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Chris at Dangerous Logic debates the decorum of going weapons-hot on Michael Berg due to his stunningly warped assignation of blame for his son's grisly decapitation ...

"Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and (Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld," Michael Berg, visibly upset, told ABC television.
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Hey, I said I'd give him a pass. I didn't say I'd give him a free pass. I've got a full-blown rant on five-minute airborne alert if it becomes necessary.

Let him be. Think of it this way - Michael Berg is like tons of hard-left folks that I know that would say such things anyway, about events that are far removed from their personal life. In this case, his son is dead, and he's lashing out through the prism of his morally equivalent funhouse mirror. The only difference between him and other garden-variety leftists is the fact that his son met a horrible end and he has a CNN microphone shoved in his face. Let him have his rage - and let him naturally fade.*

* Unless he becomes an outspoken activist after this story dies down, at which point you may feel free to colorfully point out to him that it was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that hacked his son's head off - not George Bush.

Posted by Bill at May 16, 2004 12:58 AM | TrackBack (0)