Those Despicable, Loathsome, Hypocritical, Bloviating, Cowardly Chicken Hawks By A. Peter Bailey

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Those Despicable, Loathsome, Hypocritical, Bloviating, Cowardly Chicken Hawks
By A. Peter Bailey

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - There is constant news in the American press these days about ISIS’s ability to recruit young Muslims from all over the world to come and help them combat what they consider a dire threat to their version of Islam.

At the same time, and with the same consistency, arm chair warriors such as Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham denounce President Obama for refusing to put “boots on the ground” to combat the “Islamic savages” whom they insist are a dire threat to the national security of the United States.

These two news items came to mind while watching thousands of young, overwhelmingly White Christians cheer, wave flags and talk trash at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.

I found myself wondering aloud why super chicken hawks, O’Reilly, Hannity and Graham don’t launch a campaign urging, no, insisting that those passionate young White Christians (and their very few persons of color colleagues) become the boots on the ground to deal with ISIS. There were enough of them at the CPAC to be a formidable weapon for defending the national security of the United States. After all, they are members of the “superior race” and should be able to take care of those “thugs” who, they declare with fervor, threaten everything they consider holy and sacred.

What they are doing now is enjoying themselves in college, in good paying jobs, in country clubs, in church, in their spacious homes in suburban neighborhoods while the children of low income and working class Black, Latino and White families are sent to be killed or maimed in wars in the Middle East. Just like their cohorts and heroes, O’Reilly, Hannity and Graham, they have absolutely no intention of being in combat anywhere to protect the national security that they insist is in danger.

That makes them despicable, loathsome, hypocritical, bloviating, cowardly chicken hawks.

A. Peter Bailey, whose latest book is, Witnessing Brother Malcolm X, the Master Teacher, can be reached This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..