WaPo Columnist: US Troops 'Naive Mercenaries' -- What Do We Really Owe Them?

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Have-defibrillator-handy alert ping to Today show list.

[Rummyfan]

This is a new low - even for Pravda on the Potomac! Some visitors from the 82nd need to drop in on Mr Arkin.....

[BenLurkin]

Sickening.

[wastedyears]

Don't tell them what our Special Forces do. They'll want every Operator hanged for human rights violations.

[JacksonCalhoun]

Is there any question now that our brave soliders and us and the right are fighting two enemies at once?

[Doctor Raoul]

You forgot to post a SCUMBAG ALERT in the title.

[o_zarkman44]

special forces need to clear out the Wa Po because it seems to be a terrorist stronghold of support.

[roses of sharon]

Bush Derangement Syndrome, political porn for these bathhouse boys and their feminist beards.

[dforest]

Rush just read this piece on his show. This is the enemy folks. According to this lowlife schmuck, our troops are supposed to be grateful to slime like him and shut up. My blood just boils!

[lafroste]

Perhaps the patriots and those who love freedom should just withdraw to Indiana or so, let the leftists have the East coast, then let the muzzies in to celebrate diversity.

10 years later the patriots can re-take the East coast and by then our liberal problem will have been abated.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Death where is thy sting? How much sharper than the serpent's tooth is the word of a thankless Arkin!

[Jeff Chandler]

Where's that Gaydar graphic?

[tcostell]

Ironically, this was the same argument used by general Westmoreland when arguing that the draft shouldn't be abolished, that a volunteer force was basically a mercenary army.

His arguments were subsequently taken apart by Milton Friedman who said that asking someone to choose to work for their own reasons, is almost always better than forcing them to do it at the point of a gun. Patriotic volunteers aren't mercenaries any more than draftees are slaves.

It's really ironic that this weasel um... respected journalist, would be channeling Westmoreland because it's probably the only time in his life he's ever agreed with him.

[RichInOC]

Fascinating...it's not every day you see a full-face Dirty Sanchez.

If you go out on the main forum, he's got a follow-up where he keeps digging. What an idiot.

[RandyRep]

Go read Uncle Jimbo's reply to Arkin at http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/01/a_hearty_f_you_.html

Warning - it's profanity laced.

Blackfive also has several other posts about Arkin's piece (of sh!t).

[paul51]

I can't help but wonder why we tolerate this kind of stuff when we are at war.

[YourAdHere]

William Arkin has body odor.

[RichInOC]

Here's the link to that (I think the barf alert is implied):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777454/posts

[ladtx]

clueless

One entry found for clueless. Main Entry: clue·less
Pronunciation: 'klü-l&s
Function: adjective
1 : having or providing no clue <a clueless case for the police to solve>
2 : completely or hopelessly bewildered, unaware, ignorant, or foolish <clueless about what they want>
3 : William Arkin