Yesterday, Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen suggested that at least 75% of the National Guard could be compromised because they voted for Donald Trump, effectively making them a threat to national security.
He had no legitimate basis to make such an outrageous claim, of course, but he’s Steve Cohen, so he made it anyway.
A lot of people — not just members of our military — took great offense to Cohen’s remarks. One of those people is investigative journalist Lara Logan, who’s spent quite a bit of time around our men and women in uniform and has some things to say to Cohen and others like him who seek to stir the racial pot:
I was a journalist on the battlefields of Iraq & Afghanistan for more than a decade. I watched many of these “white men” die there, right beside black, Hispanic & Asian men & women of every color. None of them cared about race – just each other & this country. Shame on all of you https://t.co/ua3eRDz9ql
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) January 19, 2021
To all those giddy with glee in the mad rush to condemn the “white men” of the Nat Guard as “domestic terrorists” remember this: it isn’t yet a crime to be white or a man.
70+ % the U.S. population is white. They’ve bled & died for you along with all races, united without hate.— Lara Logan (@laralogan) January 19, 2021
Steve Cohen knows that. He just doesn’t care. Intellectual honesty goes out the window when you’re only interested in scoring the cheapest of political points.
Well said @laralogan
— JPB (@GolfnGrapes) January 19, 2021
Thank you.
— Russell Ian (@RussellIan5) January 19, 2021
Thank you for saying this.
— Vanessa Peveto (@vb1961) January 19, 2021
Thank you. Needed to be said.
— Sam Culper (@woodhull_abe) January 19, 2021
Thank you Ms. Logan. I served for 24+ years under multiple presidents. Even some that I didn't agree with very much, and I somehow restrained myself from trying to overthrow the government.
— Dan McClinton (@DanMcClinton1) January 19, 2021