"Don’t believe the elitist spin that young American reservists are uneducated nitwits who can’t be trusted to act properly in wartime," wrote Michelle Malkin May 11. We missed her article back then -- just stumbled onto it in our Site Meter stats, as she had linked to one of our own posts on the subject. Highlights of Michelle's essay:
Can we focus for a moment on the unsung Americans in the military who make this nation proud? They and their peers are the ones most endangered by the reckless soldiers and contractors, negligent commanders, exploitative media and grandstanding politicians who are responsible for creating and deepening the Abu Ghraib morass.
[Take] Specialist Joseph M. Darby of the 372nd MP Company, who "discovered evidence of abuse and turned it over to military law enforcement" . . . Darby, 24, came from a poor family in southwestern Pennsylvania. He worked at Wendy’s as a teenager, as a mechanic after graduating high school, and then joined the 327nd three years ago. According to Darby’s mom, who spoke with ABC News: “He said he could not stand the atrocities he had stumbled upon. He said he kept thinking, 'What if that was my mom, my grandmother, my brother, or wife?'"
[From Maj. Gen. Taguba's report on alleged abuse of prisoners]: "Throughout the investigation, we observed many individual Soldiers and some subordinate units under the 800th MP Brigade that overcame significant obstacles, persevered in extremely poor conditions, and upheld the Army Values."
[via VDARE]
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