tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30655817.post4419138777657353017..comments2023-09-08T07:17:13.613-04:00Comments on Red Meat Conservative: The Palin Foreign Policy DoctrineDaniel Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107342765455566384noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30655817.post-61513526878584624972011-05-05T10:14:48.449-04:002011-05-05T10:14:48.449-04:00Thank you for writing this article. I read it over...Thank you for writing this article. I read it over at RedState but came here to thank you as close to the source as possible. My son is 16, a junior in high school, and wants to join the marines to serve his country. Under "normal" circumstances, I would not, could not, be more proud at his desire. He believes in freedom and in the conservative values that he has been brought up with; he is truly a reflection of the America of yesterday - the land that I love. But I do not want him to join the Marines now or in the next few years, because, as I've unsuccessfully tried to explain to him, our current politicians do not send our men and women into harms way for the values that we believe and that he learned. They send them for political reasons, profit reasons, public relations reasons. And they do not send them to win, they send them for undefined goals. Palin's proposed foreign policy harkens back to the values that this country's foreign policy was built on - brains, honor, goals, decisiveness. I am sharing this article with my son in the hopes that he comes to understand my fear of him being sent to get shot for reasons that do not reflect the country he thinks he will be serving, the country he wants to serve that I pray we will one day soon be again. I would rather he serve in the Coast Guard, or the FBI - something that better reflects methods that protect America. I hope he listens to you. And I pray for the men and women who have been sent into harm's way for politicians who do not understand how and for what this country was truly built and protected.Jerry Novickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839973637563185580noreply@blogger.com