Those of you who enjoy Someone You Should Know on Pundit Review Radio know what a great guy Matthew Currier Burden is, and how much he cares about the troops. He was on Fox News yesterday, ripping into the Washington Post’s William Arkin, who had this to say on his WaPost blog,
Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order…
So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?
Here he is, Blackfive ,