If anyone is interested in seeing what
The Weekly Standard, a
Newscorp owned,
PNAC influenced, "Neoconservative essential reading" has to say,
take a look.
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What makes us exceptional is that we stand for liberty, and that we are willing to fight for liberty. We don't need to "prove" we are different from the jihadists by bringing our own soldiers, if they have done something wrong, to justice. Of course we must and will do this. But our doing this "proves" nothing. Even if there were ten Hadithas, we would still not have to "prove" that we are "different from the jihadists." The idea would be offensive if it were not ludicrous.
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I should mention that this paper gets far-reaching readership at the whitehouse. This goes without saying considering that so many people involved with the PNAC have appointments within the Bush Administration.
But I think what's at least a cause for concern is that William Kristol would willingly write that "Even if there were ten Hadithas, we would still not have to 'prove' that we are 'different from the jihadists.'"
Does he even recognize how damaging ten more Haditha-like incidents would be for America's legitimacy in fighting the war in Iraq?? Furthermore, this will only catalyse even more insurgent uprisings in Iraq, and even abroad. How self-defeating to even think that ten more Haditha-like incidents are nothing to fear.
So what does Bill Kristol expect people to do? Turn a blind eye? Just say "oh well, shit happens!"
It's this very sort of selective thinking that is going to be the kind of thing that kills America in the long run.
My favourite part of the article however was the very beginning:
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The inquiry into the events at Haditha last November 19 is ongoing--but the Nation's editors already know what happened: A U.S. "war crime"! A military "massacre"! A "cover-up"! (And also a "willful, targeted brutality designed to send a message to Iraqis"--something a cover-up would seem to make more difficult.) The anti-American left can barely be bothered to conceal its glee.
As for the pro-American left, they write more in sorrow than in anger.
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So now there is an anti-American left and a pro-American left. Whatever that means.
What does that mean, anyway? If someone doesn't agree with Bill Kristol's POV, they are leftists? Unpatriotic? "Hurting America"? Well, at least he doesn't have the nerve to call them Godless.