Stein Unrepentant

Joel Stein, who's "Warriors and Wusses" column has stirred up a lot of emotion, is sticking to his guns.

No, wait. Wrong metaphore; this is not a gun guy. He's refusing to step out of the manure pile. He told Reuters:

"I don't support what they are doing, and I don't the see point of putting a big yellow magnet on your car if you don't. I don't think (soldiers) are necessarily bad people. I do plenty of things that are wrong too. But I don't agree with what they are doing so I don't see the logic of supporting it."

"I do plenty of things that are wrong too?!" If Stein can't see the logic of supporting the war, it may be because he's just so darn illogical.

If his beef with the soldiers is that they're doing something wrong, their wrong would be killing people, wounding people, bombing people -- lots of bloody war stuff. He definitely doesn't that soldiers are doing wrong things by wearing uniforms, eating funny rations or telling off-color jokes.

So is Joel admitting to wrongs of similar intensity? Of course not. He's just being a wuss, a pathetic wuss who's trying to cover up his mistake with a pandering bit of phoney relating.

Stein also told Reuters, "(I have no regrets) if this helps us get out of that war and bring our troops home safely." How vane. Does he think his little column will suddenly make John Kerry or Barbara Boxer honest? Not on your life.

If he wants to get us out of the war and bring the troops home, he should endeavor to write a column explaining how to do that short of victory; how to do that without giving the advantage to terrorists who want to kill us, and without depriving Iraqis of the freedom our soldiers have given their lives for.

That's a column he's incapable of writing, but that's not a slam on Stein. It's a column every single anti-war commentator is incapable of writing. He's being praised by some on the right for at least being honest about his feelings. He's not. He's just using his cute and coy outrageousness to cover up the fact that he believes in an insupportable position.