Milbloggers would get more respect if they earned it

At Mudville Gazette, Grayhawk says Obama needed to have a Stryker brigade in Iraq appear more needed in Afghanistan, even if that Stryker unit had 10 months of now-useless Arabic training, and even if it means moving another Stryker unit from Fort Lewis, Wash., to Iraq, ahead of schedule.

He’s got some interesting, even good points.

Grayhawk may well be right to fault the claim of a moved brigade that’s being replaced part of the “drawdown.”

And, in my original post, I said I agreed with him:

As a left-liberal who voted Green the past two elections, this doesn't totally surprise me. I doubt Obama will have all troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011, and, of course, his plan only includes Army and Marines; says nothing about USAF.

But, I added:

That said, the nutbar "conservatives" here fulminating about the pseudo-liberal media are good for a laugh. Time to put your tinfoil hats back on.

But, try to talk even halfway sense, and you get accused of calling soldiers mouth-breathers and worse.

As I posted in a second comment, it seems like a lot of people in wingerland have a big-time martyr complex.

And, on the other hand, a commenter there noted that troop rotations don’t just pop up out of nowhere; the claim that the goofy rotation, and the wasted Arabic training, was all Obama’s initiative, is ridiculous. Troop rotations are planned in advance and this started in the Bush Administration.