Arianna Huffington wades in on Haditha (before the facts are known, of course) and concludes that the US armed forces are made up of dope-crazed psychopaths.
On Friday, when Haditha was brought up on "Left, Right, and Center," the public radio show I do every week, Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley immediately went into spin mode, bringing up atrocities committed by U.S. troops in WWII and claiming that "compared with any other previous war, any other army, ours is behaving with almost immaculate propriety."
It's clear that Tony and I have a very different definition of "almost immaculate propriety" -- assuming, that is, we both read the same jaw-dropping accounts of drugged up, hallucinating, and stressed out U.S. troops, "killing the wrong people all the time..."
Her solution? Surrender, of course.
The Dems seem to be having a hard time grasping that the right thing -- the obvious thing -- is for them to unabashedly say, "We are the party that will bring the troops home." A move that will keep us all safer.
I can understand a good deal of what passes for political opinion in this war, but for an American commentator to declare that the best attitude for her country to take is "stop us before we kill again" is more than a little disturbing.
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