The Command Post - Op-Ed - War: "A Moral Relativist's Wet Dream"

April 05, 2003

War: "A Moral Relativist's Wet Dream"

From "The Television War" by Brendan Bernhard of LA Weekly:

If the first 10 days of the war had been a tennis match, the score would have been 6-0, 6-1, 6-0. And yet, listening to much of the commentary about it on television and elsewhere, you’d have thought that every set had ended in a tiebreaker with the plucky Iraqi underdog pushing the pampered infidel overdog to the point of exhausted, red-faced collapse. And that was on American television. Imagine what it was like on Al-Jazeera.

Read the whole thing.

Posted By Clyde at April 5, 2003 10:52 AM | TrackBack

Comments

'you’d have thought that every set had ended in a tiebreaker'

not at all. btw this is a war not a tenis match.

Posted by: aYk at April 5, 2003 01:34 PM

aYk...do I understand correctly that you're offended by the author's use of an analogy to illustrate a point? Did you think the point was to equate the gravity or war with the gravity of a tennis match? Whatever.

Anyway, Clyde, it's a great article. Thanks for finding and posting it.

Posted by: Jeff at April 6, 2003 01:37 PM