Under Fire. The Marine has earned the benefit of the doubt.

Christ Matthews...."if we saw them do what we saw our guy do to that guy, would we consider that worthy of a war crimes charge?"

There's the rub, Chrissy boy, isn't it.

1. Those other governments would never allow anything to be shown that they didn't want shown.

2. Soldiers in the US military would not be shooting out of churches, schools, hospitals..

3. Soldiers in the US military would not be booby-trapped, nor our soldiers feigning death so they could commit suicide.

4. The enemies in this world who oppose us would not be making any effort to distinguish between the wounded and the dangerous. They double-tap them all after they mutilated them.

5. Soldiers in our military would know in a hot zone that enemy soldiers, like our own, have desperate split-second decisions to make.

So...you stand proven wrong, Mr Matthews.

Our soldiers are the best in the world. And you are a piece of Sh_t!

But today a young Marine — his name we do not yet know — sits alone somewhere in Iraq as the briefest snippet of his life is broadcast to the world, over and over again, inviting all who view it to pass their judgment on him and on the war he was sent to fight.

Bring him to Washington and pin a medal on him. Problem solved.

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We owe him that much, at the very least.

I have tears in my eyes as I write this.

At the very least? We owe him tuition to the college of his choice.

We owe him security in knowing that his family's bills (if he supports one) are not his problem until he returns from combat and is gainfully employed inside or outside the military. He should also know that his kids won't sneeze without greatful citizens of his country asking his wife if she needs any help.

We owe him a drink every time we see him out at an establishment that serves them.

What we owe him that we can never give him is the peaceful nights' sleep we have been getting while he's been playing flypaper to the terrorists who have not been attacking us at home.

The tears are because I will probably never be able to give him so much as a nickel of what he deserves, and he would never ask me to because he was just doing his duty.

Matthews should be sent to Iraq to clear the next room full of dead terrorists and tell our Marines that the room is safe.

Shalom.

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