On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:02:23 +0000 "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
writes:
> >From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
> >
> >WASHINGTON - Col. Ted Westhusing, a military ethicist who
> >volunteered to go to Iraq, was upset by what he saw. His apparent
> >suicide raises questions. By T. Christian Miller.
> >
> >http://email.latimes.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/evbm0KfmIN0G2B0G5eJ0EJ
>
> Re: " ... His friends and family struggle with the idea that
> Westhusing
> could have killed himself. He was a loving father and husband and a
> devout
> Catholic. He was an extraordinary intellect and had mastered ancient
> Greek
> and Italian. He had less than a month before his return home. It
> seemed
> impossible that anything could crush the spirit of a man with such a
>
> powerful sense of right and wrong. ..."
>
> I'm sorry, but I see no evidence of Westhusing's "extraordinary
> intellect"
> in this article. There is a degree of naiveté that is
> indistinguishable
> from stupidity, and this sad story presents just such a case.
I don't know. I think the guy was probably book smart but somewhat naive about how people and institutions operate. Of course there is no one here who is like that, right?
>
> Carl
>
>
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