The Patriotic Left?

It has become fashionable among moonbat leftists to become offended at any hint of a challenge to their patriotism. They declare, loudly and incessantly, that the fact that they don’t support the president and do oppose the war doesn’t mean that they don’t support the troops. They then ask what they should do, lie, become hypocrites, remain silent about an issue which they feel strongly about.

To answer that question let us go back in time and examine the actions of a true American patriot and hero and how he dealt with an American policy with which he disagreed which led to a war which he did not believe should have been fought.

The hero that I’m speaking about is Charles Lindbergh, the aviation pioneer who was the first man to fly non-stop solo across the Atlantic from the United States to Paris, France.

In the days leading up to Pearl Harbor the United States, although officially neutral, clearly favored the UK and the USSR in their war against the Axis. Roosevelt and Churchill held meetings in which they openly spoke of the need to “defeat Germany first”.

This was not lost on the Germans who sought an opportunity to influence the US to maintain its neutrality. That opportunity came when the US government asked its greatest flyer to travel to Germany and evaluate the combat power of the Luftwaffe.

Charles Lindbergh, an isolationist with little love for the Jews and a personal political outlook which left him somewhat sympathetic to Nazism, took the assignment. Upon his arrival in Berlin he was met by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, commander of the Luftwaffe. Mr. Lindbergh was honored by his Nazi hosts and on repeated tours of German aviation facilities was shown a great deal of just what the Nazis wanted him to see.

He came back believing that German military technology was unbeatable and did not hesitate to say so. FDR was not pleased. Lindbergh went on to become a star attraction at isolationist rallies, until he went too far and blamed the Jewish control of the US government for its hostile attitude to the Nazis. The fallout from this caused Lindbergh to resign his commission in the Army Air Corps.

The lesson here is in what Lindbergh did after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war upon the United States. Lindbergh returned to the United States, a country which had rejected his advice to remain strictly neutral and had cooled toward him personally, and attempted to rejoin the Army. When his reentrance into the Army was blocked by members of the administration and by Roosevelt himself, who believed that Lindbergh was a Nazi, Lindbergh went to work as a consultant to American aviation companies. He worked with American combat pilots giving them the benefit of his experience even going so far as to fly combat missions, as a civilian.

Let’s review. Lindbergh was an isolationist who did not believe that America should be involved in any foreign war. He actually sympathized with America’s enemies before the outbreak of hostilities. His stated position was that the war could not even be won. He disliked the sitting president who returned his dislike. He also disagreed with the administration’s domestic policies.

At the start of the war he put all of this behind him and attempted to enlist in the war effort as an Air Corps officer. When he was rebuffed he did not use this insult as an excuse to return to England and retire to his country home. He pitched in and served the war effort any way that he could. He did everything in his power to secure American victory in the war that he did not even agree with and doubted could be won. He did this because he was a true patriot and his nation was at war and he did his duty. That is what patriots do. Lindbergh was grownup enough to know that when your countrymen are fighting and dying the story stops being about you and how you feel and becomes about them and how to help them WIN.

So to any leftist who is offended by any doubt cast upon his patriotism I ask this simple question. What are you doing to aid the American fighting man in securing victory in this war that you do not agree with? What are you doing to help win the war, even if you doubt that it can be won? That is what patriots do, what are you doing?