Jihad Jane
Contributed by J D Pendry
I wrote this in 2005, when Jihad (formerly Hanoi) Jane was hawking her book and promising us that she was coming out for her next anti-America tour. Well, it’s two years late, but here she is in all of her America and Soldier-Hating glory. Instead of writing something new, I thought I’d repost this with some minor edits. If Americans stand by once again and allow Fonda and her cohorts to demoralize American Soldiers and demonize our Country, then Americans deserve what that brings with it. During these times when our enemies can and will strike at America, we cannot afford to have the same beaten down, demoralized Military that we had Post-Vietnam. That is what we now face.
"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter...sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal...the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine," – Jane Fonda on 60 Minutes April 3, 2005.
In the United States in August of 1972 if you flipped on the AM radio, which in those days still played popular music, you'd likely hear Gilbert O'Sullivan singing Alone Again (Naturally), the Three Dog Night singing Black and White or Mac Davis’ Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me.
A 19-year-old Soldier lucky enough to have down time from patrolling the jungle, sitting in his sandbag reinforced hooch way inside the concertina wire somewhere in South Vietnam, might have heard this coming from Radio Hanoi:
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