The Wasted Valor of the Navy SEALs

[Geee]

American Thinker:

Last week, 30 American service personnel, including 22 Navy SEALs, died when their helicopter was shot down by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.

The event was big media news, but it will soon be forgotten by the public as just another bit of media content right along with the death of Amy Winehouse or the British riots or raising the debt limit to an obscene $16 trillion.

The fact is that the SEALs died in vain, and their valor was squandered by a nation led by incompetents and craven political hacks that have no idea how to win the war in Afghanistan after a decade of trying.

There is something sickeningly wrong with a country that sends it finest, fittest, most disciplined young men into combat for ten years straight while legions of welfare cheats and stock-market Ponzi schemers lounge about and the government borrows trillions from their yet-unborn grandchildren.

There is something sickeningly wrong when honorable, valorous, disciplined, elite men are sent to their deaths by an effete commander-in-chief who spent his own youth not parading at Annapolis, fast-roping out of helicopters, or crawling through the mud under barbed wire during live-fire training exercises, but rather, according to his own admission in his autobiography, smoking marijuana, snorting cocaine, contemplating shooting heroin with a needle, and hanging out with Marxists, radical blacks, and structural feminists so as not to appear to be a "sell-out."

President Obama could not pass a background check to be a $12-an-hour deputy sheriff in a county jail, let alone become a Navy SEAL, but it is he who commands them to their deaths.

The truth is that Obama has no idea what to do in Afghanistan. His only strategy is to blame the war on his predecessor and engage in electorally driven propaganda -- like the fake "withdrawal" of American forces that supposedly began this summer.

Consequently the war continues to drag on, justified by empty and unexamined platitudes, like "they are fighting for our freedom" or "we need to keep Afghanistan from becoming a terrorist base."

If Afghanistan is so crucial to our freedom, then let's start conscripting able-bodied young men and women off the welfare rolls and send them there. Let's start conscripting students from Harvard, Yale, and Brown and send them over there. We'll find out really quickly if Afghanistan is a true security threat or not, won't we?

Afghanistan has not been a base of terrorist operations for nearly a decade now. Theoretically, it could become such a base in the future, but theoretically so could Canada (or Dearborn for that matter). But we're not sending SEALs on raids to Toronto because of what might happen, are we? If Afghanistan becomes a terrorist base in the future -- like Pakistan or Yemen or Somalia are right now -- we'll deal with it then.

[Valin]

The fact is that the SEALs died in vain, and their valor was squandered

 

Valor wasted? I think the good doctor is doing his impersonation of what an idiot sounds like.

 

Afghanistan has not been a base of terrorist operations for nearly a decade now. Theoretically, it could become such a base in the future, but theoretically so could Canada (or Dearborn for that matter). But we're not sending SEALs on raids to Toronto because of what might happen, are we? If Afghanistan becomes a terrorist base in the future -- like Pakistan or Yemen or Somalia are right now -- we'll deal with it then

 

See my above reply

[Argyle58]

Valin. I have to agree that there is no such thing as wasted Valor. Say what you will about the leadership that sent these men to their deaths in a poorly planned operation, but do not impugn the character and actions of these warriors.

[Valin]

Valin. I have to agree that there is no such thing as wasted Valor. Say what you will about the leadership that sent these men to their deaths in a poorly planned operation, but do not impugn the character and actions of these warriors.

 

 

In war Sh*t Happens. Sometimes the bad guys win.

[Pepper]

Valin! Geee! Argyle58!

 

The author is rightly angry but there was no wasted Valor of these brave Navy SEALs. They volunteered, they were trained, and they were sent on a mission. They died doing their mission for our country, giving the ultimate sacrifice, leaving behind family and friends, and us citizens, all profoundly proud of these heroes and now immensely sad.

 

You can make the same argument for any past war that our American armed forces fought in, died in, returned home wounded.

 

We could look around us at our current sick society in its sad condition and ask as well, they died for this? However, each generation has to fight to retain its moral foundation or renew that foundation, lest future generations be lost to the savages.

 

These brave men lived that by that moral code. The fact that we have immoral leaders and a corrupt society does not diminish their courage, their sacrifice, and thus demands our greatest gratitude.