[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“I cannot tell you how great it feels to be able to stop killing and start helping people.”

The Indians had a custom of "counting coup" - boasting of how they had killed in battle. They carried scalps as tokens of those killings. White frontiersmen put brass tacks in the stocks of their rifles for the macho purpose of "counting coup" in Indian warrior society.

But for the warrior who gives a quote like that there is no question of "counting coup." That we leave to savages such as the journalists who eagerly counted down toward 1000 American soldiers killed in Iraq. Killed by the people journalists were rooting for.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[headsonpikes]

Thanks for the ping - great piece!

Your comment about journalists 'counting down' to 1000 dead American soldiers is sickeningly true.