torture-is-us, eh, weisberg?
by
OneTokeUnder
01/08/2008, 2:44 PM #
Four thousand families are grieving (for real, and not as a tired Hillary Clinton does it) and god only knows how many people are standing by, helpless, watching a loved one fight to come back from injury, and all of this--to say nothing of those still in the war--because irresponsible and totally-devoid-of-anything-but-themselves people in the media, and such as Jacob Weisberg is, without having done anything to earn it, were put into positions of power, and they, having been duped (one hopes, for their sakes), have misled all the rest of us and so that we suffer like this.
Because we're at war and one class of us continues to die, the next election can only be a contest between someone who's been a statesman and in favor of the war and another person who's been a statesman and has always been against it. If it isn't that, the next election serves to applaud the likes of Weisberg. We owe it to McCain and Kucinich to make them the candidates. We don't owe this to ourselves, though. We would do it for the sake of integrity and because we have no choice.
The fact that almost nobody in the media has served in the military doesn't detract from what I say. If anything, it enhances it. War, death that results from war, never represented anything more to Jacob Weisberg than a minor professional hurdle, a trash can over which he stumbled. That is not according to me but is according to Slate.
Why doesn't Weisberg write the truth? Why doesn't he come out and say that those who have served, even if they died while serving, are no more important than jokes to him and his kind? Why don't you celebrate what you are, Weisberg?
