I’ve been trying to …

I’ve been trying to put into words how I feel about the left’s hue and cry about the Baghdad museum that got ransacked and why the Marines didn’t protect it vs. the rescue of children from Saddam’s jails. Not to worry, though. Hugh Hewitt has done a masterful job in pointing out, not just the absurdity of the complaints, but the lack of discernment of the difference between good and evil.

Forced to choose between leaving the museum unharmed and freeing the children from the now infamous children’s jail, which would you choose? On a broader scale, would you prefer the order of Saddam’s regime, including the horrific practices of its jails, or a week of looting and chaos?

Even if there was no specific point in time when the choice between the museum and the jail was required, there are still priorities that need to be followed, and guarding a museum has got to be much farther down on the list than rescuing children.

And if one child died in there while we were guarding the museum, you gotta know that the left would be saying just the opposite. “Why were we guarding bones and pottery when children were dying?” They’d be right, but only by chance, because they’re reflexively anti-military and the military would’ve been wrong to do that.

A good article, with many ramifications.

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