Great Observation - A DFLer

Great Observation - A DFLer acquaintance of mine said in a different (DFL-dominated) forum the other day about the rescue of Private Lynch "the soldiers were going up against no opposition!", as if that impugned the rescue effort.

I responded in my usual style - verbosely. My main retort; That's right, Mr. Armchair General. Special Operations go sooooo much better when you charge, Black Hawk Down-style, into a hail of gunfire.

The guys from Powerline say it so much more elegantly:

isn't it somewhat ironic that the same people who criticized the Pentagon for supposedly underestimating Iraqi resistance early in the war, when the offensive was supposedly "stalled," are now equally quick to say that the Army needn't have sent armed soldiers to rescue Lynch, but should have strolled up the hospital and rung the doorbell on the assumption that there would be no Iraqi soldiers in sight?

The DFL acquaintance - an anti-war activist from the sixties and as soft on Iraq as he is about his own middle these days - also referred to Private Lynch, a soldier in the US Army, as "Miss Congeniality". I tried to imagine what would have happened had a Republican said any such thing about a woman in any other field.

Posted by Mitch at June 3, 2003 03:38 PM