[EaglesUpForever]

Pity the poor Iraqi official who had to explain to the guy that the orphanage has already got all the human shields it needs: they're called "orphans".

Brilliant! This guy can write... the above points out the complete cultural superiority complex of the bigoted "liberals" - they think their lives are more valuable than those of Iraqi soldiers, and than those of Iraqi children.

Ultimately, a "human shield" is a voluntary hostage, but I would suspect only a very few if any of them were quite sick enough to go for such a role consciously: most are simply deluded into thinking one westerner is worth 1000 foreigners, the precise philosophy of the false adversary they imagine when caricaturing conservatives.

TV is a poor substitute for an education.

[maica]

I tried to explain this attitude of the human shields to a very intelligent, but liberal, relative. He could not see that the western interloper had an inflated impression of his own importance - that HIS body would cause coordinates to be changed, when otherwise American bombs would target ORPHANS!

I said the attitude was basically racist - since white skin was worth more than brownish skin - in the mind of the HS. My b-i-l could not agree with me, but he did relent and say the attitude could possibly be elitist!

Yet this same b-i-l has no problem projecting all kinds of elitist motives on to conservatives.