I was going to write today about the horrendous MoveOn.org ad calling Gen. David Petreaus a traitor, but TigerHawk has done it better than I possibly could have in a long post showing how it is MoveOn.org, not Petreaus, that has betrayed its country by its naked attempt not just to differ with Petreaus' assessment of the Iraq war, but to undermine the military itself as an American institution.
MoveOn's ad is nothing less than an attack on the Army as an institution. It has not merely said that it disagrees with General Petraeus, or that it begs to differ with his interpretation of obviously interpretable facts. MoveOn has accused the commander of more than 100,000 American soldiers of treason in the middle of a war.
There are several messages embedded in the charge that General Petraeus is a traitor. If the United States Army in its most important theater is led by a traitor, then how can it be said that the Army is any longer serving the United States? MoveOn's careful use of coded language -- the language we use to describe Brutus, Benedict Arnold, and Vidkun Quisling -- is calculated to destroy the credibility of the United States military. MoveOn uses the language because it does not want the American people to believe that its Army is looking out for its best interests. It not only wants to win the political fight, it wants Americans to stop volunteering to serve -- who would, if the Army's most famous general were in fact a criminal? -- and it wants those who have to doubt their commander and quit, protest, or otherwise subvert the mission in Iraq.
MoveOn uses language that subverts the Army as an institution for purposes that go beyond the next vote in Congress. It not only wants us to think General Petraeus is lying today, but that any soldier who argues that Iraq is anything other than a defeat is lying. Not disagreeing, but lying.
The sick, sad part of this is that MoveOn.org represents the beating heart of the Democratic Party. Courtesy of blogger Matthew Hoy, there is now a list of members of Congress who have accepted MoveOn money in recent years. All Democrats. Not a Republican in the bunch.
Remember, MoveOn.org wasn't just against the Iraq war - the organization was actively opposed to America taking military action against al Qaeda and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, even though they had just murdered nearly 3,000 Americans.
If MoveOn.org had its way, Afghanistan would still be under the control of the Taliban, and harboring al Qaeda.
Do the Democrat senators and representatives who have taken MoveOn's money support MoveOn.org's radical agenda to undermine the military and force America to surrender in the war on terror?
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