"The Long Riders: How Do Our Soldiers Do It All?"

A beatifully crafted paean to our soldiers in Iraq from Victor Davis Hanson at NRO today:

.... How do such men and women do such things, against such material, cultural, military, and psychological odds? I don’t know. But in the last year all those who have bet against the Americans now riding into the desert — elite journalists, out-of-touch academics, and self-satisfied Europeans — have been consistently wrong in their shrill predictions that we were either incompetent or amoral or would fail.

Why is this so? It is not merely that so many are so ignorant of history, or that most who are degreed and certified are glib and swarmy, but not educated. No, the better explanation is that they rarely work among, know, see or care about the type of Americans now barreling to Baghdad — who are still a different, and I think, a better sort of people.

And now thousands of them ride on to Baghdad.

(Thanks, Charles.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 03/24/03 01:43:45 PM
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