It’s Not BS If It’s True March 31, 2011
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics.trackback
Beck Vastly Overstates Criticism To Attack Rolling Stone Essay
A group of soldiers from the 5/2 Stryker Brigade DID commit war crimes and atrocities. Yon does not dispute this. The NCO’s and officers of the 5/2 Stryker Brigade either willfully ignored the crimes or actively covered them up. Yon makes no mention of this. Rolling Stone accurately portrayed the “motorcycle video” as one circulated by the members of the 5/2, not as one showing the members of the 5/2. Even if the actions portrayed in the video are within the army’s rules of engagement, which seems unlikely, the video itself is basically a sanctioned “snuff video” and violates the army’s code of ethics, to say nothing of basic human decency. The Rolling Stone piece was not about the majority of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan who are performing their duty honorably. It was about another group of soldiers, like the ones at Abu Ghraib, who committed large scale war crimes in full view of the officers commanding them…for long periods of time before the crimes were finally exposed. How does that qualify as bullshit?
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