What War?
The United States has some
68,000 troops fighting in Afghanistan. Over two thousand Americans have
died in the more than ten years of that war, a war Mitt Romney has
supported. Yet in his speech accepting his party's nomination to be
commander in chief, Mitt Romney said not a word about the war in
Afghanistan. Nor did he utter a word of appreciation to the troops
fighting there, or to those who have fought there. Nor for that matter
were there thanks for those who fought in Iraq, another conflict that
went unmentioned.
Leave
aside the question of the political wisdom of Romney's silence, and the
opportunities it opens up for President Obama next week. What about the
civic propriety of a presidential nominee failing even to mention, in
his acceptance speech, a war we're fighting and our young men and women
who are fighting it? Has it ever happened that we've been at war and a
presidential nominee has ignored, in this kind of major and formal
speech, the war and our warriors?
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