Little Green Footballs has reported on the latest left-wing lunacy from the incredibly popular Democrat website Daily Kos, the Internet force that nearly every presidential contender sought out for support. The diarist "professorfate" thinks Americans are not only a flock of sheep, but that they need an invasion and occupation on their own soil to get their empathy and their consciousness raised: "It only took one incredibly destructive Civil War to make the United States realize that - oh well - this is really not an activity in which one wants to engage in one’s homeland - better to do it in someone else’s country." (As LGF put it, "being invaded, slaughtered, and occupied is the only way we’ll become a nation of compassionate pacifists.")
As a nation the United States no longer has the remotest idea about what it really feels like to be part of a war zone. Americans have lost the empathy that is necessary to make an informed, meaningful, compassionate decision about whether or not war should be waged. While candidates fight over who has the required experience to properly oversee our republic’s international interests, none realize that none of them have ever felt what it is like to have war waged in their neighborhood and occupied by intruders. While they may claim to know when to wage wars and to know the horrors of war, they only know them intellectually. They can’t claim that they have emotionally felt them. No one who was born and raised in the United States can claim that and none can really feel it. We have allowed a Congress and an administration to encourage hate and to hi-jack our compassion. In fact, as a nation we have lost our compassion.
Unfortunately, America is at a point that to be able to really feel again, to regain that compassion, it needs to be invaded and occupied in the same way that we have invaded and occupied Iraq. Then there might be a greater chance that Americans will be more reluctant to accept the invasion of another country. Maybe seeing and feeling the same level of destruction that we have inflicted on Iraq, at least the American public will understand why invading another country is unconscionable except in the most dire circumstances - which means after that country has directly attacked the United States. And that has not happened since World War II.
Wouldn't it be interesting for the major media to put this question to the Democratic candidates. Wouldn't it make an interesting poll? What percentage of Americans agree with the Kosmonauts that we need to be invaded and occupied to raise our consciousness?
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.





















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KOS - Kooky Old Simpletons
March 18, 2008 - 11:59 ET by mattmWe were invaded, you friggin' dimwits!!! Ever hear of 9/11?
These people are just plain stupid. These compassionate, peace-loving flower children would have just sat by and watched Sadamned continue to murder and oppress his own people while supporting and enabling terrorism around the world. They are the same people whose pacifism lead to the deaths of millions at the hands of the Communists. This same pacifistic ideology is what prevented the Allies from stopping Hitler early on, which would have prevented the deaths of millions!
Pacifism Kills.
Get an occupation
March 18, 2008 - 15:54 ET by acumenAnd some Americans on our southern border might offer the argument America has been occupied for decades.
Up against the wall
March 18, 2008 - 12:05 ET by CobraManIf America WERE to be invaded, this KOok would be screaming for protection for he knows that, if we loose, he and his fellow idiots would be the first ones "up against the wall" for execution.
They don't really know that...
March 18, 2008 - 12:30 ET by ArcherBNo, they don't know that. They actually believe that they would be spared as they would be on the invader's side!
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary." Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Yep, the operate on that
March 18, 2008 - 12:37 ET by BDYep, the operate on that belief as they are not actually very worldly despite all the years spent eating Houmas, wearing sarapes, and drinking chai.
For instance. It is an article of faith today amongst the liberal 1960's refuse that I chat with from time to time that Vietnam is now being governed by the former members of the National Liberation Front who made up the VC in the 1960's. They believe the guys they supported in the Anti-war protests are now sitting in the seats of power in Hanoi and Ho Chi Mihn City.
Little do they know that most of the folks who made up the VC were rounded up after the war to allow the leadership in North Vietnam un-constrained rule over the south. In effect, they rounded up all the well trained guerrillas and eliminated them as they did not want a threat to their rule. The survivors fled amongst the boat people.
BD, I can attest to that. I
March 18, 2008 - 13:06 ET by bassndudeBD, I can attest to that. I met a kid in Denver, he was going to school with my daughter. His dad fought with the VC in Vietnam for some 15 years. At the end of the war, he loaded up his wife and kids a ran from Vietnam as fast as he could. How he ever got here is a mystery to me, but the fact that he had to leave his home land, in fear of his life and his families lives, sayes alot.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
You know
March 18, 2008 - 12:05 ET by candanceA lot of conservatives have the idea that liberals would be sorry if we actually did get invaded or we actually did become a communist state.
I don't think they would be sorry at all. They would be content with poverty and oppression as long as it snuffed out Christianity.
OH, YEAH THEY WOULD BE SORRY...
March 18, 2008 - 12:22 ET by danybhoyI know this is a somewhat radical viewpoint, but I get the idea that there would be some who would view most liberals/progressives as one with the enemy, & some of those people would be targeted by a few of the hardline 2nd Amendment/militia types. There would be some people who would fight the enemy, foreign & domestic.
I have heard/read things by some radical sections where this sort of thing has been mentioned, I hope it never happens. If this Nation goes to war, I want to be the road team everytime, fight the enemy there so you don't have to fight them here. Some don't seem to understand that concept though.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
Okay candance, that's your
March 18, 2008 - 12:29 ET by JerOkay candance, that's your over-broad generalization for the week. Are you sure you want to waste it on that statement?
Jer
all right Jer
March 18, 2008 - 12:30 ET by candanceNot all the liberals, but most of the Kos Kids.
Thanks for "narrowing"
March 18, 2008 - 12:40 ET by JerThanks for "narrowing".
Jer
Great catch Tim! These
March 18, 2008 - 12:13 ET by Gary P JacksonGreat catch Tim!
These people are beyond stupid. Yes, we need to be invaded by murderous thugs so we will not invade other countries. Really?
I would think most Americans would demand the President open up the "football" and start pressing buttons if we were actually invaded and occupied!
I can't even start to comprehend what makes the liberal mind tick! There is some sort of mental disorder that afflicts them. Unfortunately there are not enough rubber rooms to house them all.
I almost wish this country were invaded, too.
March 18, 2008 - 12:22 ET by R D HelmBecause maybe then, people would finally be snapped out of their complacency and realize, once and for all, the danger this country is truly in.
I think most people today are totally oblivious to it.
Theme for Election '08: I want my mommy!
Southern Border...
March 18, 2008 - 12:24 ET by azholmesSome would say we are being invaded. And they aren't all particularly friendly. The local newscasters in Phoenix are getting pretty good at pronouncing hispanic-hyphenated surnames these days.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor.
What a moron
March 18, 2008 - 12:35 ET by ArcherBYou'd think that with the view points these guys have on the world, they would not spew crap like this that actually contradicts their views. For example, I would like to say to this mental midget, "Yeah, because it's worked so well for the Palestinians (whom you think is the victim of invasion). Their compassion is legendary!"
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary." Ernesto "Che" Guevara
how typically ignorant
March 18, 2008 - 12:56 ET by wizardjrSerbia and Bosnia have been invaded and occupied multiple times - oh the compassion they show. Russia was invaded and occupied a number of times, particularly WW II - oh the compassion flowing from the USSR which was run by Russia. The Middle East has been a battleground for at least 5,000 years - oh the compassion of throwing bombs into school buses.
Once again, this is all about 'feelings' and not about thought and intellect. The thoughtful men fought Hitler, the emoting men (Chamberlain, et al) tried to kiss his butt so he wouldn't invade them (and how well that worked).
Hitler's the worst example in modern times
March 18, 2008 - 13:31 ET by ThisnThatGermany lost WWI. Hitler was a foot-soldier in that war. Did he, or the Germans, become "compassionate" and reluctant to invade another country as a result of that experience.
History lesson results for DKO -- you flunked!
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Even the Kosmonauts can't believe it
March 18, 2008 - 13:05 ET by jbeeebDid you read the comments on the Daily Kos site, even many of the regulars there can't believe it. (BTW I think he forgot 9-11 and the attack on US territory at Pearl Harbor from his list).
Maybe we need to reinstitute the draft (j/k) so even the liberals can find out what it is like to sacrifice for the freedoms that we now enjoy. I think they would find that the decisions to put people in harms way don't come quite so easy.
"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -George Orwell
BTW- If we are fighting for access to oil why am I paying $3.50 a gallon?
His/her conclusion missed
March 18, 2008 - 13:17 ET by JasonPHis/her conclusion missed the mark. After any invasion, the invaded country is more likely to adopt a 'never again' mentality and employ preemptive war strategies to prevent any further attack on its homeland and citizens.
As LGF put it, "being
March 18, 2008 - 13:27 ET by dmntd1As LGF put it, "being invaded, slaughtered, and occupied is the only way we’ll become a nation of compassionate pacifists."
Interesting. Being invaded has not created compassionate pacifists in Iraq, Israel (and Palestine, for you anti-semites *grin* ), Afghanistan, Turkey, ummm.... where else? Shall we go back to Viet Nam? WWII? WWI? the shores of Tripoli, where our brave Marines fought their first overseas battles?
I really think that questioning others' masculinity is a game probably better left to people who haven't had more cock in and out of them than a Tyson Chicken regional distribution center. AceOfSpades 06162007
Oh boy
March 18, 2008 - 13:32 ET by RainsfordBecause McCain's years in a Vietnamese prison camp was all sunshine, rainbows and puppies, right?
This truly illustrates the
March 18, 2008 - 13:58 ET by JerryThis truly illustrates the myopic world view of the liberal mind. To them, our liberation of Iraq is no different than Hitler's invasion of Poland. Our sacrafice on the beaches of Normandy is no different from Sadaam's butchering of the Kurds. Absolutely mind boggling.
It will be this person's form of "compassion" that leads to the United States being invaded and conquered by any one of the would-be world dicators that dominate today's landscape.
And after all the real men had given their lives to protect their families and country, pansies like this "professorfate" would be rounded up and summarily executed. Professorfate would find that all of his threats of reporting their them to the UN if they dared put panties on his head, would only fall on the deaf ears of his be-headded like-minded commrades.
Lastly, dear Professor, any FIRST GRADER knows that you want to keep the battle front as far from your homeland as possible. It does not take a civil War nor require an enlightened professor's intellect to realize this fact.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Heartless
March 18, 2008 - 14:29 ET by nkviking75It's a shame ol' Markos can't be moved back through time and space so he could do his blogging in Saddam's Iraq or under the Afghanistan of the Taliban. Maybe he'd have more compassion for the people we freed.
Besides the fact that we liberated two countries, there is a mountain of anecdotal evidence of Americans' compassion for the people of these two countries. It won't take much to find stories of sick and injured children brought here to receive medical treatment they'd never receive at home, or American military writing home about the needs they see and having their neighbors inundate them with clothing, school supplies, and more for the people they've freed. There's more, but you get the point.
It has to be said that things are far from perfect in both places, but it also must be said that both are much better off than they were. Ignoring the enslaved Iraqi and Afghani people would have been far less compassionate that what we did. For sheer heartlessness, there's nothing like a liberal.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
maybe
March 18, 2008 - 15:42 ET by UndercoverConservativemaybe, he's not that far off after all. Though not for the reasons the writer imagines.
A real invasion would wake people up to what "persecution" and "hate" *really* is. It's not having to stand in line for your welfare check, it's not someone having an opinion you disagree with.
An invasion would mean people have to rely on themselves, and focus on important stuff. Having nothing to worry about but what gender you wish to be percieved as is a symptom of idle wealth. Freedom of speech would come with risk-speaking out against an invading force would actually have the consequences KOSpots like to pretend they suffer for their continued paranoid leftist rantings-paranoid musings they add to spice up their pampered, danger free lives. Makes 'em feel important.
People wouldn't be putting their money where their mouth was, they'd be putting *everything* on the line. Most of the spoiled minority agitators would be up against the invaders' firing squad wall. Race haters would have to hang up their rhetoric or be wiped out. United We Stand would become more than empty or mostly forgotten words. Play actors and pop music mouthpieces would find little food or help given since their lawyers and money would be useless. The'd soon learn how many *real* friends their arrogance has left them.
Those with strong faith would have that to sustain them when everything seemed too dire to continue. They'd continue on with their inspirations of greatness while the "self=God" folk would mostly crumble when their logic told them that victory could not be achieved.
Freedom would once again be refreshed by the blood of patriots and those who survived would have earned their freedom and would value it instead of seeing it as a curse to be thrown away.
"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".
Becoming a nation of
March 18, 2008 - 15:54 ET by rbosqueBecoming a nation of "compassionate pacifists" WILL lead to an invasion and then we'll either be slaves or dead. Those Kos kooks can leave the country, we have no need for sissies.
The KOS liberals would be
March 18, 2008 - 16:39 ET by SlicksterThe KOS liberals would be the first to crawl to my base, hide between my legs and demand I save their cry baby cowardly asses. ( I would, then I would turn my M-60 on them).