Monday, May 24, 2004
Two-faced creatures...prisoners of the twilight zone...changing features...contradiction to the bone...
Jack Wheeler, pundit extraordinaire from NewsMax has a new reason he's developed that the Abu Grahib prison torture scandal is "phony".
According to his op-ed in the Washington Times, the scandal is phony because there are no calls for Brigadier General Janice Karpinski to resign. Wheeler asserts that the reason she's not being asked to resign is because she's a woman.
Wheeler further goes on to say, Mr. Rumsfeld stood straight up to the world and accepted responsibility for Abu Ghraib. He took it like a man. War is not woman's work. It is man's work — not because men are more brutal or stronger, but because they can endure the stresses of combat and be accountable for the failures those stresses inevitably create. They don't whine, deviously evade, blame others, make up excuses and whimper, "It's not my fault!" If they do, they are despised and looked upon with contempt by their male comrades.
Besides the obvious sexually stereotypical and misogynitstic silliness of the above Wheeler quote, it's fascinating to me that Wheeler is so blatantly duplicitous. According to Wheeler...the scandal is phony because Karpinski hasn't been asked to resign...but Rumsfeld took responsibility "like a man" ....and nowhere does Wheeler call for his resignation. He says in the piece that Karpinski's superiors knew she wasn't doing her job properly. So where's the call for their resignations from Wheeler?
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According to his op-ed in the Washington Times, the scandal is phony because there are no calls for Brigadier General Janice Karpinski to resign. Wheeler asserts that the reason she's not being asked to resign is because she's a woman.
Wheeler further goes on to say, Mr. Rumsfeld stood straight up to the world and accepted responsibility for Abu Ghraib. He took it like a man. War is not woman's work. It is man's work — not because men are more brutal or stronger, but because they can endure the stresses of combat and be accountable for the failures those stresses inevitably create. They don't whine, deviously evade, blame others, make up excuses and whimper, "It's not my fault!" If they do, they are despised and looked upon with contempt by their male comrades.
Besides the obvious sexually stereotypical and misogynitstic silliness of the above Wheeler quote, it's fascinating to me that Wheeler is so blatantly duplicitous. According to Wheeler...the scandal is phony because Karpinski hasn't been asked to resign...but Rumsfeld took responsibility "like a man" ....and nowhere does Wheeler call for his resignation. He says in the piece that Karpinski's superiors knew she wasn't doing her job properly. So where's the call for their resignations from Wheeler?
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