Choose Your Scapegoat

In last night's tv news broadcast, Dan Rather muttered something about the so-called "fog of war" and then, without further ado, a video of the marine who shot the "unarmed, wounded" Iraqi insurgent was shown.

Fog of war, my ass. You know this goes on, every day. This guy just happened to get caught doing it. (You can see the actual video on that link.)

Unethical, perhaps. Morally wrong, perhaps. But war is morally wrong. People die in war. This is a war.

So get over it. You send them to kill, they will do as they are told.

Amnesty International is all huffy about the "rules of war." I hate to tell them, but there are no rules.

Now, I will add that video clip to the dark closet of things I wish I had never seen.