Demonizing U.S. troops and sugar-coating the enemy

Christine Williams at the Stonegate Institute wrote a fine article yesterday, The Public Lynching of American Troops, (excerpt below) discussing how:  "The global fight for Western democratic freedom is being undermined from within through obsessive unbalanced reporting: it demonizes US troops, while perpetuating a dreamy unawareness about the enemies we face." 

The topic isn't new and the facts are not surprising to many of us, but it is something we need to make Americans aware of before we commit one more member of our military to any type of action in the Middle East (or any place on earth).  We have too many on the Left in this country who share the same negative view of America that our enemies have.  It's time to get them out of political office, out of the media, and out of our schools, and out of the Military.

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While acts of cruelty and violations against the Afghan people by any of our Western troops should never be condoned, the unscrupulousness of the one-sided approach to reporting needs to be highlighted, as well as the impact this has on our case for democracy and on troop morale; not to mention the unsupportive, one-sided approach their own Commander-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, has to the "crimes" of his own troops.

A U.N. report released in March 2011 indicated that in the Afghanistan war, 75 percent of deaths were from Taliban and local insurgents, not coalition forces. In fact the U.N. indicated that 2,777 civilians were killed in 2010. The U.N. report also pointed out that American Aid Workers trying to help the Afghan people were targeted by Taliban forces.

A document released by the Defense Department provided a clear picture of the enemies that our troops face in this war. Al Qaeda images and cartoons on how to torture a captive were revealed in which meat cleavers, blow torches and electric drills were used to torture and force information out of their victims. Yet, the public relations lynching against our troops continues with the under-reporting of the facts about our enemies. Eyewitness testimony before American troops arrived in Afghanistan, describe people packed into containers then suffocated in searing midday heat; hospital patients murdered in their beds, throats slit in front of family members; butchery, rapes, the frenzied firing of machine guns on innocents, leaving bodies littering the streets. Another report described the torture and murder of a pregnant woman, and the nose and ears of another woman chopped off by her husband for allegedly dishonoring him.

These examples represent a fraction of incidents, and reveal but a glimpse of the environment the troops face, further outlined in a Department of State file. Such conditions most probably have an incalculable psychological effect on our troops who witness such savagery, especially when the incidence of military suicides are a concern.

The chant of our enemies is that America is evil, capitalism is evil, America is arrogant, America is an oppressor, America is the Colonialist --- the great Satan, while Israel is the little Satan, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu recently remarked when he described America and Israel. Yet such narratives do not exclusively emanate from Islamic regimes; much of it is articulated by national ideologues who hold America and the West to the uppermost standards of morality but who seem not hold even the lowest standards for our enemies. The question "Why" has been attributed by some to "white guilt", yet there is a paradox to this: ironically, to attribute negligible standards of morality to a foreign society is the ultimate form of self-superiority and arrogance. It implies that the victims matter so little that we accept violations of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the question of judging the brutishness of the rulers, their morbid atrocities against their women and children are of little concern and consequence. A convoy of 41 young children that was headed for a suicide bombing training facility in Pakistan from Afghanistan was recently apprehended. Apparently the children's parents were lied to by the smugglers, who told them their children were being carried to religious schools for education. Even though this incident was reported, it was hardly emphasized.

America is at war with forces that seek conquest -- both physically and ideologically -- and are willing to use any means to do so. The global fight for homeland security and Western democratic freedoms is being undermined from within through obsessive, unbalanced and graphic reporting: it demonizes U.S. troops and culture, and indoctrinates Western populations into self-scorn, while perpetuating a dreamy unawareness about the enemies we face.

 

Comments

[Jenny the Pirate]

This is so horrifying, Debbie. So terrible and so wrong. I fear the time for "waking up" is past and all there is to do now is try to claw our way back to some semblance of sanity. But it's going to be a long, hard climb. The first thing that must be done is to get Obama out of office. If he gets reelected, I fear all is lost. I'd vote for my mailman before I'd stay home on election day. We need to get behind the GOP candidate and stop sabotaging our own party.

[GoneWithTheWind]

I was in the military from 1964 to 1984. I saw first hand the poor treatment our vets received from the left because of the left wing political view of the Vietnam war. After 9/11 there was an awakening of patriotism and spitting on returning soldiers kind of fell out of acceptability. So the left has simply changed their technique. They still hate the military they just can't spit on them in public anymore.

[A-Big-Bucket-Of-Sunshine]

Our freedom loving way of ife is being eroded by the "useful idiots" of the Left in ALL Western counties. If they can't silence you by the usual means of calling you a racist, Islamophobe (I particularly like these two imaginary excuses because they are so easily disproved), then the ruling Leftist Liberal Elite introduce their own brand of "Sharia" with moronic legislation that makes it a criminal offence to criticise muslims or their ideology of Islam even if you're stating FACTS about the subject. I say withdraw ALL our troops from ALL Islamic countries. Withdraw ALL aid (monetary or otherwise) and let them know in no uncertain terms that if they send or allow ANY vile terrorist act to be commited on non Islamic peoples then they will be bombed back into the stoneage which they seem so zealously attached. Starting with Mecca then moving outward.

[Skunkfeathers]

On one hand, I don't want to live to see the day that libtards have successfully imposed their marxist will on the rest of us; on the other hand, I'd rather like to see the look on Ed Schultz' face, when the Islamofascist has a machete laying across the back of Ed's neck. Ed: "But I'm your friend!" Islamofascist: "Thank you, infidel useful idiot. Here is your reward!" as the Islamofascist starts sawing off Ed's head.

Wake up you leftist morons.

[alice]

I totally agree with you.

[Always On Watch]

Speaking of sugar coating, see this:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/afghan-jihadi-soldier-murdered-marine-on-feb-1-pentagon-lied-about-cause-of-death.html

Makes my blood boil!

[Debbie]

AOW, I saw that this morning. I'm sure they tried to keep this 7th killing of a US soldier/marine under wraps from the media.