[Former Military Chick]

>>We suppose he was only doing his job, too. But that doesn't mean the rest of us have to indulge in the moral abdication that would equate deliberate televised beheadings of civilians with a Marine shooting a terrorist, who may or may not have been armed, amid the ferocity of battle.<<

Why do feel like saying blah blah blah!!

[26lemoncharlie]

Let's consider wiping out Aljazerra.

[xJones]

Y'know, it would be difficult to get even Fox to show one Muslim beheading. It would be XXXX rated for horror. Maybe one could be put on a Pay For View channel?

This trashing of our proud Marines, our finest fighting force, in the middle of a battle zone is too much. Damn NBC and Kevin Sites.

[Salamander]

"Why do feel like saying blah blah blah!!"

Because "yada yada yada" is so passe'?....:)

[alloysteel]

The lamestream media wasted a LOT of moral capital in their outrage with the scenes of Abu Ghraib, how could they really differentiate between that and the swift reaction of a Marine in a combat situation?

In the one example, there were clearly GIs exceeding their authority, but no lasting or permanent harm occurred. In the other, an enemy combatant made an unwise move in the presence of a keyed-up Marine, and a summary resolution of the situation was quickly carried out.

A young LT (JG) John Forbes Kerry beached his patrol boat, which had just been fired upon by an enemy combatant on shore, leapt ashore, with weapon in hand, and pursued on foot a fleeing wounded teenager who MAY have been the enemy combatant, and shot him in the back. For this he was awarded a Silver Star.

In which of these incidents was there the 'fog of war'?

[ThirstyMan]

Have we lost all sense of moral proportion?

Ask a harder question.

[shubi]

I suspect the only reason we are not taking out Al Jaazera is because they are actually an intelligence function of the U.S. They probably are giving us information about the location of terrorists etc.

[Route101]

...What are our priorities??...finding out why a marine saw fit in the heat of battle to waste a terrorist or
find out who got medieval on some poor woman who's legless and armless torso was found in the middle of a road in hell??...I tell you folks...until we stick political correctness where the sun don't shine.....

[Jaxter]

There's a poll on whether or not the Marine in question should be prosecuted or no at Bill O'Reilly's website.

[TomGuy]

As aggravating as the media reports are, they are nothing new. The same lib media decried the US military operations in WW2 and other wars.

The same lib ideology permeates the 'progressive caucus' in the House of Representatives. The same lib mentality reeks in much of European politics.

When a fraternity-level bunch of pranks--immature, yes, but not harmful--at AbuGhraib gain more msm coverage than real atrocities of limbs being cut off, beheadings, mass murders, et., that speaks loudly what the msm is all about.

MSM have surpassed the National Inquirer as sleaze. The NI does have breaking, real news occasionally. The NI was one of the first to print about the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal.

[lepton]

At the point where faking surrender becomes a battle tactic, there is no such thing as surrender. The crime is by that terrorists fellows who have repeatedly faked surrenders, not by the Marine who had to deal with it.