According to the right-wing nuts, you apparently can’t be liberal and love your child:
I think it is time for our gloves to come off. Many columnists around the country have “tip-toed†around the Sheehan controversy because they have respected the loss of her son. But now Ms. Sheehan is showing her true colors: Liberal activist, not loving mother.
Liberals: We Hate Our Children.
I’m liberal. I dearly love my two kids. I think my values and principles honor my children and their future, and their children’s future. I think my getting up in arms about certain things is protective of my kids.
Anger about injustice (however one defines it) spurns activism and comes from a place of love. I think Cindy Sheehan’s actions are quite primal really. She doesn’t express lengthy commentary about war srtategy or geo-political maneuvers; instead, she asks one simple question–For what noble cause did my son die? Her question is from her deep love of her son and his untimely death. I think a loving mother can ask questions like that.
Do you think Steve Darnell has kids? I wonder…
Laura, you’re absolutely right: A loving parent does have the right to ask what the so-called “noble cause” was that caused her son’s death. And NOBODY has the right to question her patriotism. I ceertainly wouldn’t. In fact, I’d kinda like to know too. I have a son who is closing in on Draft age, (he just turned 15) and now they are talking about extending our stay in Iraq until 2009. So far the given reasons have changed so many times that even the most ardent Republicans (at least the ones I speak to on a regular basis) are asking “what the Hell are we doing there, and why?” Cindy’s movement does not dishonor in any way the troops; qutie the contrary, we suport them. what we want is the impossible: the truth from Dubya.
While it may be unfortunatly necessary to do so on occasion, “dulce et decorum pro patria mori est” is simply a load of horse shit. I don’t tell any of the young’uns I know anything but the truth. Your experience is long on discomfort, anxiety, and boredom (you find out that boredom is GOOD) and short on dignity, pay, and kept promises.