One of the widely recognized shameful behaviors of our past would be the disgraceful behavior of the ant-war left spitting on soldiers as they returned from Vietnam.
At least, I thought it was recognized as shameful. I thought that lesson was learned and would not be repeated.
I was disabused of that notion a couple of weeks ago via a report on one of the fringe left's current means of protest. That involves the group "Code Pink", supporters of Cindy Sheehan - who was in her own right spitting on soldiers by jumping in front of every microphone she can find to assert that the soldiers are killers who are not fighting for a noble cause and that our enemy are "freedom fighters". It seems that Code Pink has started protesting outside of Walter Reed Army Hospital, where returning injured war veterans are treated. Code Pink chooses Friday nights, when the veterans and their families leave the hospital by bus for a meal, to stage their most vocal protests including laying out fake caskets on the sidewalk. They want the veterans to know that they were injured for nothing. Nice.
And I was disabused of the notion that the left learned to be civilized again today. I was listening to a radio interview of a National Guard chopper pilot who spent most of the last week airlifting 1700 people off of rooftops to safety in New Orleans. The pilot got to go home after that and expected a good reaction. Instead, he got picked at by haters and blamers who wanted to know why he "hadn't done more". The pilot said that the attacks took him right back to his experience coming home from Vietnam, which took him 25 years to get over. Nice.
Both activities boil down to one common thing to me - the left's 2005 version of spitting on the troops.
It was despicable then. It's despicable now. Cut it out.
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