Defending Newsweek

Slow day today so a couple postings while I rock along to Regatta de Blanc (Stewart, Andy and Sting before he became a pain-in-z-butt). Seems the Pentagon is confirming the Quran was “mishandled” by interrogators at Gitmo. The ACTUAL cases involved don’t sound like the MONSTEROUS desecrations Newsweek got people killed over. One situation was “an interrogator stacked two Korans on a television set.” (GASP!!!) Well hell, that’s a reason to rile people up, get them to riot and kill each other for a good story. While some cases (details withheld while under investigation) may be more grievous from interrogators just being “mean,” or (sob, snort) "insensitive," I’m having a hard time feeling bad for the detainees at Gitmo. These are people that would cut my throat and those of my family given the chance.

As for disrespecting the Quran, what do Newsweek and the MSM expect from the state-separated-from-church they promote as the way society should be? What I mean is these interrogators may be EXACTLY the secular purists the left demands government employees to be. Perhaps they don’t understand the importance of the Quran to the detainees because they are the faithless secularists the MSM and the left demands? I could start ranting about “if-this-was-the-Bible,-the-MSM-wouldn’t-even-print-this-story-because-Christians-don’t-riot-and-kill-each-other-over-the-Bible-getting-flushed-down-the-toilet-or-burned-or-what-have-you-as-a-general-rule-anyway,-and-besides-who-cares-what-a-bunch-of-right-wing-Christian-fanatic/facists-think-anyway, but I won’t do that. The point is a faithless, secular people will do all sorts of rotten crap to each other. I can’t see a true God-fearing Christian flushing a Quran down a toilet to make a detainee cry. I could see them proselytizing to the detainees as to the violence of their misguided beliefs and trying to steer them towards redemption, but always treating one of God’s children with respect.

“GOOD GOVERNMENT, that’s worse for the CFR’s sake!!! Take those military people and humiliate them publicly before the thugs of the world think less of us!”

None of this changes the fact Newsweek got people killed by being lazy turds, no matter how hard the rest of the MSM tries to deflect attention from that crime with trivial things spun to sound large. However, if interrogators at Gitmo are really desecrating books held holy by the murderous thugs being held there, well lefties; You’re getting what you asked for with a purely secular society. Get used to it.