All Three Navy Seals Acquitted: Sanity Prevails — At Least For The Moment
All Three Navy Seals Acquitted: Sanity Prevails — At Least For The Moment
By
Ken Eliasberg
I’m sure many of you have been following with some interest (and a substantial measure of disbelief) the court-martial progress of 3 Navy Seals who had the audacity to violate the integrity of an Islamic barbarian terrorist who orchestrated the killing of 4 Blackwater agents serving in Iraq (thereafter showing their essential good will by desecrating their victims dead bodies — we are really facing an insane enemy. Lodged in the 7th century and not only wanting very much to remain there, but to take us back to that dark age as well).One of these poor chaps, unable to contain himself, punched this bastard (oops, I mean prisoner) in the mouth, bloodying his lip - can you imagine the nerve of this guy. The other 2 just stood by and did not come to the aid of this murderous monster — where were their priorities?
I am, of course, speaking tongue in cheek — only because I am so outraged to see my country sink to this point — where heroes are court martialled and Islamist scumbags are coddled. What the has gone wrong with America? It’s bad enough that we refuse to take the enemy seriously — heck, if you mention Jihad or Islamofascist, (or, until recently, terrorist) you might expect a visit from the speech police or be accused by some left-wing nut case of being a bigot. But we have gone well beyond that; we now side with the enemy. We pursue members of the CIA or attorneys in the Justice Department for making earnest efforts to further the cause of national security by gathering much needed intelligence, but demonstrate some absurd sensitivity to the integrity of these miserable terrorist creeps.
In any event, I reported on this case (these cases) when it (they) first broke in December, expressing at the time my complete disbelief that a situation like this could even arise — that we had gone so far down the left-wing path of self destruction that we were now eating our own. Now, I realize that some member of the left-wing elite (effete) — some dim bulb, residing in academia no doubt — will crawl out from under the academic rock in which he has maintained a substantial (and undeserved) sinecure and argue that we are not really attacking our own; we are merely asserting our fundamental moral goodness so that the rest of the world can see how wonderful we are. Puuullleease!!! These blood sucking parasites on the left who hold our young folks hostage while they pump them full of Marxist nonsense are killing this country!
I have followed the disgusting path of their progress with interest and contempt — interest to try an understand the phenomenon of how allegedly intelligent people turn on their own country and contempt for their having done so. Now, of course, they argue that they are really patriots, defending their country by pointing out the error of its ways. No, they are America-hating useful idiots who are sucking the vitality out of their country. Am I suggesting that America makes no mistakes? Of course not! What I am suggesting is that, in the course, of cleaning out the bath water, you try not to throw out the baby.
I have been aware of the America-hating left for a number of decades — hell, much to my chagrin I was confronted with it here in this very newspaper when I first started writing for it. A professor, later to become a columnist, wrote a letter to the editor in which he made the case, in essence, that 9/11 was perfectly understandable since, in war, there are no “innocent civilians.” I was a bit taken aback since I was unaware that the country at large considered itself at war; hell, the Clintons (and previous administrations) had gone to great length to treat previous assaults on our integrity as merely criminal acts, to be prosecute accordingly.
Moreover, the good professor (God how it galls me that imbeciles like this our indoctrinating our young people) seemed to be suggesting that, regardless of the technicality of being at war, American foreign policy was really behind the displeasure that we have incurred abroad. By the way, I might note in passing that that displeasure is both selective and evanescent, lasting only as long as they don’t need us; thereafter, we are once more restored to their good graces. Therein lies the problem of trying to determine policy based on popularity and consensus.We have been hated — until needed - for well over a century; I remember my confusion when serving abroad in our Armed Forces a decade after our liberating Europe over the degree of anti-Americanism. I shall deal with anti-Americanism in a later series; for present purposes let me just observe that anti-Americanism abroad is fairly meaningless; leadership is about principles, not popularity. And, if you do the right thing, you can be sure that half the country or half the world, as the case may be, is not going to love you. Don’t worry about it; just do the right thing!
The anti-Americanism that bothers me, and for which I find neither explanation nor excuse, is the domestic kind that emanates from our left-wing in this country — this is despicable; I cannot abide it, and I intend to address it at some length down the road
Back to the Navy Seals — Justice did indeed prevail; the shame is that it ever had to be tasked to do so.