Credentials
Posted By Russ Emerson on July 6, 2005 at 11:20 am
[This post was originally published 21Jun05. Due to the topicality today, I thought I’d bump it up.]
[There are updates – see below.]
Neat-o. An actual lefty koolaid drinker, right here on my very own site.
Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone from the anti-American anti-war camp had found this site accidentally — it happens all the time, and some occasionally drop a turd or two in the comments — but this fellow actually came here from my mini-bio page at BlogsForBush. He came here looking for a fight to pick.
As is so often the case with the anti-American anti-war crowd, he rolled out what he thought would be a rhetorical nuke: the tired and discredited “chickenhawk” argument — questioning my “credentials,” my qualification to offer opinions about the war. I guess the obvious military theme here escaped his notice, and I called him on it.
Not content to leave well enough alone, however, he decided to leave another steaming pile in the comments. I figured it deserved an up-front response. I know it will fail utterly to convince him, as he apparently arrived at his current opinions shortly before turning off his brain, but a response is nonetheless warranted.
Read on and, as always, feel free to comment.