Nope, you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere, and this is the most clearly-definable and therefore best place, otherwise you go straight to the modern American model of a whole quasi-judicial Oprah-like process where a hundred opinions and "feelings" all carry the same weight.
Nope, you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere, and this is the most clearly-definable and therefore best place, otherwise you go straight to the modern American model of a whole quasi-judicial Oprah-like process where a hundred opinions and "feelings" all carry the same weight. You are essentially correct, IMO. As I said in my first post, he violated a rule, and should be punished. After all, if this kind of stuff is allowed, the paper would lose what little credibility it has left.
That said, looking at the two pictures that were used to created it, nobody can convice me that there is something "anti-troop" about it, and not the other two. If he wanted to create an anti-troop picture with photoshop, he could have done much better.
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