Global warming: Time insults Marines, intelligence

For the cover of Time magazine’s April 28 edition, the editors have Photoshopped the famous picture of Marines at Iwo Jima to replace the American flag with a redwood tree for their story called “How to Win the War on Global Warming.”

Veterans of Iwo Jima are understandably upset at such a crass use of the iconic image.

For generations, that photo has represented the triumph of freedom over the forces of tyranny, a fight that cost millions of lives.

Now along comes Time, not only daring to erase the flag those brave men planted, but actually replacing it with a tree to symbolize a “war” on the mythical global warming, which more and more people are realizing is just a scam by wealthy individuals and corporations to make money from carbon cap-and-trade schemes while the rest of the world suffers with higher energy costs and abusive regulation of personal freedoms.

It takes either unmitigated gall or unfathomable stupidity to use an image commemorating the defeat of evil and enlist it in promoting the global warming movement, whose proponents have a whole laundry list of tyrannies they want to install as law.

The editors no doubt realized the image would be controversial but went ahead with it in order to elicit a reaction. Well here’s a reaction for them: disgust.