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Derel Schrock Colonel, USAF (retired) of Colorado Springs writes:

Good morning, Prof Campos, “...glimps[ING] Bill Kristol’s smooth and amiable face on television...” must be as far as you have gotten with actually observing and listening to him on his various print and television venues.
Somehow, you have judged that Kristol and the other gentlemen you cite are certifiable “war lovers” in the mold of the character in John Hersey’s WWII novel. I submit that you confuse “war loving” with hard-headed and realistic patriotism, a concept about which I suspect you have no clue. This lumps you with all the other “global pacifists” who have “[N]ever come within a thousand miles of a live bullet.”
If you had the slightest idea of what it takes to be a military person and what it’s like to serve in wartime, or even to open your mind to civilized and objective discourse on politico-military subjects, you would not be so quick to judge the motives of others who are much better informed on these issues. Not that you would understand, but there have been millions of volunteers who sense it their duty to enlist for the purpose of defending, not just their country, but the constitutional and moral principles that guide our nation and society, in order to help free others under subjugation and yes, to defend the right of jackasses like you to bleat and denigrate true patriots and those whose only motive is to protect our nation and culture of freedom.
I shouldn’t be surprised about your attitude, given that you are a card-carrying member of the Peoples’ Republic of Boulder and, to paraphrase the words of Columbia President Bollinger to Ahmadinejad, “I doubt that you have the intellectual courage honestly to address these charges.”

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READER COMMENTS

Tell me Derel, which is worse, the one who has never served and speaks out against sending others to die and to kill, or the one who has never served and speaks in support of sending others to die and to kill?

Colonel,

You are confusing the ideology of nationalism -- a malady that afflicts both you and Mr. Kristol -- with patriotism. The two are quite different.

Good comment, flimflam.

"to defend the right of jackasses like you to bleat and denigrate true patriots and those whose only motive is to protect our nation and culture of freedom."

I'm not sure if you're referring to Kristol in your last sentence, but if so, keep in mind that 'protecting our culture of freedom' is likely secondary to his desire to make a lot of money by appearing on television (and in print) to serve the political party to which he is beholden and, essentially, employed by (same as the Democrats who sit beside him on those shows, by the way).

Kristol, or as I think of him - the Reverse-Nostradamus - is hardly above criticism.

Not a Campos fan but I do think it is funny how much he irritates the wingnuts

Thanks for the crock, Schrock. Now back to sucking chimpy for you...

Can I get in on this back-patting fest too, or have you all dislocated your shoulders yet?

Love it when cowards hide behind a computer and challenge a hero. Come to Sturgis next year, there are plenty of veteran heros you can confront face to face. Thats if you have the wingnuts to make a stand instead of hiding.

I love it. "A Canadien" is going to tell Americans what patriotism isn't. He ,however, does not tell us what it is. Please "oh enlightened canuck" tell us in detail the difference in nationalism and patriotism. Since we are so stupid as to not be educated ouselves would you provide source matter from which your disertation is taken that we might pursue our own path to knowlege?

Golly, I've been "emblogged," to coin a term, and I didn't even know it until a friend pointed it out. Surprising, since I just wrote this note about Prof Campos to the DEN Post. Anyway, I gather that the bloggers "flimflam,"
"a Canadian," "Jeff," and those too cowardly even to leave a name, are part of Prof Campos's "non CAMPOS mentis" (pun intended) claque of wimpy sycophants who suck at the teats of the liberal, handwringing, pacifistic, bleeding- heart professor (of what? the belief that the best defense is surrender?). He would have made a good Vichy Frenchman, as would you knuckleheads. Whatever else you may say, I volunteered to defend your right to be stupid, putting my own life on the line. You wouldn't even make good revolutionaries manning the barricades. IF you have principles, commit and defend them openly, rather than
taking anonymous cheap shots, as "T" above says. T, you've got to be a biker, and I'm on the AF Honor Guard presenting folded flags to survivors at military funerals. Let me know how I can help you guys.

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