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July 12, 2006 In his recent opinion piece: “Atrocities understandable but inexcusable” Dan Thomasson wrote: “Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated American in World War II, said that he went crazy when he saw a buddy die so he went out and killed a lot of German soldiers.” He then wrote: “Gentle Sgt. Alvin York of World War I responded much the same way.” Then he wrote: “It seems inevitable that every conflict like the one being waged in Iraq against faceless forces ultimately produces instances that break the boundaries most Americans believe are acceptable in warfare. So it is less than surprising that a group of Marines is being investigated in connection with the massacre of unarmed civilians in Haditha – killings apparently triggered by the anger of losing one of their own.” Huh? What was that? Every conflict…ultimately produces instances that break the boundaries most Americans believe are acceptable in warfare.” Mr. Thomasson equates the heroism of Audi Murphy and Alvin York with the alleged murders in Haditha, Iraq. “Every conflict…” Audie Murphy “went out and killed a lot of German soldiers…” Audi Murphy just grabbed up a gun and burst into those innocent Germans who were keeping his men pinned down, killing them one at a time. I am sure that “broke the boundaries most Americans believe are acceptable in warfare.” I am sure Americans would think more highly of Audie Murphy had he sat in his foxhole and done nothing, or perhaps surrendered his command to the enemy.” And “Gentle Alvin York…” should have given up too. He should have turned pacifist right there on the battlefield! He should not have taken his rifle and forced the enemy to surrender. How dare he “break the boundaries…acceptable in warfare”! Mr. Thomasson follows up his comparison with this tripe: “Responding with uncivilized ferocity to the threat of a foe indiscernible from everyone else until he suddenly kills you is the quicksand of urban warfare that sometimes sucks even the most disciplined forces into the realm of murderous behavior. There’s that ‘murderous” comparison again! Did Audi Murphy and Alvin York commit “murder” in World Wars I and II? Was the response of either man that of ‘uncivilized ferocity” or was it a fearlessness that determined only a fierce enemy would die while comrades-in-arms would live? Were the German troops face in these wars “indiscernible from anyone else”, causing any single group of innocent people to be killed? Mr Thomasson goes on and on explaining comparisons to atrocities recorded in Korea, Vietnam and the American Civil War. His insinuations of guilt for the Haditha Marines run the gamut: “Nor is there any validity in the excuse that these acts are commonplace among other armies, that they go unexposed for the most part. Perhaps some do, but US soldiers aren’t supposed to be terrorists.” So Mr. Thomasson falls into the club of liberal presentation that has already tried and condemned any soldier in Haditha in November of 2005. He also managed to bring two of America’s greatest modern war fighters under the umbrella of “uncivilized murderers”. I suppose Mr. Thomasson cannot “excuse” the “atrocities” committed by Alvin York and Audie Murphy either. Morons come in all sizes I guess. And as I’m discussing Haditha and morons, let me address this from Arianna Huffington’s June 12th: “What Haditha means to our safety – and ‘06” which is really just a column about how the Democrats can exploit military tragedy to get elected. She wrote: “…I have a very different definition of “almost immaculate propriety” – assuming that is, we both [Tony Blankley, and Huffington] read the same [liberally slanted] jaw-dropping Newsweek accounts of drugged-up, hallucinating and stressed-out U.S. troops, “killing the wrong people all the time.” Huffington doesn’t care about percentages or perspective. Terrorists and Islamic radicals killed 20 times more the innocents that have ever died at the hands of Americans. Never mind that. Our soldiers are “drugged-up” and “stressed-out” and “killing the wrong people all the time”. And she added: “ So let me clarify what [propaganda effect] means: It means the killings in Haditha – like Abu Ghariib, like Baghram, like Guantanamo, like the everyday unheralded horrors perpetuated on innocent Iraqi civilians – have made America less safe.” She insinuates that American soldiers kill innocent people ‘everyday” as a matter of fact. She concludes: “If Democrats can make this their defining issue they can stop worrying about the laundry list of “what ifs”…” And that is her bottom line. As long as Democrats benefit at the polls, all is well. Huffington, like Clinton, Murtha, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Durbin, Biden, Sheehan and others are looking to exploit Haditha and other military actions into a “redeployment” they can take electoral credit for. They don’t give a damn how any of that rhetoric might affect the military. ------------ About the Author: Michael John McCrae has contributed over 500 articles to Useless-Knowledge.com. Email: macswordV@hotmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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