You might like to think that the Courier carries this moron to prove there's someone the editors can point to who's so far out to the right that they, by comparison, appear centrist. Then you look at the original ("Going Wobbly," May 10), compare it against the Courier's changes and the choice of headline, and it's hard not to conclude that the editors think Mike Reagan isn't quite right-wing enough and they need to punch him up a bit.
What's interesting is that Reagan's tortured-pretzel logic and bug-crazy hysteria is so easy to see for what it is, you gotta wonder why the Courier editors don't see it as well.
There are plenty of sane writers on the right to choose from, and that's the path to credibility for the Courier. Do the editors care?
For readers of the Daily Courier in Prescott, Arizona. Comment and discuss. Be nice, now.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
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I encourage you to share your own views and experience with me and other readers. How you do that matters, and I'm committed to maintaining a place where readers and commenters can feel safe from adolescent BS. So here's the deal:
There are two kinds of anonymous comments: those by people who have a genuine fear of revenge from the dark side, and those from darksiders just hiding to avoid accountability. You may post comments anonymously, but I reserve the right to treat anonymous comments as found items that belong to me and do with them as I see fit.
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Mike Reagan is yet another chickenhawk: that is to say, someone who believes strongly in using our military to crush opposing factions in the world and yet, he himself "had other things to do at the time" and never served.
ReplyDeleteIs this hair-splitting? If you've ever:
1. felt your sphinter crinkle as rounds went past your K-pot
2. considered that its good that the civilians boss the guys with the guns in our country
3. realized that the job of these civilians is not to piss away our troop's lives to solve problems they weren't man enough to solve on their own
You may have come to the realization that we are fighting the wrong war against way more than our actual enemy.
No Iraqis attacked our country on 9/11. No WMA's have ever been found in Iraq. The Iraqi leadership was from the complete opposite side of the Shia/Sunni dogfight as Al-Queda. They aren't now.
And, as I've been pointing this out: Mike Reagan cashed another paycheck for providing ideological reasons to stay in Iraq, fighting the wrong fight.
A much larger paycheck than he would have received had he ever stood in harm's way in uniform.
-Andrew Johnson-Schmit, vet
1LT, IN