Plus she was probably a she-Islamofascist.
That’s Islamofascistess, thankyouverymuch.

I believe that “Islamofascitrix” is actually the correct term of art.

Nonsense! I was nowhere near Kathleen’s mug this morning!

mikey

Unfortunately, reading anything she’s ever had to say pretty much rules out the “real person” possibility, and that’s an even bigger turnoff.

Speaking of reality, thanks also to Thunder for that little bit of truth in advertising.

Whether Scott Thomas is real and his reports true remains to be determined. In the meantime, it is tempting to wonder: What if we believed in American honor and victory in Iraq?

What would those dispatches look like?

Even Shorter Kathleen Parker: Clap harder, dammit!

Parker: “What could be more cliche, after all, than American soldiers ridiculing a defaced woman, running over dogs or desecrating babies’ remains?”

How ’bout her anonymous “former Delta Force” buddy emailing her that all the ’04 Democratic candidates should be lined up and shot?

http://tinyurl.com/28phmg

Hell, they’ll use it even if the guy is legit. After all, they still think (or claim) Kerry was accusing his army of war crimes, instead of reading about them during Winter Solider.

Once again, that’s what they do. And shitty journalism that submarines liberalism, on purpose or not, is what TNR does.

The more I think of it, the more I’m convinced of it.

My second thought was tripped by this paragraph:

In the case of Scott Thomas, the “truth” that American soldiers are woman-hating, dog-killing, grave-robbing monsters confirms what many among the anti-war left believe about the military, despite their protestations that they “support the troops.”

See, Kathleen (aside from the fact that you ascribe a belief to “the anti-war left” without any evidence that anybody believes it), most people who oppose the war in Iraq don’t oppose it because of what we think about American soldiers. We oppose the war because the Bush Administration lied to get us into it; because it was dismally planned and executed; because it has diminished America’s standing in the community of civilized nations; because it has exacerbated anti-American sentiment and provided a focal point for the creation of new terrorists; and because it has wrought devastation on the people of Iraq and summoned up a sectarian civil war all around them. So really, the Scott Thomas stories are, at worst, an illustration of the horrors of war, to be met with punishment for those involved if true; they are not the raison d’etre for our opposition to the clusterfuck that is the Iraq War.

Contrast this with the Michael Yon “al Qaeda cooked and served young children” story, which was widely touted all over Right Blogistan a couple weeks back as yet another in the series of events proving that al Qaeda are bloodthirsty devils who must be destroyed at all costs. That story and others like it are the justification, in the minds of the pro-war right, for more violence, more killing, more blood. “Look!” they say, sputtering Cheeto crumbs on their keyboards. “See what inhuman monsters they are! This is why we must fight!”

This has been true for many thousands of years. The young man in combat is not defined by his nationality, but by what the environment requires of him. Or perhaps what it creates FROM him. American soldiers are like all soldiers. They quickly understand that a vestigial humanity will get them and their friends hurt.

You have to look inside and find hatred, anger and cruelty. You need to turn off your other feelings, and let your hatred come to the fore. You burn away all softness. You grind down the kindness. You react with a careless brutality to all stimulus.

You see, it can’t be pretend. You understand completely that if you’re pretending to be a soldier in combat, when that moment comes when you have to do something truly, horribly inhuman to survive, you won’t be able to do it. You’ll act as a civilized human, and not a brutal killer. And you’ll die.

So to find cruel, brutal people behaving in cruel, brutal ways in a combat zone is not a surprise. It’s not news. And anyone who denies it is delusional. I cannot begin to imagine the thoughts and feelings of a 24 year old kid from Missouri on his third tour, rolling out for yet another night patrol in Diyala. But if you think that he has any humanity left inside him, you are wrong.

Don’t forget that he’ll be your neighbor, your daughter’s boyfriend, your employee one day. And sure, he’ll tamp it all down and bury it behind a veneer of civilized politeness. He may not even know it’s still there.

Over the years he’ll discover that it’s a box, once opened, that you can’t just put up on the shelf when you’re done with it. Rather, when it’s done with you they’ll put you in a box.

Physical wounds are one thing. But the human damage that war does is infinitely worse, and the consequences last for generations…

mikey

And much like with the ol’ Folgers switcheroo, nobody can tell the difference!

Louie writes: Wednesday, July, 25, 2007 3:57 PM
The New Republic has no credibility
I have one comment: Phillip Glass, Phillip Glass, Phillip Glass, the orginal TNR hoaxer.

Stephen Glass, I think he means.

But reminds me of the old joke:

-Knock-knock.
-Who’s there?
-Knock-knock.
-Who’s there?
-Knock-knock.
-Who’s there?
-Philip Glass

Just asking.

Easy. The good old “moral equivalence” meme takes care of that little inconsistency. Of course it’s plausible for the Islamofascists to do such a thing; that’s what they do!!! Since American soldiers are the inherent embodiment of all things white and Christian, it is obvious that everything they do is necessarily white and Christian. Plus she was probably a she-Islamofascist.