"... why is it you feel America must prostrate itself before any provisional assertion of power can be seen as credible? You're surprised to find yourself thinking this soldier did something wrong? Really? You know very well these videos contain tactical information that can compromise military operations - for that reason alone you should not at all be surprised to find fault with what this soldier did. You know very well these videos will be exploited by ideologues who have a vested interest in undermining the beliefs and values that make a strong military possible - and so it was this video was doctored to suit that end - of all the people who have seen this video how many have seen the original, the version that makes it clear the pilots in the Apache acted in accordance with the ROE current at the time, that demonstrated their actions may have been unfortunate but not therefore necessarily unjustified? Very, very few. You know very well these 'freedoms' you speak of are conditional, not absolute - to speak about them as if they're absolute is to engage in a false argument - if you'd been a reporter in England in 1944 that had been leaked plans to Overlord and then sought to publish them on June 5th you would rightly have been stolen away in the dead of night and then probably put up against a wall and shot - the freedoms you laud are conditional.
Where does this liberal arrogance come from, this Obamaphile blind faith that imagines that 'enlightened' progressives, in direct opposition to pretty much everything history has to teach us, can remake the dynamics governing great and powerful nations so as render them more palatable to their myopic, fanciful, self-indulgent sympathies?..."
