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June 02, 2006
Let's Be Clear About Our Motives, Shall We?
Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse illuminates an important point about the developing reaction to the Haditha affair:
Haditha has handed our foreign enemies a propaganda victory. Why does the domestic left have to assist them in this? The answer to that question is simple; because both the insurgents in Iraq who are killing Americans and our domestic left have the exact same agenda; the defeat of the United States in Iraq.
To my knowledge, no one from the right side of the blogosphere has come close to excusing these guys' actions--if for no other reason than we don't yet know exactly what their actions were. But the Left doesn't care about fairness, or perspective, or context: everything points back to GWB. Hysteria and emotion rule.
Will the Left succeed in establishing Haditha as a metaphor for US involvement in Iraq? It think the odds are better than even that it will--the lever of the mainstream media acting will act with the fulcrum provided by the Left to amplify the actions of a few. Remember, the Abu Ghraib photos were taken over the space of a single weekend by just a few soldiers.
Thanks to Academic Elephant for the heads up.
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