Tweet
Embraced moral relativism? I don't mean all of course, but I'm seeing more and more of the pols and their media sycophants do the following:
1) Posit that the abuse was done by a handful - ~6-7 - of "bad apples".
2) Claim they don't condone what happened but constantly point to what happened to Mr Berg and other Americans as if a second wrong should be downplayed because of another, worse wrong.
First, they want the prosecution of these guards to end with only those guards and ignore the chain of command as if we are so stupid we can't figure out that these guards were acting on what their superiors wanted. In other words, it's Clayton Hartwig all over again, blame, if not frame, the grunts to cover the behinds of superiors.
I've heard Bill O'Reilly a number of times argue that "justifying" or dismissing bad behavior by pointing to worse behavior is an illogical argument, yet that is the argument being embraced by these people. At least Bill is trying to remain somewhat consistent on this but
what happened to the moral compass of all these other Repubs and conservatives? The liberal says, "look at this abuse"; and the conservative says, "look at what they did to Mr Berg".
Huh?
The abuse of prisoners occured before the murder of Mr Berg and he was murdered by Al Qaeda, not Iraqis in that prison. That's like "justifying" the torture of John Doe in a prison because of what Timothy McVeigh did in Okla City. That's the rationale used by the terrorists, that because some Americans have done bad things to Arabs in the Middle East, they have "justification" to fly planes into buildings and behead innocent people.
Oh Sh*t! More bad news...
An Iraqi wedding in Western Iraq was fired upon by a US helicopter looking for a building housing foreign fighters from Syria - don't know how many are dead but women and children are among the casualties.
1) Posit that the abuse was done by a handful - ~6-7 - of "bad apples".
2) Claim they don't condone what happened but constantly point to what happened to Mr Berg and other Americans as if a second wrong should be downplayed because of another, worse wrong.
First, they want the prosecution of these guards to end with only those guards and ignore the chain of command as if we are so stupid we can't figure out that these guards were acting on what their superiors wanted. In other words, it's Clayton Hartwig all over again, blame, if not frame, the grunts to cover the behinds of superiors.
I've heard Bill O'Reilly a number of times argue that "justifying" or dismissing bad behavior by pointing to worse behavior is an illogical argument, yet that is the argument being embraced by these people. At least Bill is trying to remain somewhat consistent on this but
what happened to the moral compass of all these other Repubs and conservatives? The liberal says, "look at this abuse"; and the conservative says, "look at what they did to Mr Berg".
Huh?
The abuse of prisoners occured before the murder of Mr Berg and he was murdered by Al Qaeda, not Iraqis in that prison. That's like "justifying" the torture of John Doe in a prison because of what Timothy McVeigh did in Okla City. That's the rationale used by the terrorists, that because some Americans have done bad things to Arabs in the Middle East, they have "justification" to fly planes into buildings and behead innocent people.
Oh Sh*t! More bad news...
An Iraqi wedding in Western Iraq was fired upon by a US helicopter looking for a building housing foreign fighters from Syria - don't know how many are dead but women and children are among the casualties.
What do you mean Ramo that kids aren't killed during hazings?! Why do you think there has been such an uproar recently. Plenty of kids have died of alcohol poisoning, etc., during hazings gone wrong.
.
Comment