How did Bruce not learn this in school? (The Story of a Human Shield)

Edmonton Sun ^ | March 9, 2003 | TED BYFIELD

[The Toad]

It gradually occurred to them, he said, that they were being "used" for propaganda purposes.

Really!!!??

Gasp.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

idiocy-on-display ping

[Paul Atreides]

It's also pathetic to think that some of these anti-America folks think that putting on plays of Lysistrata can have an effect on things.

[woofer]

The apparent effect of this man's education has been to wholly immerse him in a fantasy world where there are no really bad people (apart of course from the Americans), where no war ever needs to be fought, where every international controversy can be settled by goodwill and rational negotiation and where things like "human shields" can affect military conduct.

In short it is a world where bad things need never happen, where all people are at the core really nice, and where good intentions and above all "tolerance" will solve all problems. And the sky is colored a mauvish shade of aquamarine green.

[Blue Collar Christian]

"One wonders: Has the modern educator considered this?"

I believe the modern educators have not considered this, as they are fundamental communists/pacifists that have not gone to Bahgdad yet themselves to see that there is another evil agenda besides their own, where they could get killed in the process of destroying American freedom, and not by the peace loving Americans they hate so much.

One day the peace loving Americans that they hate ARE going to kill them if their survival skills(i.e. we better leave Iraq, we could get killed)keep them back here where safety for them has been paid for by those they hate.

[mountaineer]

Is secluding people from the patently obvious, producing a kind of bovine gullibility and something close to absolute historical ignorance their ultimate objective?

From what I've seen coming out of U.S. colleges and universities, the answer is absolutely yes.

[Blue Collar Christian]

The women in my world find REAL men attractive, not sissies that would stop a war to get laid.

[woofer]

In any event, said McRae, he and his colleagues discovered that the Iraqis were constantly interviewing them on television to let them express their views on the United States.

It gradually occurred to them, he said, that they were being "used" for propaganda purposes.

I wonder just how many whaps upside their heads it took for the "shields" to reach this conclusion that was so glaringly apparent to almost everyone else.

[Paul Atreides]

You have to consider that this is the type of guy who, most likely, believes that the American Indians lived in peaceful, bucolic splendor before the evil Europeans came along, that only white people can be racist, and that only America has evil intentions.

I really wish people in the media, who are critical of these anti-America protestors, would stop trying to assign noble intentions on their part. They are against us, and that is all there is to it.

[Petronski]

TRUTH: [T]he Iraqi government has higher expectations of the American military than do the peace activists.

[Welsh Rabbit]

My college is currently casting for that play. These vapid lefties just follow one idiotic trend after another.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

"They all shared one trait," reported the London Telegraph. It was "naivete." wonder how many words were rejected by the editor before they agreed on "naiveté"

Stupid
Unintelligent
Thick
Brainless
Slow on the uptake
Dense
Obtuse
Dim…..

[Paul Atreides]

You forgot, "traitorous."

[Free_at_last_-2001]

has a wisp of a chin beard, a former student politician, human shields, "used" for propaganda purposes.. one word Drugs!

[ConservativeNewsNetwork]

Bruce isn't the enemy. You give him too much credit. He's a mere pawn in the game. The people that are the enemy are those that have lead him to believe as he does. Bruce is too stupid to ever think anything out - it must be told to him in one syllable words, or, in this case, it has to be made blatantly obvious that he has a very good chance of dying because of his own stupidity.

'Pissant' was invented to describe people such as Bruce.

[HardStarboard]

Regardless of his apparent enlightenment, I still think he will someday be a candidate for a "Darwin Award". He came close this time.

[Tacis]

Why can't we all just get along? I know, lets make a fire and sing Kumbayah.

I am certain that within a month of our taking Iraq, there will be some sort of terror attack in the US. Dashole and some of the ultra-left wingers from Hollywood will claim that the attack is a result of taking Iraq. Now, that will be naivate!

[observer5]

"he conceded that things had not turned out as expected for himself and his fellow "shields."

You mean it wasn't like going down to the Mall...?

[hippy hate me]

he saw the western news reporters, equipped with bullet-proof vests, satellite phones and chemical weapons suits, it alarmed him.

And so he suddenly realized packing sandles and a bongo drum didn't seem like the great idea it was once thought to be.