Defending The Village

You know, I have my own personal problems with the Village and many of the idiots in it. But I certainly would never advocate specifically targeting them in military actions like NY Post columnist Ralph Peters.

n his latest essay, in a segment titled "The killers without guns," Peters suggests that the media is responsible for "saving" Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, but that media had "failed to defeat" the U.S. government's charge toward Iraq.

"Rejecting the god of their fathers, the neo-pagans who dominate the media serve as lackeys at the terrorists’ bloody altar," he gallingly charges.

It culminates:

Pretending to be impartial, the self-segregating personalities drawn to media careers overwhelmingly take a side, and that side is rarely ours. Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Perceiving themselves as superior beings, journalists have positioned themselves as protected-species combatants. But freedom of the press stops when its abuse kills our soldiers and strengthens our enemies. Such a view arouses disdain today, but a media establishment that has forgotten any sense of sober patriotism may find that it has become tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

Because, of course, in Peters' mind America can do no wrong:

The point of all this is simple: Win. In warfare, nothing else matters. If you cannot win clean, win dirty. But win. Our victories are ultimately in humanity’s interests, while our failures nourish monsters.

Jason Linkins over at Huffington Post evicerates this stunning outpouring of hatred.

And that's exactly what it is. Peters is certifiable. Dehumanizing Muslims as the faceless Enemy was one thing, but adding Liberals, Democrats, and even journalists to that same group is intolerable.

But then again, we torture people for false intel and the media ignores it. What moral authority do they have to complain, especially when the same journalists are the ones enabling the GOP to lie in the first place?

Maybe the Steno Pool will finally take notice that the GOP hate them almost as much as minorities, liberals, Democrats, atheists, gays, lesbians, and people who make less than six digits a year.