Editor,
I am writing this letter to respond to Gregg Ozimek's letter defending his beloved liberal media and his ideas about American foreign policy.
He stated that the reason that the media do not report on the positive aspects coming from Iraq is that the media, like everyone else, saw the invasion as an "aggression by an empire."
OK, if the mainstream media is not biased toward the left, put aside Iraq for a minute. When was it the last time we heard anything - good or bad - about Afghanistan? The last thing I remember hearing about Afghanistan was the attempt to make uproar about some U.S. soldiers mistakenly cremating some dead Taliban fighters. Months and months before this, the only time we heard anything about Afghanistan was when the Taliban or al Qeada forces surprised our soldiers in an ambush.
Gee, no news is good news any more - it seems to me that bad news is the only news anymore.
Now, does Ozimek and the liberal media see this country's toppling of the Taliban as aggression by an empire? If he and the media are part of the extreme left wing, like Cindy Sheehan and her goons, they probably do.
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Ozimek and much of the liberal media are what are called pacifists. In Ozimek's letter, he described how we would lose the war in Iraq because Iraqis' loyalty to country triumphs American training, and he gives examples of the American war of independence and the Vietnam War. But why is it that the British did not triumph against our colonies? The biggest reason is because they quit and went home - thankfully, for our case.
The United States equipped and trained the South Vietnamese, but North Vietnam eventually took over. Why? Because this country's liberal pacifist sect, including Walter Cronkite, won the public-relations battle, and we quit and went home.
Now the extreme-left Democrats want to quit and run for home, yet they cannot put together the guts to come out and vote for it when they have the chance, due to their political ambitions for the future. What a joke.
Pacifist liberals love to preach to those of us who support the war that if we really do care about the conflict, why are we not all over there fighting?
Well, maybe we should be over there, including pacifists like Ozimek. If Ozimek is such an honorable and pacifist liberal, he should be helping his cause more himself, not just giving condemning speeches on American foreign policy.
I believe he should go to Iraq himself and see if he can help free his four pacifists cronies that were captured this week by al-Zarqawi's henchmen. If he is so against the war, why isn't he over there supporting the pacifists by standing in front of our tanks and getting in the way of the empire?
Darren Wood
UNM alumnus
