Saturday, April 03, 2004
Dem Blogger Kos on American Dead in Fallujah: "Screw Them"
I kid thee not.
(Unfortunately, I had to link to a screen shot. Kos went back and reedited his post to something else entirely.)
Kos is currently ranked number 20 on Technorati's 100 Biggest Blogs, and probably the mover and shaker for Democratic Party politics in the blogosphere. He's not normally out on the lunatic fringe. I hope this is an aberration.
I should say that I had the privilege to meet many civilian contractors and security professionals from all over the world. Most of them were there supplementing coalition forces security, or providing needed logistical or security services to US troops and to the Iraqi people.
Most of the American contractors I talked to had served 20 years on active duty with the US military in one capacity or another.
Unlike my troops, these guys could have left at any time, just by saying "I quit" and catching a ride to Baghdad or Kuwait. Instead, despite the risks, they chose to stay.
They are, in every sense, our partners. And their families, I'm sure, loved them and missed them and feared for their safety just as fervently as ours.
Anyone who tries to force a moral distinction between our soldiers and these civilians who served alongside us--who dismisses them as "mercenaries" in it for the "pecuniary interests alone," and anyone who buys into that idea, is merely displaying a frightening degree of ignorance.
Splash, out
Jason
(Unfortunately, I had to link to a screen shot. Kos went back and reedited his post to something else entirely.)
Kos is currently ranked number 20 on Technorati's 100 Biggest Blogs, and probably the mover and shaker for Democratic Party politics in the blogosphere. He's not normally out on the lunatic fringe. I hope this is an aberration.
I should say that I had the privilege to meet many civilian contractors and security professionals from all over the world. Most of them were there supplementing coalition forces security, or providing needed logistical or security services to US troops and to the Iraqi people.
Most of the American contractors I talked to had served 20 years on active duty with the US military in one capacity or another.
Unlike my troops, these guys could have left at any time, just by saying "I quit" and catching a ride to Baghdad or Kuwait. Instead, despite the risks, they chose to stay.
They are, in every sense, our partners. And their families, I'm sure, loved them and missed them and feared for their safety just as fervently as ours.
Anyone who tries to force a moral distinction between our soldiers and these civilians who served alongside us--who dismisses them as "mercenaries" in it for the "pecuniary interests alone," and anyone who buys into that idea, is merely displaying a frightening degree of ignorance.
Splash, out
Jason
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