Good-bye Mother Sheehan

Now there has been much said about the departure of Cindy Sheehan from the "peace" movement. Two things in her missive in her Daily Kos diary struck me the most.

"Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."

Sadly, Mrs. Sheehan has a huge point here. More Americans care more about American Idol than they care about the state of the nation. However, rather than just condemn the country I wish she could have offered a solution or two. That is the sole of debate - the exchange of ideas. Me, I think that we should restore mandatory "Civics" classes in Middle and High Schools. When I was in Middle School I had to take a 1 semester class in "American Government" AND I could not move on to 8th grade until I passed a test on American history and American Government. Plus I had to take a full year of American History and Civics in High School. So far, they Junior Logician has had none of that.

The second statement that caught my eye was this.

"Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it."

Now some are pointing to this and saying "see - this is proof that the left hates America." Now I won't go that far, but I will say that this shows quite clearly the ego of a woman who not two paragraphs before, bemoans the overbearing egos in the peace movement. You are not what I want you to be therefore you are not worthy of my love.... All I can say is I hope she didn't shower her children with that kind of love.