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Natalie Maines, Genunine Moonbat
I heard about this interview on my commute this week, and taking it into consideration, decided that Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks is the one most deserving of a Moonbat Award. This in from the Daily Telegraph:
"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people care about patriotism."
Not that you have to ave served in the Armed Forces to see or understand why people can care about patriotism, I think it helps. (For the record, I served in the USAF.)
Maines is obviously out of touch with mainstream America, as most Americans do see a reason to care about patriotisim, do support our troops serving in Iraq, as well as their mission.
What do we have to be patriotic about? Lot's of things!
America has for over two hundred years been the world's foremost bastion of liberty, and as President push put it, "liberty is the desire of every soul."
The Statue of Liberty is still the world's most significant symbol of liberty.
America has fought against tyranny on every corner of the globe, either overtly, such as in World War 2, the Korean War, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq; and sometimes covertly, such as the failed Bay of Pigs, where we failed to support our Cuban allies as promised, or in Central and South America, and Africa as communist insurgencies took hold in those regions of the world, and sometimes supplying bad people to fight other bad people, such as when Afghanistan was fighting against a Soviet invasion.
Even with our failures, such as Vietnam (thanks to the Democrats in Congress, who forced the abandonement of yet another ally) and the Bay of Pigs fiasco, America has done more to spread liberty throughout the world.
America enjoys greater freedoms than any othr country, including freedom of speech, to protect politcal discourse, and the right to kep and bear arms, without which, we could not hope to preserve any of our other rights.
America leads the world both technogically as well as economically, and this is yet another reason to be patriotic. American innovation.
Natalie Maines may not see a reason to be patriotic, but I sure as heck do.
Natalie Maines, congratulations, you are a Moonbat!
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