The American Spectator

Sean Fama br> Front Royal, VA /p> p> Methinks you doth protest too much, Mr. Corry. Protest too much and by the way, where is your solution ? By way of omitting your solution, you reveal yourself as a liberal disguised as a conservative with a yellow streak down your back a meter wide. Of course, commies like yourself oppose the war against Iraq in any case where American arms would triumph, because just like your Fuerher, Hillary Rodham Hussein, it doesn’t matter what ultimately happens, as long as we lose. I find it difficult to stomach your protestations of conservatism with all that nonsense about the dearth of dissent within this country, because every punk who did it during Vietnam did it again. I volunteered and served in combat there, and cowards are the same today as then. I remember them well. “I didn’t like the war,” “I didn’t think it was right,” and on and on. A coward is a coward and this country is full of them. One day, men (I use the term loosely in your case) will dangle at the end of a rope arranged by a brute like Saddam Hussein in this land because they couldn’t manage the intestinal fortitude it took to keep it free. br> — Brian Barfield /p> p> John Corry has been spending too much time with the Wine & Brie crowd. Blah, Blah, Blah, if we attack they’ll use their weapons, he writes, but like the rest of do-nothings he offers no solutions only opposition and then hides behind the label of intelligent conservative. Sounds a little elitist to me! John needs a little deprogramming and the title of Hostage of the Week, but not quite enemy of the week. Don’t worry John, we won’t give up on you. br> — Aftan Romanczak /p>

I don’t think John Corry is a coward but then again I’m not a bully boy. He gets to write his dissent in a conservative forum and then implies that conservatives are branding him a peacenik or a lefty and that his view is somehow being stifled. I heard his argument months ago. A criticism of his arguments is not a stifling of dissent. Now that he brings it up, this is a common claim of leftists and peaceniks. Being in the minority requires toughness and his whining is distracting from his argument.

Disagreements between civilian and military leaders on tactics or the aftermath of war historically do not make the case for always listening to the military leaders. I would rather hear General Shinseki’s and Professor Wolfowitz’s arguments than merely appealing to authority by calling one General Eric and the other merely Paul.