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Sunday, August 17th, 2008 07:22 pm

There's nothing wrong with a nation being ashamed of its soldiers' behavior when their behavior falls short of reasonable expectations.  But a nation that is ashamed of its soldiers simply because they are soldiers is doomed.

Monday, August 18th, 2008 04:41 pm (UTC)
I tend to agree with [livejournal.com profile] house_pundit in that the public keepers of our culture are incompetent.
Sometimes I find it very difficult to credit them with mere innocent incompetence.