Soldiers are babies, teenagers seeking abortion, not so much
February 6, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
I’ve done my fair share of Shep-bashing, and his Katrina coverage was deplorable. But he did at least partially redeem himself today, when he challenged the vacuous Naomi Wolf on her “get our babies out of Iraq” comment. (Click through to see the video.) He replied, “Last time I checked, everybody over there is at least eighteen.”
The left persists in its attempts to infantilize our military. The fact is that there are no poor kids fighting the war. To borrow from an older post, these aren’t babies. They’re adults.
Adults who voluntarily enlisted have been sent to war. Adults who are old enough to marry, sign contracts, vote, go to prison and not the juvenile justice system if they break the law, voluntarily joined the military knowing that they might have to fight in a war even before 9/11, and those who joined afterward certainly knew it. These are not children. These are not kids. They are adults. The fact that they are not legally permitted to drink alcohol is just stupid nanny statism, given the other rights and responsibilities that they have.
Naomi Wolf parrots the anti-war liberal line that our soldiers are victims. I was not able to find a quote from her on teenaged abortion and parental consent, so I can’t call her out specifically on hypocrisy, but I can certainly call out her fellow travelers. The same feminists who don’t want “men in suits” telling women or girls of any age what to do with their bodies (or their babies) support Code Pink and other anti-war groups in telling men and women of legal age that they incapable of a rational decision to join the military.
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