No Contest: Pawns in the Game Called "Peace"
I don't know whether to Puke, Scream or Cry: the AP was in a hurry to post a photo of the mortally wounded Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard who was wounded in Afghanistan in August, 2009. Is this a sincere desire to showcase the horrors of war, or a White House driven agenda carried out by an increasingly lame, and dangerous, media?
Last February, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ann0unced that the ban barring photos of flag-draped coffins was being lifted. Okay, in a sane world, this discussion would be about honor and duty; sacrifice and patriotism. It would be a discussion about how to honor American dead, and treating them -- OUR families -- with the tenderness and respect they deserve, but no -- for the Left it's a referendum on the United States and how it must be brought to heel by the forces of "peace." Today Secretary Gates is decrying the "appalling" publication of that photograph. Here's a suggestion: prosecute the rodents who publish pictures like that. How would they feel if we published their loved ones dying in car accidents, or in public places? You know, to "showcase the horrors of city parks"?
The "peaceful" Left was overtly gleeful whenever the body count from the War on Terror reached some milestone or other: "100! 200! 2,000! See how right we are! See how evil Bush is! America is imperialistic!" These proclamations were devoid of kindness; devoid of patriotism; devoid, even, of intellectual acuity. Within days after Obama's innauguration, it was as if there were no war at all. No War on Terror, but . . . .
A chance to "showcase the horrors of war"!
Gettysburg, Saipan, Guadalcanal . . . the feelings of survivors were respected. But, beginning in Vietnam, the feelings of ordinary people have been held hostage to the shrill and self-righteous Left -- who now have one of their own in the White House.
I think I'll puke.
What's Right With Afghanistan, by O'Hanlon and Riedel
Not So Fast, by Mark Levin
NeoNeocon: The Vietnam Photos Revisited
Irish Cicero
Saturday 5 September 2009
Killed in Afghanistan
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4 comments:
This is blown out of proportion. People die in wars. There's plenty of pictures of dead soldiers and civvies in every form of media on the planet that's ever existed since the beginning of recorded history. If they hadn't published it Al Jazeera probably would have anyway.
So what? Don't like it, don't look.
I'd be more concerned about the various propaganda and stupid thoughts/inaccurate histories and facts constantly published than an image if one were to even be concerned about such things.
Bad taste, good taste....blah! You let people start deciding what's in good and bad taste and there go our rights to publish the images WE like and wish to publish. Censorship is like tracers. Works in both directions. You tell them they can't publish pics of dead US soldiers they'll start telling me I can't equate BHO to a muslim terrorist because it's in bad taste and he doesn't like it.
Ignore them if you don't like them. Life isn't permanent. People die. It's actually rather a significant goal of wars to get people to die. Welcome to earth. Now move along and worry about something that actually matters. Like censorship.
You can't have it both ways.
Apparently AP didn't get the memo that George Bush is no longer president. The others - ANSWER, Move On, Code Pink, et. al. have gone back into the woodwork with their faux anti war protests that were always, in reality, anti Bush protests.
So, in another time this would have been a slap at the Commander in Chief of this Marine.
See Theo's post from 20 Dec. 2008 at 09:24.
If memory serves, this young man lived to tell the tale, more or less unharmed.
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