But They “Support” the Troops

Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard presents the “Quote of the Day” at his blog:

From the Atlantic’s new Current:

U.S. military personnel have been raping Okinawans for the last 60-plus years.

The author does concede that “the overwhelming majority of U.S. military personnel aren’t sociopaths.” At least not before they get deployed to a war zone, after which they become prone to puppy killing, murder, and suicide. One might add that journalists have been smearing the military for 60-plus years, but the overwhelming majority of them support the troops. Or so I’m told.

Would James Gibney, the Atlantic writer, have written the same about, say, gays? Or blacks? Or Hispanics?

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Prime Minister Harper Defends Obama

Reuters: Canada says leak was “blatantly unfair” to Obama by Randall Palmer

The leak of information about Barack Obama’s position on the North American Free Trade Agreement was “blatantly unfair” to his campaign, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Wednesday.

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Obama’s rival in the U.S. Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton, had seized on the Canadian information to try to demonstrate that Obama could not be trusted on foreign affairs and that he said one thing in private and another in public.