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REVEALING WP EDITORIAL ABOUT BYRNES: "AN ARMY AFFAIR"..
Yesterday's editorial from the Washington Post almost sounds like a "conspiracy theory" and if you are reading between the lines there's a tendency of the MSM trying to awaken the ghosts of Abu Ghraib again - which up to our nowadays knowledge was another "clever" stunt to make the troops look ridiculous and to pour even more oil into the fire of the promotion for the "Clash of Civilizations".
The "meat" although is in the last sentence in the relatively "unsuspicious" form of a quote of Jesuit-educated Francois Marie Arouet better known by the name of "Voltaire" (one of France's "greatest" writers and philosophers) - which is nevertheless very revealing by creating a bridge to the British army...
DESPITE MYRIAD hearings, investigations and prominent trials of privates and specialists, no commissioned officer has received serious punishment for any of the many confirmed cases of prisoner mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Two of those involved in the Abu Ghraib scandal have received letters of reprimand. One was demoted. None has been court-martialed.
By contrast, Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes, 55, a four-star general who served 36 years in the Army, was abruptly relieved of his command on Tuesday....
(snip)
...From this incident, it is possible to draw only one conclusion: It's okay for officers to oversee units that torture civilians and thereby damage the reputation of the United States around the world, do terrible harm to the ideological war on terrorism and inspire more Iraqis to become insurgents. Having an affair with a civilian, on the other hand, is completely unacceptable and will end your career.
It's true, of course, that we don't know all the details of this case, and it is possible that some aspect of it will justify the dismissal of Gen. Byrnes. But if there is a justification, it had better involve national security at the very highest level.
As it stands, the case reminds us of nothing so much as Voltaire's paraphrase of a British justification for the pointless execution of an admiral in the 18th century: "In this country it is found requisite, now and then, to put an admiral to death, in order to encourage the others to fight."
So we are not in the 18th century anymore. And quoting Voltaire as well as comparing the codex of one of the most brutal armies the world has seen - the BRITS - with the US Mil. might be not the "cleanest" pull...
But - nevertheless - this editorial confirms our line from the beginning of this "affair" - that the "extramarital affair" is nothing else than a potemkin village - a ghosttown...
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