Chris Matthews: West Point Military Academy is ‘Enemy Camp’

Chris Matthews (Photo credit: Chet Lyzarko)

You know, I’ve long said that many of these ultra-Leftist America-hating liberals have more sympathy with America’s enemies than they do with America and Americans.

Tonight we may have seen a disturbing illustration of that contention.

Chris Matthews of MSNBC, one of the most liberal of the liberal “mainstream” media, said some remarkable things about President Obama’s speech tonight at the West Point Army academy on Afghanistan.

“I think it’s true of most wars. They start with a lot of excitement. I remember the scene in ‘Gone with the Wind’ where the rebels are so excited about going to war with the North, a country they can’t beat because of its industrial advantage and population advantage. They were going to lose that war eventually.

“It seems like in this case, there isn’t a lot of excitement. I watched the cadets, they were young kids, men and women who were committed to serving their country professionally it must be said, as officers. And, I didn’t see much excitement. But among the older people there, I saw, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn’t see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there. The president chose to address tonight and I thought it was interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case.”

A lot of interesting stuff here, in less than a minute’s time.

Is Matthews saying the war in Afghanistan against the terrorists is a war we can’t win?   Well, we certainly won’t with a defeatist attitude like that!

Matthews said he saw some skepticism, and acted like he wasn’t sure why.  As someone who served 10 years in the U.S. military under three presidents, I have some idea.  Having served under a very good one (Ronald Reagan) and a very bad one (Bill Clinton), these military folks may just be skeptical that President Obama is going to back them when the fur flies, or if he’s going to let them take care of business in Afghanistan and Iraq.

What I found most interesting was that Matthews said Obama had “went to the enemy camp” to make this speech.  The United States Army academy is “the enemy camp”?

Is Matthews saying that Obama sees the U.S. military as the enemy?  That’s a pretty strong statement, but given President Obama’s  perpetual penchant for bowing to other countries and their leaders, his Apologizing for America Tour, his unwillingness to defend the use of U.S. military force, his loathing of our Constitution, his embrace of anti-American thugs, his association with foreign and domestic terrorists, and his packing of our government with communists and other anti-Americans, perhaps Matthews has a point.

Or is Matthews saying that he himself (Matthews) considers the U.S. Army the enemy?   With Matthews’ long track record of going easy on our enemies and hostile toward the most patriotic among us, perhaps this is what he means when he says the West Point academy is “the enemy camp.”

I know the truth seems to have escaped Matthews and many other on the Left, but come on: the U.S. military is our friend, and they are fighting the enemy (you know, the bad guys who like to target civilians and such) to keep us and our allies safe.

One thing is for sure: when mindless liberals like Mattthews have a mic, you’re going to hear some pretty outrageous things.

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