Bill Kristol On Romney’s Speech: Does He Know There’s A War Going On?

Even Bill Kristol at the conservative Weekly Standard realized how inappropriate it was for Mitt Romney, in his acceptance speech, to ignore 68,000 Americans fighting a war.

Over two thousand Americans have died in the more than ten years of that war, a war Mitt Romney has supported. Yet in his speech accepting his party’s nomination to be commander in chief, Mitt Romney said not a word about the war in Afghanistan. Nor did he utter a word of appreciation to the troops fighting there, or to those who have fought there. Nor for that matter were there thanks for those who fought in Iraq, another conflict that went unmentioned…

What about the civic propriety of a presidential nominee failing even to mention, in his acceptance speech, a war we’re fighting and our young men and women who are fighting it? Has it ever happened that we’ve been at war and a presidential nominee has ignored, in this kind of major and formal speech, the war and our warriors?

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.