WTFAH?
“Eric Cantor’s Foreign-Policy
Ideas Would Consign Us to Perpetual War”, at least that is the
headline of the post by Conor Friedersdorf.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/eric-cantors-foreign-policy-ideas-would-consign-us-to-perpetual-war/284028/
If this is true and as of yet I have
nothing to indicate that it is false, it is a pretty damming position
to take, but not really that unusual from someone who them self or
for that matter their children have never been volunteered (Drafted)
or just out right volunteered to go in Harms Way. It is easier to
send someone else off to the unknown, then for you or your love ones
to sent off on that journey, especially given that there is a chance
that you might be returning home in a flag draped container via Dover
AFB. (AKA be the first on your block have your son brought home in a
box)
For me it is a little more than a bit
upsetting. But it is pretty much what would I expect from an
individual who so far has spent their entire adult life either in
school, or working in the office (his fathers company) or in the
office of an elected official, or in an elected office.
As I said it is pretty much what I
would expect, but it is not what I am willing to accept.
I am sure that he is smart (went to
some of the right schools), that he loves his wife and his children
and that they love him after all he is husband and father, but that
can be said about many men now and in the past. Eric might even like
the dog and the cat, and the dog likes him back and the cat just
plain tolerates him (its a cat thing). I suspect that his is
considered to be a pillar of the community. Enough of the voters in
Virginia 7th Congressional district have repeatedly
consider him an honorable man (they voted for him, of course with
only 58 percent of popular vote it appears some of the shine to
disappear) For that matter he has convinced enough of his fellow
party representatives make him not only Republican House Minority
Whip, but the Republican House Majority Leader. All of this before
he turned 50 years old, I sure his parents are proud.
Just like the many citizens of Rome
who at one time considered Marcus Brutus to be an honorable man,
until that fateful day, I suspect that Eric Cantor is not that far
behind Marcus Brutus in that his lack of honor is showing more and
more each day. (Beware the idles of January John Boehner maybe one
should just quit while you are on top).
So Citizen, the question before us is
that at the end of the day do we want or need an individual who would
consign the Fathers and Mothers, Sons and Daughters, Brother and
Sisters of this country via his Foreign Policy Ideas to Perpetual War?
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