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From The Mudville Gazette, via Blackfive (again):

Sucking all the Fun out of War

What’s wrong with this paragraph from a Miami Herald Editorial (I’ll make some parts bold, italicized, and underlined as a subtle hint):

Lt. Gen. James Mattis should have gotten more than a slap on the wrist for bragging how much fun it was to shoot enemies in Iraq. ”Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. . . . It’s fun to shoot some people,” the three-star general said at a San Diego conference. ”You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil,” Gen. Mattis added. “So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”

Iraq, Afghanistan… whatever! Guess those “raghead countries” are all the same to editorial writers in Miami. The writer goes on to point out that the military already has enough of an image problem due to high rates of domestic violence among troops, thus has no business insulting the Taliban for slapping women around.

Hilarious!