Amazing! I’m feeling the need to express myself a bit as well. Arkin, you filthy scum! I guess I should appreciate your honesty for revealing the rottenness we all knew festered within you unpatriotic, un-American, loathsome traitors, but I am to sickened by your vitriol.
…since leaving the service is easier to trace. Arkin cut his teeth with the lefty Institute for Policy Studies, and went from there to positions with Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Human Rights Watch. He has been a regular columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
In recent years he has taken more mainstream work as a senior fellow at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (he appears to do most of his writing not from the SAIS campus, but from his home in Vermont).
He is also the regular military affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times (what a surprise that the Times employs a Greenpeace alum as its military guru) and a commentator for MSNBC…
(I)n Arkin’s own speech to an audience at the U.S. Naval War College on September 25, 2002… (a) lengthy and vitriolic attack on the Bush administration, Arkin admitted to feeling “cynical about the fact that we are going to war to enhance the economic interests of the Enron class,” and declared that “the war against terrorism is overstated.”
I have mentioned before my firm belief that the far Left will not be satisfied with excoriating President Bush and trying to force a withdrawal/defeat for US forces in Iraq, but will also attempt to confuse the war in Iraq with the war on Islamist Terrorism and force a defeat there as well. Arkin more than proves my point.
Bat One - 08:01pm on 01/31/2007
Michelle Malkin has more reaction to Arkin’s screed, including some quotes posted at Arkin’s blog:
“How dare these dead enders with no future and few – if any – other prospects not show the proper appreciation and reverence to the Washington Post and its elite cedres of thinkers…
The next thing you know, these clowns dying in Iraq will think they deserve the right to vote.
Poor deluded souls. How dare they defy the noblesse oblige laid bare before them.
Or this,
I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to simultaneously more pompous and more idiotic than John F-ing Kerry, but you’ve gone that extra mile.
Time for the libs to circle the wagons and start braying about “free speech” again.
Arkin isn’t all that good a writer, so that only leaves the ideological argument for hiring him in the first place.
Pity about WaPo. Their race with the NYT appears to be as determined in reverse as it used to be toward the top of the heap.
Bat One - 08:01pm on 01/31/2007
It is people like that who make me want to get a big sock and stuff it in his mouth!
Zsa Zsa - 08:01pm on 01/31/2007
I’m glad he wrote the article. It lets us know just what the Left believes about the US, myself and my fellow servicemembers. I for one will now use the word ‘traitor’ for everyone on the left. Their cover has been blown.
Sluggo - 09:01pm on 01/31/2007
Bat One said
I have mentioned before my firm belief that the far Left will not be satisfied with excoriating President Bush and trying to force a withdrawal/defeat for US forces in Iraq, but will also attempt to confuse the war in Iraq with the war on Islamist Terrorism and force a defeat there as well.
That is always the danger when you engage in an operation like Iraq and justify it on the basis that it is a central front in the War on Terror. I suspect that enough people recognise that Iraq has little to do with the fighting terrorism and that they’ll be on board with whatever relevant measures are required to bring the terrorists to heel.
MikeAdamson - 12:02am on 02/01/2007
I suspect that enough people recognise that Iraq has little to do with the fighting terrorism and that they’ll be on board with whatever relevant measures are required to bring the terrorists to heel.
Meanwhile in the real world, we’re killing terrorists left and right in Iraq.
I hope I didn’t just confuse the “reality based community” there.
likwidshoe - 01:02am on 02/01/2007
Exactly!...Well said, Lik. I am sure you confused quite a few out there though.
Zsa Zsa - 05:02am on 02/01/2007
The left has always hated and despised all members of the military and police. Arkin has a long history of shitting on America, our population, our military, our religions, our law enforcement, and our history.
The days of leftards spitting on soldiers and calling them baby-killers never went away, and now we will get to see them receive the rewards they so richly deserve.
Troops are pissed, and it ain’t Bush they are coming for.
2Hotel9 - 05:02am on 02/01/2007
That is so odd that the Libs would call Anyone Baby Killers since the libs are responsible for soooooooo many millions of babies, zygotes, fetuses or whatever you choose to call those little globs of cells that if left alone grow into little humans…
Amazing! I’m feeling the need to express myself a bit as well. Arkin, you filthy scum! I guess I should appreciate your honesty for revealing the rottenness we all knew festered within you unpatriotic, un-American, loathsome traitors, but I am to sickened by your vitriol.
Hugh Hewitt’s 2003 NRO article offers more details about WaPo’s execrable William Arkin,
I have mentioned before my firm belief that the far Left will not be satisfied with excoriating President Bush and trying to force a withdrawal/defeat for US forces in Iraq, but will also attempt to confuse the war in Iraq with the war on Islamist Terrorism and force a defeat there as well. Arkin more than proves my point.
Michelle Malkin has more reaction to Arkin’s screed, including some quotes posted at Arkin’s blog:
Or this,
Time for the libs to circle the wagons and start braying about “free speech” again.
Arkin isn’t all that good a writer, so that only leaves the ideological argument for hiring him in the first place.
Pity about WaPo. Their race with the NYT appears to be as determined in reverse as it used to be toward the top of the heap.
It is people like that who make me want to get a big sock and stuff it in his mouth!
I’m glad he wrote the article. It lets us know just what the Left believes about the US, myself and my fellow servicemembers. I for one will now use the word ‘traitor’ for everyone on the left. Their cover has been blown.
Bat One said
That is always the danger when you engage in an operation like Iraq and justify it on the basis that it is a central front in the War on Terror. I suspect that enough people recognise that Iraq has little to do with the fighting terrorism and that they’ll be on board with whatever relevant measures are required to bring the terrorists to heel.
I suspect that enough people recognise that Iraq has little to do with the fighting terrorism and that they’ll be on board with whatever relevant measures are required to bring the terrorists to heel.
Meanwhile in the real world, we’re killing terrorists left and right in Iraq.
I hope I didn’t just confuse the “reality based community” there.
Exactly!...Well said, Lik. I am sure you confused quite a few out there though.
The left has always hated and despised all members of the military and police. Arkin has a long history of shitting on America, our population, our military, our religions, our law enforcement, and our history.
The days of leftards spitting on soldiers and calling them baby-killers never went away, and now we will get to see them receive the rewards they so richly deserve.
Troops are pissed, and it ain’t Bush they are coming for.
That is so odd that the Libs would call Anyone Baby Killers since the libs are responsible for soooooooo many millions of babies, zygotes, fetuses or whatever you choose to call those little globs of cells that if left alone grow into little humans…