For some reason while flipping through channels late at night I hovered on a repeat of “Fox News Watch” long enough to hear Cal Thomas say, concerning the latest allegations of US soliders killing civilians:

“While they’re airing these reports of alleged atrocities — and if they happened, that’s what they are, atrocities — what people aren’t hearing enough about are the atrocities of the other side, the murders they’re carrying out”

Two things:

1) actually, we are hearing about that. Constantly. There isn’t much in the way of graphic detail, but considering what we’ve heard up to this point I think anyone with an IQ above their shoe size knows those people are, to use the technical term, f%#$ing insane.

2) assuming for the moment that Cal SERIOUSLY meant that we aren’t hearing enough about it, there’s actually logical reason for emphasis on what our troops are being accused of in relation: when islamic-extremist terrorists kill innocent people it’s EXPECTED! The US military — like any other “official” military — is assumed to operate by certain rules, the general gist of the most basic part being “don’t deliberately kill people that aren’t trying to kill you”. So, for US troops to kill innocent people is a violation, whereas for the nuts running around doing things like executing people for wearing shorts or killing opposing sect members that is par for the course.

It says a lot about the mindset of diehard hawks that their response to wrongdoing on our part is “b-b-but..but look at THEM!!“. There’s a double standard here for a reason: we claim to have rules to war, they don’t.