Gawker: How's that for Being Unpatriotic?
With its usual snark,
Gawker reports that the Marines have taken to using the
website craigslist to recruit new soldiers. One seargeant reports that he's had 15 contacts from the site. Concludes Gawker: "And there's 15 more Abu Ghraibs right there."
I'm not sure what disturbs me the most about this cheap shot. The appalling reflexive cynicism? The insinuation that all American soldiers commit torture? The mindless assumption that there's something automatically wrong with joining the military—or, for that matter, with military recruiting?
It's one thing to oppose the war, or be horrified by what a handful of American soldiers and their higher-ups have done. But to smear everyone who's joined or is considering joining the Marines...that's vile. The cultural left has go to hold itself to higher standards.
