Jonah Goldberg is a Coward, Part II - The Doughy Pantsload
The following is the text of an e-mail I sent to Jonah Goldberg after reading his rationaliztion column:
Dear Mr. Goldberg:
I've been following your "debate" online with Juan Cole for a few days now. I have to say that I'm quite amused at the rate at which you seem to be embarrassing yourself with half-truths about Cole. Your indignant prose doesn't cover up the smell of inadequacy wafting from your latest column.
Yet it isn't Cole's response or your pathetic reply that led me to write this letter. No, it's your excuse for not volunteering for duty in Iraq.
To insist that you can't go to war because you have a child, that you are 35, that you have a house to pay for, and a wife who loves you ignores the brave sacrifice of over 1400 young men and women who went there anyway and died. It is simply disgusting that as a private citizen you fomented for war, acted as a cheerleader, and fell back on excuses when asked why you did not volunteer your own life for such an important cause. The dead and maimed in Iraq (on both sides) all had obligations and yes, even loved ones, and you should be deeply ashamed that you even tried to compare yourself to them.
Here's a white feather for you; maybe it'll inspire you to develop some humility after your excuses for not joining the war you seem so eager for others to wage in your name.
If you don't know of the tradition of a white feather, try reading this web page:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/whitefeathers.htm
and this site:
http://whitefeatherforjonah.com
Sincerely,
Douglas Broussard
Dear Mr. Goldberg:
I've been following your "debate" online with Juan Cole for a few days now. I have to say that I'm quite amused at the rate at which you seem to be embarrassing yourself with half-truths about Cole. Your indignant prose doesn't cover up the smell of inadequacy wafting from your latest column.
Yet it isn't Cole's response or your pathetic reply that led me to write this letter. No, it's your excuse for not volunteering for duty in Iraq.
To insist that you can't go to war because you have a child, that you are 35, that you have a house to pay for, and a wife who loves you ignores the brave sacrifice of over 1400 young men and women who went there anyway and died. It is simply disgusting that as a private citizen you fomented for war, acted as a cheerleader, and fell back on excuses when asked why you did not volunteer your own life for such an important cause. The dead and maimed in Iraq (on both sides) all had obligations and yes, even loved ones, and you should be deeply ashamed that you even tried to compare yourself to them.
Here's a white feather for you; maybe it'll inspire you to develop some humility after your excuses for not joining the war you seem so eager for others to wage in your name.
If you don't know of the tradition of a white feather, try reading this web page:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/whitefeathers.htm
and this site:
http://whitefeatherforjonah.com
Sincerely,
Douglas Broussard
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