It was a stupid tweet of someone who is not stupid.
Meghan McCain criticized the ability of parents who raise a capricious kid.
She wondered if the mother, A Deputy Director of the CIAshould always have a job.
For what?
Because this mother and her husband lost control of their young adult son, who is stupid at war in the name of Vladimir Putin“S Russia and Died on a battlefield fighting Ukraine.
Their boy had an eccentric sequence which brought him to regions distant from the world by promoting environmentalism, feminism, communism and the Palestinian people.
He threw shade into his country of origin, the United States. He posted a video of a burning American flag and told his friends that he was ashamed of being from here.
He was the antithesis of his parents, who The two served their country honorably in the American navyAs Meghan McCain's famous father once had it.
And McCain blamed parents.
Meghan McCain blames parents for their son
Born in 1984, Meghan McCain is an internet child.
It is a tweeter machine that understood how to use the X platform which was twitter before Elon Musk bought it and broke its grip of left censorship.
Her opinions are impactful and irreverent, and she does a lot of swings on the left and right.
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Even now, as she is busy raising two small children, she builds Support And Public 2way With it taking on American culture and politics when it remains engaged in the broader world.
Sometimes when you engage the world, you reveal too much. And on April 25, McCain showed his own ignorance In a tweet:
“If you cannot even make sure that your own child does not become an anti-American and pro-Islam communist who joins and fights in the Russian army against Ukraine, you may not have to have a higher job in the CIA …”
When I read that, I laughed.
It is clearly the opinion of someone who has never raised adolescents, I thought.
In due time, she will learn and she will regret it.
McCain forgot the story of the prodigal son
McCain had concluded a new version of an ancient history. Christ said it as the parable of the prodigal son, the child who is getting lost.
In the biblical account told in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 15: 11-32), a capricious child of a rich man makes a long semard of sin and debauchery, stifling his inherited wealth and finally sliding towards this last scale of the professional scale – herd breeding.
Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Republican senator John McCain d'Arizona, speaks during a commemorative service for his father at the National Cathedral of Washington in Washington, DC, on September 1, 2018.
A more modern version was told on April 25 at Istories About Michael GlossA young man who grew up in the green suburbs of Washington, DC, the privileged son of the parents who devoted a good part of their adult life to the defense of America.
Gloss's mother, Juliane Gallina, is a Deputy Director of the CIA for digital innovation.
She graduated from the US Naval Academy and became the first woman to serve as commander of the Naval Academy Brigade in 1991, Istories reports. For 30 years, she has been working in intelligence.
Gloss’s father, Larry Gloss, is also a veteran of the American navy and a veteran of the war in Iraq. He was decorated for his service in the Desert Storm operation.
Michael Gloss fought for Putin in Ukraine-Russia War
Last year, the couple learned that their son died. On April 25, they read in the story of the Istories that their boy, in Russia, had chosen to enter Putin meat – the invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
On the battlefield, he was taken in an artillery dam and died of “” “massive blood loss“Reported the Washington Post.
He was among 172,000 Russian troops deceased And 611,000 injured in the Putin illegal war, reports the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
That a child on the left of the American patriots takes up arms for a Russian tyrant is a puzzle. It is a long distance within two kilometers and the values of the house in which he grew up.
Michael, 21, was suffering from mental illnessThe post reports, and had stopped taking medication to treat his illness.
As a little boy, he was different, said his father. “If you knew our son, he was the ultimate antistablishment, the young anti-authority man as soon as he came to the world,” Larry Gloss told post.
The brilliant was attracted to the radical left, despite his parents
He grew up by loving the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and he was attracted by the policy of the left and the radical left. His muse has led him to places like Italy, where, according to his NECRology, he learned sustainable agriculture through agricultural work.
He went to Türkiye to help rebuild the structures damaged by earthquakes.
He went to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to join a counter-cultural movement inspired by Woodstock, the post reported.
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Finally, he would go to Russia for what his parents believed to be the fulfillment of a dream to help build a water purifier in certain parts of this country which lacked clean water.
Instead, he died while fighting the war of an attacker.
“I can only attribute it to his mental illness,” his father told post. “This clearly challenges logic.”
Parents who have raised adolescents can sympathize
Any parent who has raised adolescents will instinctively sympathize with glosses. “Teenage” is the child's scene when parents learn: “Oh, we do not decide the direction of the future of our children.”
Our children do it.
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When I was about the age of Meghan McCain, some of my older work colleagues tried to warn me.
“A day when your children are teenagers,” said a colleague, who was a superb parent, “they will ask you for your advice.”
Then his face changed. He grew up in angry. His eyes were sailing and his voice got up.
“They don't want your advice!” They don't want your advice! “
When she calmed down, she explained: “They only say that they want your advice. They never take it. “
Who knows what triggered this, but the frustration was real.
One day, McCain will know what we are doing
I have a sister and a brother-in-law who raised the four biggest girls. Strong values. High ethics. Parents have embarked on all aspects of their lives. And everything seemed perfect fishing, until one of those girls turned into a drug addict of methamphetamine.
Hell was raining.
I heard him in the desperate calls of my sister, who told me in tears that her 16 -year -old child, now emaciated and marked from self -harm, would never be 20 years old.
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The hard work and prayers and enormous attention was focused on this child. His own life sisters sometimes wanted all this attention to black sheep.
But this black sheep, this prodigy, finally found itself and began to make good decisions. She continued to recover drugs, at university, to obtain diplomas with honors and medical schools. Now a doctor, she is about to take a new job in a large trauma center on the west coast saving the children of others.
Today, when my sisters and I meet, we like that our main work as parents was to keep our children alive.
You have to experience this to find out.
One day, Meghan McCain will have adolescents, and she will understand.
Phil Boas is editorial columnist for the Republic of Arizona, where this column initially published. You can send him an email to phil.boas@arizonarepublic.com
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