Arkin digging the hole deeper…and deeper
Posted on February 1, 2007
AJ Strata: Boycott The Washington Post Until Arkin Gone
I have to admit the insensitivity (not to mention self absorbtion) of Bill Arkin is stunning. The guy basically wrote our troops should be honored to die for all of us back here in the US after all we have given them. I first saw this story yesterday at Powerline and was so disgusted I felt like someone had just thrown excrement everywhere. Arkin is an emotionally stunted wannabe adult, that has been clear for a while. But this is just too much. He has a bright mind which he has never learned to manage so he goes off on these wild imaginitive tangents of fantasy - constantly. I have never understood why the Washington Post lowers their standards so far to keep him. But to add insult to insult, Arkin is now out ranting that people disagree with him are too dumb to know better.
Well, he crossed the line twice so it is time to remind the Washington Post of their civic and corporate duties.
If the Washington Post wants to maintain any pretense of credibility, it should listen to the people on this one. Please save the platitudinous puke about William Arkin’s “right to free speech,” no one is trying to deny him that. He is free to be as much of a drooler as he wishes to be. This is about a grassroots effort to hold a major “news” organization accountable for the vomit to which it attaches its “prestige.”
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I don’t know if he’s just amazingly arrogant or stupendiously stupid. It’s a toss up.
I don’t know if he’s just amazingly arrogant or stupendiously stupid. It’s a toss up.
he is giving good evidence of both, IMO.
I’m either speechless or so angry I don’t know how to say what I want to about this credent. Why is it that they get spread all this hatred but when we say something in response, we are the ones that are intolerant fascists? I’ll leave it at that. I’m about to cuss…
From http://www.greatmindsthinkright.com
William Arkin – A Mere Rectal Parasite on a Sewer Rat’s Flea
By Mark R. Taylor on Feb 01, 07
On January 30, 2007, William Arkin wrote a commentary titled “The Troops Also Need to Support the American Peopleâ€, which appears on the Washington Post’s website.
Arkin ponders the thoughts of our American heroes – our soldiers in battle in Iraq – in an NBC Nightly News story in which soldiers from Ft. Lewis, Washington, now stationed in Iraq, expressed frustration at the American media and the left-wing, anti-American protesters hell-bent on undermining their mission.
Every night for eighteen months, I, along with hundreds of other civilian truckers, put my life on the line to deliver mail, fuel and supplies to our troops. While I cannot speak for each of them, I personally did this because I live what I believe. It is a belief my wife and I know was worth my life.
I would like to state that while I was in Iraq, I had the honor of working side by side with the 497th Transportation Company, Ft. Lewis, Washington. They were our dedicated military escorts for our mail missions after the demobilization of the 1544th Transportation Company, Illinois National Guard. Arkin, you are not fit to wipe the Iraq muck off their combat boots.
In 2003, I made a decision to live what I believe – support the troops and their mission. Too old to join the military, I took a job with KBR as a truck driver/convoy commander in Iraq. I served in that capacity for eighteen months. Arkin uses the term “mercenary†to describe our troops. I am sure he will use it to describe me. One only needs to look up “mercenary†in the dictionary; you know that big book that sits on his shelf, obviously unopened, to find the definition fits neither circumstance. The soldiers volunteered – they do not have to enlist. They can take their talents to the private sector. There are those of us who would have been honored to serve in the military. We took the alternate route and have lived for four years with the ignorance and stupidity in the media that the article conveys. I know firsthand how disturbing and demoralizing it can be to be serving in a war zone while clueless, spineless cowards spout such nonsense unchallenged to the masses. I will not tolerate this for our troops.
To quote Arkin, “So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?†Excuse me? This is almost too asinine to comment on. Our troops deserve much more than what they are paid and/or “givenâ€. Unlike those who have made a living collecting a welfare check or the illegal aliens choking our government “gimme†programs, these heroic men and women earn everything they receive and more. Seven of these heroes I had the honor of serving with died in Iraq. No matter what we do as Americans, it will never be enough for the skill, honor and courage found in our troops.
Arkin further states “But Iraq is not dirty work.†I doubt that Arkin has done clean up and recovery after a convoy ambush, much less clean up his own office. I challenge him to walk five minutes in the combat boots of a soldier or civilian trucker in Iraq. I doubt he would make it outside the wire.
This piece of human debris is an embarrassment and a coward – a mere rectal parasite in a sewer rat’s flea. He is too ignorant to realize that if it were not for these heroes, he would be in the stockade or dead by now.
In Iraq, I had the opportunity to put my life on the line for what I believe and what I write. I would do it again in a minute. A coward like Arkin hasn’t the courage or honor to do the same.
Reference:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/01/the_troops_also_need_to_suppor.html
Mark R. Taylor is a former Bradley County, Arkansas, auxiliary deputy sheriff and volunteer firefighter. Currently a long-haul truck driver, he served in Iraq from January 2004 to May 2005 as a civilian convoy commander. He has appeared on The Captains America and other radio programs and his commentary has appeared in Landline Magazine, American Daily, Family Security Matters and Townhall.Com. The Taylors live in South Arkansas. Mark’s websites are http://www.greatmindsthinkright.com and http://www.americantruckersatwar.com