The blame for his life cut short goes to Americas own “Axis of Evil” -Bush-Cheney-Rummy!

We don’t find WMD’s, and the NY Times talks about that, and brings up people like Hans Blix, former weapons inspector, who was there until days before the invasion. And people complain that they’re listening to the wrong people.

Iraqi’s are dying, they don’t have power more than a few hours a day, they don’t have running water, they’re in the middle of a civil war. The NY Times reports that, and people complain that they’re concentrating on the negative, not showing all the good that’s come out of Iraq.

Halliburton posts multi-billion dollar profits from their no-bid contract. Big Oil has record-setting profits and is still receiving tax subsidies from the government. And people complain about how they’re anti-capitalism.

Prisoners get tortured, the NY Times reports it, and people complain that they’re tying the hands of the government with all this “human rights” nonsense.

Soldiers die in Iraq every day. The NY Times writes about it, and people complain that they’re concentrating on the negative side of the war. And how they hate America. And how our soldiers are dying protecting our freedoms.

So the NY Times, tired of all the people screaming at them, figures out that nobody wants to know about one more dead soldier. And they catch hell for that.

What do you people want, anyway? There’s no good side to our staying in Iraq. We aren’t “combatting terrorism” in any meaningful sense; our presence there just inflames the locals and creates more terrorists. If anything, we’re training them, in the sense that we give them targets and allow them to test their tactics against us.

Why did Monsoor die? He was protecting his team. Why was his team in danger? Because they were in Iraq, which is going through a civil war because the Shia and the Sunni can’t agree on which one of them gets to be in power. What benefit comes from our presence in Iraq?

Damn. OK, you’ve got me there. I can’t see an upside to that.

I also agree with Mr. Kraft; Michael Monsoor’s sacrifice — and his love for country and his comrades-in-arms — takes my breath away.

America desperately needs heroes… and America is producing heroes, in amazing numbers. But some Americans prefer to look the other way.

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

Recalling this seems somehow appropriate when thinking of the New York Times.