Update to a previous story. Ali Musa Daqduq was the mastermind behind a 2007 terrorist attack in Karbala, Iraq
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Via Allen B. West
I am quite certain the world is upside down.
Perhaps I am simplistic, but I think the job of our military — our warriors — in combat is to win. And ugly though it is, you generally do that by breaking things and killing bad guys. Nobody said that combat should be pretty – unless of course, you’re part of the group who danced in drag on Okinawa recently. They were all very pretty. Particularly the men.
But I digress.
The world is upside down because the warriors we train to send into battle, to do our ugliest work, against the ugliest enemies, are more and more treated like criminals when they do the jobs we’ve trained them to do.
Such was the case with Michael Behenna. I’m sure you’ve heard of him. The former Army First Lieutenant made a split-second decision on the battlefield when he was questioning a known member of al-Qaida.
Behenna said, “He throws a piece of concrete and it hits right by my head, and by the time I turned around to look, he stood up. He stood up like he’s coming at me, so I’m thinking he’s gonna take my weapon and use it on me.”
So in that split second, Behenna instinctively shot Ali Mansur and killed him. For that action, Behenna was convicted of unpremeditated murder in 2009 and sentenced to 15 years in Ft Leavenworth prison. Last month, he was granted parole after serving 5 years.
Right and wrong have become so muddled up in our society. Evan Sayet in his book The KinderGarden of Eden: How the Modern Liberal Thinks, talks about the Indiscriminateness of liberalism, in that there is a total rejection of the intellectual process as an absolute moral imperative. We can no longer agree on what is right and what is wrong – because discrimination of any kind is forbidden for the Left.