If I’m Right, File This Under ‘Deserves Special Place in Hades’
I wanted to comment on this a week ago, but other events intervened.
Eason Jordan, in a NY Observer article by Michael Calderone, said that Michelle Malkin “writes obsessively on Iraq, and how wonderful things are over there.”
Besides being eminently patent nonsense, as any regular reader would agree, the irony of Jordan’s statement is too much to handle. You see, Eason Jordan runs Iraqslogger, an apparently non-obsessed web site that is nevertheless entirely devoted to events in, uh, Iraq.
You’ll note that the site’s banner tells us that it is about “Insights, Scoops & Blunders”:
Apparently there’s no room in Iraqslogger (or desire) for “successes,” making Jordan appear to be one of the legion covering the war who is “obsessed” with our defeat.
Bryan at Hot Air takes it from there, which leads to my “Special Place in Hades” nomination: Eason Jordan invited Michelle Malkin to come to Iraq but was going to arrange for private security instead of embedding her with US troops. The relative danger of being with private security is exponentially greater than that involved with US embedding. IF (emphasis if) Eason Jordan was trying to convince Malkin to accept substandard security arrangements in full knowledge that she (and Bryan, who accompanied her) would be in much greater danger (having spent a great deal of time in Iraq, the chance that he knew of the greater danger is more than small), he is fully deserving of that Special Place in Hades.
Tom;
I agree with your posting, however I want to point out there are some very fine personnel security details in Iraq. Many of these companies can respond faster than the military because they are no constrained by some the rules of engagements. The majority of the folks working in these companies are retired military or those that got earlier to work for better pay. These folks are 100 percent committed to our nation and this effort. There are a few bad apples, but by and large they are first rate and great Americans.
I guess I am slightly biased as number of my good friends from the Army work over there.
Comment by Brian — January 30, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
#1, Fair enough, and good point.
Comment by TBlumer — January 30, 2007 @ 9:43 pm