Like other conservatives, I occasionally scan the headlines on lefty sites to see what liberal-minded Americans are thinking about the big stories. Scanning the Huffington Post today produced the normal rasher of Bushilter spin. The general undertone of many posts seemed to be a worry about how Israel's US-blessed operation is doing serious damage to our Arab street credibility. I would posit that it's hard to lose something that never existed.
Oh yeah, and Joe Lieberman is still a traitor.
But the real clincher was a story headlined, "AP: US Soldiers Were Under Orders To “Kill All Military Aged Men” In Iraq..."
For those who simply browse headlines that's a pretty stiff statement, conjuring up fascist images of a secret doctrine well-hidden from the public. But when compared to the actual AP headline, which was, "Soldiers say ordered to kill young men", it's revealed as sensationalistic tripe.
If you go one step further and read the story the headline appears even more ridiculous. It's a sad tale about four soldiers accused of murder and raises a compelling question about fighters in war zones being accused of murder for essentially following orders. Evidently in this case the orders were to kill al Qaeda operatives holed up on an island, but civilians were involved and used as human shields.
The case actually appears to be a microcosm of a larger question--how do we go about prosecuting a war against terrorists while still maintaining our rules of law and, more importantly, stopping the terrorists? It's a tough, nonpartisan issue, but it seems Ariana and her ilk continue to believe the answer is by getting rid of Bush, whereupon sweetness and light will befall the earth making all problems disappear. In other words, same ole same ole.
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