(Video) Military wife tells off Kristol

This video has already been posted on Think Progress and Crooks and Liars.  But it does such a powerful job of bringing to life the rift between military families and the Bush hawks that I could not resist posting the video here as well.

Last week on a C-Span morning call-in show, a military wife took issue with William Kristol's disconnect from the personal strains that these soldiers go through.  Kristol was almost speechless:

CALLER: I’m sure when your head hits the pillow you have a luxury of dreamingabout anything that your mind will allow you to dream about… I sleepwith the phone under the pillow. My kids — if someone rings thedoorbell, instead of normal kids they freeze. And they’re in elementaryschool. You all don’t understand. We are military people but we arepeople, too. And the stress that we are under is tremendous.

And what was his response?  You cannot respond to something like that.  Kristol has no idea what it is like for most military families -- and neither does Bush nor Cheney.

Comments

[george]

You should have highlighted the caller's comment on the draft.

Kristol deserves to hang. He's an evil, pathetic, selfish, unprofessional, coward.

[Tony]

Kristol had NOTHING. Zip. Notta. His little smirky faced self needs to be shipped to Iraq and dealt with by the troops. Naturally they would first watch some videos, perhaps something put together by Gravel?