[lbo-talk] Military above criticism

[C. G. Estabrook]

John Pilger finds a "surreal quality" in a campaign about a war where "the
degree of censorship by omission is staggering," of which "the coming
atrocity in the city of Fallujah ... is a case in point."

Gen. Tommy Franks, who recently opined that terrorist attacks could lead
to the discarding of the the Constitution in favor of a military form of
government in the US, offers the following observation in this morning's
Wall Street Journal: "[Kerry's] criticism of the military conduct of our
global war on terrorism disrespects our troops."

That's Kerry's gentle, not to say pusillanimous, criticism of the military
conduct of the war.  Apparently, to respect our troops, we can't criticize
what the military does. In a piece boosting Bush, Franks is trying to make
his own prediction come true.  --CGE