Posted on 05/08/2007 2:14:08 AM PDT by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
I can answer you why with just a minor change: You could easily of written: "The MSM is nothing more than a couple of perverts, with a couple of accomplices who were granted sexual favors, getting their jollies.
This then is the very reason that they should be standing up for themselves and it seems that some in Iraq are finally learning that lesson.
The neighborly Samaritan had compassion for the “man fallen among thieves”, and took care of him.
And that is what we are doing by supporting the troops who are there to protect them. There are many ways to help the Samaritan.
I would hope so, but I know they wont. We were quite judicious rather than indiscriminate. The Japanese were committing horrendous war atrocities. We gave them ample warning to exit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cities that were supplying their war machine so that they could bayonet and behead defenseless old men and babies. People in China, Korea, Philippines, and American POW's would have to disagree with your statement that the bombings of japan were indiscriminate.
Useful idiots, would be more accurate, for me anyway. I mean that exactly the way that Lenin used the term. Mona Charen also does a nice job with it, in the book of the same title (which I have on order right now).
For starters, we allow the slaughter of the innocents (abortion and euthanasia).
BS. The muslim culture always blames everyone and everything else instead of looking at their violent, barbaric belief system.
Your post has an strong ring of truth to it. It wouldn’t surprise me if that wasn’t exactly what happened.
“May” be?
“Your exercise in moral equivocation is beginning to annoy me.”
Moral equivalence? No. Immoral equivalence - - -perhaps.
In no way does the past immorality of an enemy justify one’s own future immorality, so Osama can take his bogus fatwas and stuff them where the sun don’t shine as far as I’m concerned. If we can take him out, along with those who follow his doctrines, excellent.
“One, we did not engage in indiscriminate slaughter of civilians during World War II.”
Perhaps. In fact your case is made very well here:
http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.699/pub_detail.asp
However, area bombing of targets with munitions as imprecise as WWII bombs, and the (admittedly lower casualty) nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities is indiscriminate, regardless of the military doctrines that theoretically (but not practically) control their delivery. One can make a good case (as above) that, given the military and political objectives of the combatants, even more bloody carnage would have ensued if these methods had not been used. In the end they may have been “relatively justified”. Habbakuk attempts to use such an argument; it doesn’t wash. The Lord sends the Chaldeans anyway.
Historical parallels are slippery things. I hope this one fails, but see no good reason to expect that it will. Like Habbakuk, however, I will keep looking (Hab 4:17-19)
Heresy!!! Blasphemy!!! (But dead on target true!)
You are right, if this detail had been placed in the hands of some people who had been concerned about our country's best interests instead of in the hands of some low rent trailer trash with uniforms and cameras, this wouldn't have become the issue it did. I always thought that low rent Lyndie should have been shot for stupidity. Who in their right mind assigned this task to a feminazi brigadier general? New Tone my patoot. Any means fair or foul to defeat the islamic filth.
“This then is the very reason that they should be standing up for themselves and it seems that some in Iraq are finally learning that lesson.”
“And that is what we are doing by supporting the troops who are there to protect them. There are many ways to help the Samaritan.”
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I agree.
“BS. The muslim culture always blames everyone and everything else instead of looking at their violent, barbaric belief system.”
It is quite true that a certain kind of “social conservative” is blind to their own failings and compulsively engaged in shifting blame for all their ills on those they despise for failing to live up to their own righteous standards. It is also true that this is epidemic in Islamic culture, and their own scriptures give them little relief from the disease, in fact encourage it in many ways. Have you ever met such people in our own culture? There are still a few of them around, I think. At least I meet quite a few of them. Check out MoveOn.org. The place is infested with them. A few around here too.
Aren’t you glad that we have such correctives as Matt 6:14 and 7:2-5, Luke 18:9-14, and Rom 12:17-21 to fall back on?
I would be willing to bet, that instances similar to this (involving women where common sense dictates thay should not be), in the military, as well as public service (private too, for that matter), are more subject to censorship than the most vital national security issues.
And, once again, the big question has to be, WHY?
Bingo.
The news network would be biased in favor of the government.
“We gave them ample warning to exit Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Osama and his freak show companions are giving all the righteous “fair warning” to leave the “Great Satan” pronto, or at least stay away from population centers in the “Great Satan”. So, I suppose you will be retiring to your rural retreat any time now, as you heed their warning? If not, then according to your argument, “you’ve got it coming” if they manage to infiltrate some WMD to “a town near you” and take you out in the resulting mass atrocity.
Your enemy’s past immoralities are not an adequate ground for your future immoralities, though that is a common ploy in all ages. The victims of Japanese atrocities have a legitimate greivance against their assailants.
Our current adversaries do not make a distinction between “civilians” and “combatants”. We are all fair game to them. Do you agree with this practice? Your argument certainly sounds like it.
I must have a defective Bible. It only goes up to Habakkuk 3.
IIRC, references to it being a “prank” were made in relation to what went on at Abu Gharib under Hussein or in Castro’s Cuba. I recall there being a strong consensus for the prosecution of Lynndie and her cohorts.
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