Progressives “Supporting” the Troops Again
Charles Johnson
Sat Jun 24, 2006 at 1:57 pm PDT • Views: 224
Here’s another “progressive” web site absolutely horrified at the “Hadji Girl” song, and even more horrified that LGF would (gasp!) defend it: Hadji Girl - Center for Media and Democracy. A typical paragraph:
It would be a mistake to imagine that the casual brutality of “Hadji Girl” is coming from people who are simply evil or racist or cruel. The soldiers occupying Iraq are normal men and women who, in other circumstances, would never commit the abuses that have been documented in Bagram and Abu Ghraib and that are now alleged in Haditha. The situations in which this war has placed them — far from home, surrounded by a foreign language and foreign culture, carrying guns and fearful for their lives — have brought out behaviors that we would not see otherwise. If American soldiers and Iraqis could meet under different circumstances, things would be different.
Found at the Mother Jones blog, where Monika Bauerlein has already convicted the Marines of a massacre at Haditha:
A lot of ink can, and will, be spilled on what makes young men blow childrens’ brains out in a war that doesn’t make sense. But a song is worth a thousand words, and there’s no more chilling (if unintentional) soundtrack to the news from Iraq these days than a song by a Marine that has lots of defenders on conservative websites.
Frank says: