Letters to the Editor
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For a while back there, I thought I was beyond outrage and utter sadness
...until I read this story yesterday at Eschaton.
I'm so old...I remember seeing M*A*S*H* episodes where great care was always taken by the military brass of Congressmen's and two-star generals' sons in battle, and various other situations. The military is nothing if not a political animal, especially in the upper echelons.
It is utterly unbelievable to me that these mens' superiors did not take the greatest of care to make sure they did not come under the slightest scrutiny of the suspicion of the POSSIBILITY that these men would be punished for their words.
So much for that thought.
For any scoffing trolls out there: Just calculate the odds of two of these particular men dying, out of the 160,000 other soldiers in Iraq. If you can do the simple division...