[ArmyTeach]

My response to her ...
As you are writer of some erudition, I would appeal to you to consider several points.

You do not know that the Marines are guilty. Neither you nor I nor anyone else can know because the case has not come to trial and the evidence is not in. At this time all we have are confused reports and Hersey. Yet you see no problem in declaring our Marines tried and found guilty in the press. You have declared it so, therefore it must be so. American schoolchildren used to be taught that Americans were innocent until proven guilty. In any other context involving any other group or individual I am sure you would be appalled at the injustice before us, but - well - these are only Marines and good fodder for a political statement.

Secondly, the use of a staged massacre as propaganda strategy is not unknown or uncommon. It was practiced in Vietnam and attempted before in Iraq. It worked well then and it can work today precisely because too many Americans leap to judgment, think emotionally, react according to a political agenda rather than facts, fail to question the accusation and equally fail to place the responsibility for judgment within the proper venue - the courts, not the media.

Until such time as the Marines are found guilty in the proper course of justice, I will stand behind them against any propaganda from those who sought to kill them. Until then, to speculate is in itself an injustice.

C. Miller
Fairbanks, AK

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Thanks for the ping, Coop.

Y'all don't feed the troll. She has received more attention from the posters on this single thread than she gets from her half-vast readership in the Gulf in a week.

I'm going to have to blog on this tomorrow.

She is collaborating with Murtha to foment riots. They read gulfnews.com in Kabul.