Our enemy fights among civilians as shields to protect themselves and to create dead bodies that can be portrayed as victims of war crimes--crimes that our press evidently thirsts for (at least they want crimes of our troops, that have been amazingly rare).
I'm not saying our troops are incapable of committing crimes. They are. They are human. But when on the rare occasion they do commit crimes against civilians, we prosecute them. But any problems we have with our troops pale in comparison to the deliberate targeting of civilians that our enemy does routinely. Yet our press can barely notice the crimes of our enemies.
If this so-called massacre is truly transformed into a battle by this investigation, remember how one lie by the enemy that is believed by our eager press does damage to our cause that cannot be erased by the slow emergence of the truth a year and a half later.
UPDATE: Strategypage notes the developments:
Now, some of the charges have been dismissed, others are in doubt, and it is beginning to look like the accusations of a massacre may be untrue.
I don't want to rush ahead too fast. The Marines may have done something wrong--even criminal--though there might not have been a massacre as charged. But our justice system will sort this out with Congressmen rushing to convict these Marines.
