I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
More soldiers died in peacetime under Bill Clinton…
February 21, 2007
….than have died in wartime under George W. Bush.
The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133. This is tragic, as are all deaths due to war, and we are facing a cowardly enemy unlike any other in our past that hides behind innocent citizens. Each death is blazoned in the headlines of newspapers and Internet sites. What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That’s 4,417 deaths in peacetime but, of course, who’s counting?” — Alicia Colon
And if you were a soldier serving in the U.S. military during Jimmy Carter’s turn in the White House, you stood an even greater chance of getting killed.
What does this prove, the reader might ask?
Well, primarily, I think it shows that left-leaning governments (and, it stands to reason, many left-leaning individuals) tend to care much less about the soldiers who stand ready to give their lives to defend said government and the people of the nation it governs. We saw this evidenced in Canada in the dark decade of neglect that the Liberal Party heaped upon the Canadian Forces…disgustingly, a relatively modern Western army had to ration bullets, and send its soldiers to food banks so that they could eat. Rudders fell off planes, ships rusted, and helicopters fell out of the sky, all because the Liberal Party couldn’t be bothered to properly fund Canada’s armed forces.
In a different way, the same lack of care is evident in looking at the U.S.’ records. Under Carter and Clinton, the government just didn’t care about the troops, and more of them died in training and equipment accidents than have been killed by bombs and weapons-fire in Iraq.
It also means that we really shouldn’t pay attention to the headlines that scream bloody murder about the 2,500th, 3,000th, or even 3,500th death sustained by American forces in Iraq. Now, the minute the Iraq casualty totals rise above 4,417, then we can sit up and listen. But until then, when we consider the body-count screaming at us from the headlines of the newspaper, and then consider that a decade ago, that same newspaper carried not a word about the deaths of soldiers, we should remember that the media is running on an agenda…and we should not get fooled by that.
