Medal for "Courageous Restraint". . . .WTF?

RUSH: All right, here it is, I'm holding it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Dateline today, my version of it here is from the Navy Times, and the headline: "Hold Fire, Earn a Medal -- US troops in Afghanistan..." This would be the Yellow Heart medal. "US troops in Afghanistan could soon be awarded a medal for not doing something, a precedent-setting award that would be given for 'courageous restraint' for holding fire to save civilian lives. The proposal is now circulating in the Kabul headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, a command spokesman confirmed Tuesday. ... Soldiers are often recognized for non-combat achievement with decorations such as their service’s commendation medal. But most of the highest US military decorations are for valor in combat. A medal to recognize a conscious effort to avoid a combat action would be unique." Well, okay. I'm sorry I missed this, folks. I'm up to speed on it now. So we're going to have courageous military medal for showing restraint. If you really want to do it right, you make it posthumous. You give the award to somebody who showed restraint and died in the process. . . .

. . . . .(doing terrorist impression) "Do you mean the Americans are going to award themselves medals for not shooting? Oh! Thank you, Allah! Allahu akbar!" Can you just see this? The terrorists have to be laughing their butts off. Now what's going to happen here in Afghanistan? Now there will be immediate changes in terrorist training. Everybody will be trained to look and act like a civilian. Oh, man. Liberalism. People who hate the military. People who think the military is the focus of evil in the modern world -- and wait 'til we have that medal ceremony. Wait 'til we have that. In the meantime, we tried to convict three SEALs on trumped-up evidence of busting some terrorist lip who had murdered a bunch of Americans. Thankfully, they were acquitted, but just the idea that they were court-martialed in Iraq is amazing. By the way, I'm told this is a NATO idea and that the Navy Times story, if you read further here says it's a NATO idea. Just let France back in! France now can have a Courageous Medal for Surrender. It's a way to get France back into the upper echelon of bravery and valor.

RUSH: Hey, I got it, folks. After the courageous medal for restraint, let's have another medal -- the works and plays well with the enemy medal. Kids in kindergarten got gold stars, works and plays well with other children. Well, let's have the works and plays well with the enemy medal. You want a sample note from one of my Marine buddies? Great one, "I cannot believe what I just heard you say on the radio. Combat medal for restraint? Maybe those three Navy SEALs shoulda taken that terrorist out for dinner, gotten him a prostitute. That way they wouldn't have been court-martialed. They would have been given a medal for restraint. I can guarantee you Marines, like Lieutenant General Chesty Puller, are rolling over in their graves right now. Semper fi, Big Dick, aka, The Field Marshal." Calls his wife "The Warden."

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