Marine murdered in Iraq
July 3, 2004
I’ll try and minimize commentary on today’s grim news. Just two points. 1) They did in an active-duty Marine. Bad idea. 2) Anyone who calls this an “execution” deserves a a lesson in semantics. “Executions” have a mandate granted by a legitimate governing authority: either The State, or an Office of that State. As far as I’m concerned it’s murder. I’ll call it an execution if we find out that it was ordered by a Grand Ayatollah in Iran. But we know that’s not going to happen now, won’t it? Won’t it?
Link points:
- Chris Short is first on the news.
- Jeff Quinton aggregates.
- Doc Joyner wonders why Hassoun was called an infidel. Coz he’s an Uh-’murrican, that’s why.
- Jeralynn wants none of it.
- Mama Montezz rails on Karpinski.
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Just curious, what would you call the 10-20,000 deaths of Iraqis at the hands of US troops? Semantically speaking.
Semantically speaking, of course, and this is a logical fallacy on my part, I suppose, for who do you have more sympathy?
From my semantic perspective, I’d say there were about 20,001 murders.
OK. If you say so.