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911 Title: well-known right-wing American website freerepublic supports the murder of women and children In the meantime, my column had been posted on a well-known right-wing American website, where it attracted 119 comments. Oddly, none of them displayed any hint of disquiet over the behaviour of the Marines under investigation. Rather, their outrage was reserved for John Murtha and yours truly. One poster's reaction was to "nuke the Middle East" adding "thank you very much Dishonourable Rep. Jack Murtha". He was later to write "if you can't stand behind our troops, stand in front of them". A few of his co-posters rushed to the website of Murtha's Republican challenger Diana Irey to donate campaign funds. The fact that this murdering troop has the support of even those 119 posters is worrisome. Surely, nobody should defend the indefensible based on some false notion of patriotism. Military personnel should act as ambassadors for their country and behave according to international rules of law and the Geneva Conventions that were drawn up as a result of atrocities committed during the Second World War. There should be a difference between real soldiers and ruthless thugs with public opinion the final arbiter. If the public, as represented by the 119 posters on the Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, then not only is its members giving their country's soldiers a license to kill arbitrarily, they are altering the fundamental psyche of their nation. To quote a well-known rationalist intellectual Felix Adler "Love of country is like love of women - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good." The "Freepers" - as members of the Free Republic website have come to be known - may also like to contemplate the words of theologian Howard Thurman who said "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism." In short, people who glorify soldiers who purposefully assassinate women and small children are as misguided as those who glorify the blowing up of crowded buses, trains and marketplaces. Does the donning of a uniform render its wearer impervious to justice? The Nuremberg trials indicate not... Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1. Glad you posted this TLB. There SHOULD be a war on ISLAM, just not the way most people see it. It should be a SPIRITUAL war to win their souls over to JESUS CHRIST!!! NOT just simply another human war of physical distruction, death and HELL!!! Even Ann Coulter said this.
Replies to Comment # 1. Glad you posted this TLB. There SHOULD be a war on ISLAM, just not the way most people see it. It should be a SPIRITUAL war to win their souls over to JESUS CHRIST! I agree with you coral. Not the nuke everyone crowd.
#5. To: Coral Snake (#1) "There SHOULD be a war on ISLAM, just not the way most people see it. It should be a SPIRITUAL war to win their souls over to JESUS CHRIST!!!" Sorry Snake, but I gotta disagree with you here...imho, a HolyWar/Crusade is NOT the way to win over the hearts and minds of the Arab Muslim "street"...MUD
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