By Alan Caruba,Canada Free Press
Obama politicizes the death of brave American Servicemen
Presidents engage in all kinds of ceremonial events. Every Thanksgiving,they “pardon” a turkey so it doesn’t end up on the White House menu. They make sure they are photographed with the winning teams of various sporting series. Every Easter they can be found at the White House Egg Roll accompanied,I have always suspected,by a Secret Service agent in a large bunny costume.
The other evening,shortly after midnight,President Obama made sure to be photographed standing in line with military personnel and some civilians in attendance as the dead,including three drug enforcement agents,from Afghanistan were returned home at Dover Air Force base. Our military casualties are received in a solemn ceremony few except those in attendance ever witness.
Presidents have never participated in this ceremony. The caskets are a too vivid reminder that part of their job is to send troops in harm’s way. President Bush preferred to meet with the families of fallen heroes.
When 241 U.S. military were murdered by a suicide bomber in Beirut on October 23,1983,President Ronald Reagan attended a ceremony at Camp Lejeune to speak of his grief and anger. Three months after the bombing,he pulled out U.S. troops.