-01-26 18:07|| Front Page Top

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