U.S. Marine Blasts Khizr Khan's 'Hypocrisy' for Aligning With Anti-MilitaryDemocrats
And says it's ironic because Trump is trying to protect Americans from he very people who killed Khan's son.
8.1.2016
There have been few if any people, including on the right, willing to question the claims made by Khizr Khan -- father of fallen Muslim-American solider Humayun Khan -- at the Democratic National Convention.
In fact, many Republicans, like Sen. John McCain, have openly denounced Donald Trump's recent remarks in which he intimated that Mrs. Khan's Islamic faith precluded her from contributing to her husband's remarks that night (in other words insinuating she wholly deferred to her husband).
While Republicans again allow themselves to be tarred and feathered as bigots, one U.S. Marine went where few beholden to political correctness dare to go: He criticized Khan -- albeit respectfully -- for his hypocrisy.
The letter, written by former Marine Scout Sniper Chris Mark, explains what it means when a solider sacrifices for his country. He also explained why he found Khan hypocritical for speaking on behalf of a political Party whose members routinely booed the military and police force during their convention.
Mark prefaces his letter to say he is both respectful and grateful to Mr. Khan's son for his service, then adds:
As a veteran, I watched your comments at the Democratic National Convention with a mixture of sadness, and anger. The United States has a military comprised of volunteers. Every single member has made the conscious choice to join the military and serve. There is not a single service member who has been forced into service. [...]Does it matter whether Mr. Trump has sacrificed “…nothing and no one?”…has Ms. Clinton “..sacrificed” for this nation? How about Mr. Obama? Your comment stating that Mr. Trump “…has sacrifice no one” is alarming. Are you intimating that YOU sacrificed? Sir, your son willingly sacrificed himself. As a father I cannot imagine the pain you must feel but his sacrifice is his own. He was not forced to serve.
Then comes the crux of Mark's letter, in which he questions how Khan could support a party that routinely shows contempt for the military:
I am troubled that you would allow a party that has little more than contempt for the US Service Member to parade you into the DNC to denounce Donald Trump. Did you watch when protesters at the DNC booed and heckled Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Florent Groberg? Did you notice your party interrupting the moment of silence for slain police officers? Your own hypocrisy in not denouncing these acts and instead using the DNC as a platform to make a political point is disgraceful. [...] Your condemnation of one person for a statement while standing idly as your party disparages veterans and police officers is the height of hypocrisy.
"To conflate the need to prevent potential terrorists from entering our country with the belief that 'all Muslims' should be banned is simply wrong and disingenuous," added Mark before clarifying that Trump's proposed ban is intended to be a temporary measure to protect Americans from the very people who killed Mr. Khan's son:
The irony of your son’s own death at the hands of these very people in Iraq should not be ignored. I have little doubt that your son would have recognized the need to protect our country from these very people. In fact, he held is own troops back so that he could check on a suspicious car. Your son understood sacrifice and how to protect “his people”…’his soldiers’….’his fellow Americans’…As you continue to make the media circuit and bask in the glow of affection cast upon you by a party that has little regard for your son’s own sacrifice, and veterans in general, I would ask you to consider your comments and your position more closely.
Respectfully,Chris MarkUS Marine and Navy Veteran.
Of course Mark's letter will likely get little if any mainstream media attention. And why would it? The Khan's are now Democrats' poster-children as victims of so-called Islamophobia.
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