printOne warbot at least wants to kill the WikiLeaker. The military runs Jihadi protection programs which recruit and shield deficient sorts like Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Jihadi who committed fratricide at Fort Hood. Or like Private Bradley Manning, clearly not military material. He is charged with helping to leak classified military documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
Now, as HuffPo reports, “U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) says that execution would be an appropriate punishment for Manning.”
The uncritical US military-industrial-congressional-media complex is so reckless. The politicos, and now even the generals, preach the practice of left-liberalism at its most extreme in every structure of the military and the government. And then, when it appears that their affirmative recruits are crappy—they can’t abide by a code of secrecy (or by a contract); or are unable to refrain from killing their colleagues—then their bosses suddenly turn bigoted and want to kill them.
These are the same generals and politicians who campaign for free and open sex for hets and homos in the military. What do they expect? Disciplined buttoned-up soldiers?!
You can’t run a liberal organization—structurally and philosophically—and expect your members to behave themselves. Left-liberalism is about license and lenience.
It’s interesting that, and I repeat myself, that Republicans don’t give a damn about the alarming truths that have come to the fore due to the leak. All they discuss is quashing WikiLeak and killing the leaker. How they love freedom. Creeps.
The tartlet brigade on tv screams about the information endangering our troops. (Gosh they’re original!)
LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS STRAIGHT: IT IS VITAL TO CONCEAL THE NUMBER OF TOOTHLESS PASHTOONS (MYRON’S MONIKER FOR AMERICA’S MOST MENACING ENEMIES) AMERICANS ARE KILLING IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD THEIR KILLERS.
What whores.
Needless to say that for those who seek the truth, the leaks are very good indeed.
UPDATE (Aug. 8): “Anti-War Activists Rally in Support of Soldier Accused of Leaking Documents,” reports FoxNews.
I think it’s obvious from my post that I don’t support a lack of discipline per se. From the material that Manning, “a 22-year-old intelligence analyst,” leaked, it would appear that he was acting as a whistle blower. Perhaps this is exactly what we need in the military—courageous whistle blowers who will pull back the curtain to reveal what the military monstrosity is doing in our name (sorry, “for our freedoms,” to parrot the warbots).
He *may* have been right to publish the docs… but he didn’t think past his own selfish motives and consider the consequences to others, particularly innocents caught in the middle.
He could have EASILY redacted the names of afghanis that are helping the US so that they WON’T BE EXECUTED. From what I’ve heard several have already been killed by the Taliban. [Provide hyperlinks please.] Hence, the call for his head.
America arms the Taliban five ways: (a) aid via the Pakistani intelligence/military, (b) oil money flowing through Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc., (c) drug money, (d) “protection money” in soldier support contracts (such as transportation) throughout Afghanistan, (e) siphoning of Afghan civilian nation-building projects. Technology such as Stinger missiles was GIVEN AWAY to them in the 1980’s. Then people have the chutzpah to say that Manning is “endangering the troops”. It is actually Presidents Bush and Obama who endanger the troops by putting them there in the first place. That American warfighters and contractors are being put in harms way without a declaration of war, without clear goals, and in instances where our national survival is not at stake is not the fault of Manning but the fault of the President(s) and their Congressional doormat enablers.
The American people, through their ignorance (such as: “they” – meaning every bucktooth Pushtun – “caused 9/11”) and the statist media, are also complicit in harming troops. Gersons who insist that the US needs to be there to install lesbian marriage and “democracy” at gunpoint on the most obscure, Neolithic, corner of the planet – are also complicit. But, heck, blame it all on Wikileaks.
“Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen.”
http://bigpeace.com/jhanson/2010/08/04/measuring-wikileaks-assange-for-an-orange-jumpsuit/
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/02/taliban-seeks-vengeance-in-wake-of-wikileaks.html?from=rss
The ‘reckless complex’ willfully refuse to admit the obvious; the ‘cause and effect’ at work in all our policies, foreign and domestic. For that, the resultant widespread hypocrisy over the WikiLeaks/Manning affair is both laughable and disgusting. Nevertheless, Manning, if found guilty of what has been so far reported, should hang.
One may take on the Ten Commandments, blithely violating each in reverse order, each succeeding violation more egregious than the previous. At some point all but the hardest heart will come to the realization they’d gone far enough. Better the ‘enablers’ and useful idiots participating in the scuttling of our nation should have such a line in the sand than no line at all.
Even whores have limits.
Manning and others failed to redact important information and are certainly subject to prosecution. By violating rules, they certainly are not entitled to maintain positions of trust.
I am skeptical whether the Taliban rely on sorting out 92,000 pages of documents of American myopia and fantasy rather than on just local information (extracted often with brute force).
Nevertheless, why do people harp on “death to Manning” while the world honors warmongers like Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama with the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE??
Another interesting perspective on the futility of American military power in Afghanistan:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080602658.html
Try as I did, I could not find anything in those linked articles explicitly stating that the guy the Taliban killed had been named in the leaked documents. Basically, the reader is left to draw the conclusion that the timing proves the link. It doesn’t.
And perhaps the Afghanis don’t read history. If they did, they’d know better than to trust the government of the U.S., with their history of betrayal of anyone they try to ‘help’. Look what happened to the Kurds and South Vietnamese for two examples that spring readily to mind.
Myron, I am with you on Woodrow Wilson. His legacy was, and continues to be, absolutely poisonous. While I sympathize with the critique of Lincoln on the part of Di Lorenzo, I believe that Wilson is the primary American President who needs to be deconstructed. We are where we are today in large part because of widespread acceptance of the Wilsonian doctrine of interventionism.
From summaries I’ve read about the leaked documents, there is no information about future troop movements, changing strategies (has the US military ever had one in Afghanistan?) or tactics, or communication codes.
As an aside, the Pentagon makes it a point to publicize weeks in advance when and where new operations will take place! Imagine Eisenhower announcing in advance his D-Day plans for the Germans. Is the Pentagon trying to kill its own troops?
In other words, the documents indicate the failure of the occupation and the daily war crimes being committed against a nation and its people that were not, are not, and never will be a threat to our national security.
We need to withdraw militarily from the Middle East forthwith. If the Wikileaks documents help in this regard, we should welcome this and all other potential whistleblowers.
I’ve not heard every news story out there but from what have seen, no one really knows what was leaked. As to Manning needing to hang, he hasn’t had a trial and the feds are good at railroading so I’ll hold off on judging until some real evidence shows itself. But, this statement in Newsweek that some people have been given a week to leave town just don’t wash. The normal Taliban MO is “Knock down the door, chop-chop, go home to supper. I think the reporters saw the stack of reports, wrote a quick yellow sheet and went to Burger King. One of these days, someone will roll up their sleeves and dig in, only then will we get the real story.
I am skeptical whether the Taliban rely on sorting out 92,000 pages of documents of American myopia and fantasy rather than on just local information (extracted often with brute force).
Myron read my mind here. Last I checked, the Afghans weren’t big on “innocent until proven guilty.” More likely they simply slash the throats of any they suspect of having ties to the U.S. military, and leave the rest in the hands of Allah.
Even if we disagree with policy and practice on how the war is being waged it doesn’t mean we should condone actions that endanger the troops more than they are normally. As far as execution is concerned I can think of many in Washington who need shooting first.
[You are hilarious. Yes, let’s get our priories right.]
James H – Exactly correct. Look, I am working on trying to keep the troops that our idiotic politicians endangered coming back intact. But the Bushes and Obamas cause more damage than the leakers.