Courageous Restraint: Not the Latest Vatican Approved Birth Control

Joy Tiz

©2010

Nor is it the latest diet gimmick.  Courageous Restraint is the next natural step  in the plot to emasculate our military.  The objective is to bestow accolades on  troops in Afghanistan who avoid deadly force at risk to themselves.

Professor Jeffrey F. Addicott, a former senior legal adviser to the Green Berets and director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, speaks for all rational human beings:  

The implication of this award is that we do not engage in war fighting that is appropriate, They’re sending a chilling message to our troops that we are not complying with the law of armed conflict. It’s a propaganda victory for our enemies.

In a war now being run by liberals, the ideal would be that no soldier would want to imperil his shot at earning one of those prestigious Courageous Restraint medals by shooting at the enemy.  No estimates yet as to how many Courageous Restraint medals will be awarded posthumously.

Such malignant meddling is entirely consistent with Obama’s plans to turn the most powerful military force on earth into a law enforcement agency.

“’Unfortunately, we are being reduced to a police force,’ said another U.S. soldier. ‘There are troops that never leave Bagram or Kandahar airfield. … Maybe if they left us all on base and never sent us out to confront the enemy, we could all be honored [for] valor.’”