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2010-02-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve White 2010-02-15 00:04|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The services are perplexed at why their suicide rates are sky rocketing.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-15 03:56|| 2010-02-15 03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 At Hot Air one of the most interesting comments made was this:

Forget for a moment the immorality of her actions consider the stupidity! Who in their right mind leaves Dartmouth Grad Army Officer for Marxist Bookstore Clerk??

As to those young, funny, book-reading guys she hung out with (and slept with, Id be willing to bet, though she doesnt mention that) while her husband was defending our country (and her children were doing what, exactly?) Honey, they *all* have dissertations on U.S. imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which is why theyre unemployable except at independent bookstores.

Theyll be just the same at 50 as they were at 20, but they wont be so young and it wont be so funny that theyre still making $10 an hour and ranting self-righteously about imperialism whenever you try to watch a movie, cook dinner, go trick-or-treating, or attend the school talent show.

Oh, and she has no right to complain if her new husband does unto her as she did unto others and leaves her for a 19 year old barista working toward her degree in Poststructural Feminism.

Posted by badanov 2010-02-15 07:50|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-02-15 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Um...coming from a stepfather of a Sapper currently serving his 2nd tour, who's wife had the audacity to tell him she was leaving him on the MORNING of his deployment, I withhold my comments here and suggest interested Rantburgers utilize (as I will) the email this POS Courtney Cook advertises on her blog:
cc@courtneycook.us

Posted by logi_cal 2010-02-15 08:01|| 2010-02-15 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Note who the son respects and wishes to emulate.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-02-15 08:10|| 2010-02-15 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 I had a bash at her too - what is she, the volunteer pinata of the week? I would hope that in real life, for the sake of her family and friends that she is not really so toweringly self-centered, and callous as she came off in her essay, but I'm not holding my breath on it.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2010-02-15 08:33|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-02-15 08:33|| Front Page Top

#6 I suspect that what we have here is an even stranger psychology than what appears.

While some women are attracted to men they think are "fixer uppers", that they can "reform" into Prince Charming (and are invariably disappointed), some leftist women equate "fixer upper" with military men.

They think that by using copious amounts of their feminine wiles, as it were, they can convince ROTC cadets to drop out, grow long hair, and become leftist hippies. Seriously.

I saw this back in the 1980s. Among cadet girlfriends, the majority were military-friendly, but there were a few wild radicals who dated cadets with the idea of "converting" them.

It never happened, and eventually the groupie would hook up with some manifesto-carrying beard and leave the AO. Only the pro-military girls ever married into the military, and they were quite happy there.

In the long run, the soldier is probably much better off, though he doesn't think so right now.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-15 09:11|| 2010-02-15 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Did she take his benefits and pension as part of the divorce?

Posted by Penguin 2010-02-15 10:32|| 2010-02-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Unless they changed the law, a minimum of 10 year of service before she can latch on to part of the retirement. Alimony and privileges are only via minor children if she has legal guardianship. They get 'em though she 'chaperons'. When they turn 18 or 21 if attending college, that access disappears as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-15 10:58|| 2010-02-15 10:58|| Front Page Top

#9 ...oh, and the last time I checked in, there was a case in the court pending the process where a service member choose to allow his contract to end without applying for qualified retirement so that there was no hit on that by the ex. She was appealing the act and seeking access.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-15 11:02|| 2010-02-15 11:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like this broad saw "Coming Home" on the Late Night movie and thinks she's Jane Fonda.
Good to see the kid tuck it to her. Probably drove her nuts.
The wheel turns and karma is a bitch. She'll get her's someday...

Posted by tu3031 2010-02-15 11:56|| 2010-02-15 11:56|| Front Page Top

#11 No doubt tough for hubby, but in the long run, a major improvement in his life.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-02-15 12:21|| 2010-02-15 12:21|| Front Page Top

#12 What she has to say for herself in a followup post:

So I published this article on Salon last week and it got some attention. I got a lot of comments on the piece itself and some blogs picked it up too. It was a bizarre trip into online publishing. One thing I discovered is that if you publish online there are people who have never met you who will address you by your first name and curse you in the most vile possible way. A lot of readers keyed on the lead which was quite obviously ironic nothing important is ever simple, especially not the break-up of a marriage.

Jezebel linked to it and their commenters raised interesting things about the behavior of soldiers on deployment I had never thought about. Several military spouse blogs like LeftFace linked to it, and Im still surfing an intense, profane, hate-filled anger from many (though not all) of those readers. I also heard directly from many current and ex-military who thanked me for telling my story. My family including my ex-soldier and my friends read it and understood it but they already knew me.

What I wanted to shed a light on was how two decades of military involvement overseas has been disproportionately hard on American service members and their families including mine. What I hadnt planned on was that the word marxist would be so incendiary, nor that a womans wanting to define her sexuality on her own terms would be considered selfish. Salon picked the title. I wanted to call it On Leaving a Soldier.

I have never thought of anybody a "piece of shit" before. Now I have.

Posted by mom 2010-02-15 12:39|| 2010-02-15 12:39|| Front Page Top

#13 And, having thought of somebody as a "Piece of Shit", I have to do some serious repenting. Pray for those who are so blind that they will not see, and for those expressing judgmental attitudes.

Posted by mom 2010-02-15 13:22|| 2010-02-15 13:22|| Front Page Top

#14 Learning experiences are a gift that expand the soul, mom. That's why they hurt.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-15 14:22|| 2010-02-15 14:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Pray for those who are so blind that they will not see, and for those expressing judgmental attitudes. Posted by mom

Will do mom, but it ain't Decatur out there. It's a totally different world.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-15 14:27|| 2010-02-15 14:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Besoeker, Decatur has nothing to do with it.

The issue is, do not write off any human being as worthless. Even if that person's ideas are utterly appalling.

When I find myself calling any person a piece of shit, I have to look in the mirror and shudder at what I see there.

Now, foul ideas do deserve rebuttal, and I'm glad Sgt Mom, who has more standing in this matter than I do, has done so.

Posted by mom 2010-02-15 18:38|| 2010-02-15 18:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Courtney, Understand Not everyone Thinks like you do.

Posted by SteveS 2010-02-15 22:51|| 2010-02-15 22:51|| Front Page Top

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