Hurray for Time Magazine. [Never thought I would say that] But then, we know that Hitler and other monsters have won man of the year, so the choice doesn't mean the magazine approves of the military.

But Austin Bay makes a good point: the peaceniks never liberated the Nazi concentration camps nor delivered anyone else from slavery. Those who won't fight for liberty will not keep it. The Pope said that war solves nothing. Tell that to the inhabitants of the Nazi slave camps. And tell that to the slaves that rotted in the Gulag waiting for those who never came.

HoustonChronicle.com - Bay: Prepared for war and peace on Earth: "me Magazine has given its 2003 Person of the Year award to The American Soldier. "