Monday, November 17, 2008

The Bush Administration's Radical Feminism and the Family

Allan Carlson concludes that "whenever natural family values went up against the war in Iraq, the manpower needs of the Pentagon, corporate interests, or even political expediency, there was no contest: families were ignored," quoted here by Christopher Manion — Leading Pro-Family Advocate Now Admits: Bush A Disaster. Specifically, the author notes that "the Army ignored the lessons of all human history and put women—including young mothers—at risk, a shameful blot on the American record." This paragraph stands out:
    The administration’s deliberate twisting of gender roles was on gruesome display in the case of Jessica Lynch, in which Pentagon propagandists blatantly lied about her capture in the early days of the Iraq War, turning a frightened victim of Iraqi sexual abuse into a female version of Sergeant York. Private Lynndie England’s infamous exploits in the Abu Ghraib prison were another sign of the Pentagon’s direct complicity in the feminist-inspired degradation of American women.
"The Sage of Batavia," Bill Kauffman, had it figured out as far back as 2003, decrying "the perverse and heart-wrenchingly anti-family policies of Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney," as well as the "the silence of the courtiers and grant-grubbers of Establishment Conservatism, whose mingled nescience and cowardice testify to the gutlessness and wicked stupidity of what passes for the Right" — George Bush, the Anti-Family President.

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