Thanks PJM for continuing to bring this story to the forefront of the public mind. TNR would like to see it disappear for the sake of their insulated readership and their contrived agenda.
Thanks also to our troops, 99% of whom do a tough, sometimes heartbreakingly tough job virtually without complaint. Someone I love is over there right now and he and his comrades continue to carry out their mission in spite of carrying the grief of having lost close friends in recent weeks to IEDs. There is no open, widespread ridicule of anyone wounded by an IED over there, as TNR has tried to assert.
BTW, to those who have seen YouTube videos of soldiers shooting dogs: feral dogs cause a variety of problems for soldiers in combat, including possible loss of soldiers lives at times. There are times they have to get rid of the dogs. I live in a foreign country, parts of which have a severe animal control problems. I have been attacked by wild dogs and wish I could have shot them ahead of time. They spread diseases, like rabies, are aggressive in packs and live miserable lives no matter what their personalities are like. Some of them are heartwarmingly sweet, cute and charming. Like the “community dogs” at my son’s FOB, who are recipients of affection, food, dog treats, flea treatments and medical attention. Americans may shoot dogs in Iraq, but they don’t cruise around in Bradley FVs, running them down and cutting them in half, for fun, while crashing through Iraqi market stalls for even more fun, as TNR tried to assert. It doesn’t happen.
Foer and Elspeth watched too many bad lefty war movies and integrated them into their willing brains as fact. As a result, Beauchamp’s fabrications found ready-made molds in their minds, accompanied by triumphal “Aha!” moments that they experienced as truth. They couldn’t wait to publish these lurid tales to their similar-minded core readership as “evidence” of their core belief that war brings out the worst in people, and eventually turns them into craven monsters like Beauchamp. “Fact checking” wasn’t part of the process, regardless of the Army’s investigation. All you have to do is read the articles to see through them, unless you are hoping to find something that will confirm your lurid fantasies.
Sure there are some bad guys who become soldiers…just like there are unprofessional, deluded people on magazine staffs who like to cause harm, and don’t have the grace or character to admit their errors. Their god is saving their face.
