It's over

If these brave SEALs are convicted for the crime of which they are accused, namely, giving terrorist scumbag Ahmed Hashim Abed a fat lip, then Western Civilization is dead. We might as well all bend over, grab ankles and let the barbarian savages have their way with us.

That these fine men are even being brought up on charges is a travesty. Abed was the mastermind of the murder of four Blackwater sercurity guards in Fallujah in 2004. You might remember that the corpses of those American civilians were dragged through the streets and some were then hanged from a bridge spanning the Euphrates. You might remember how the international community of vultures known as "The Press" flocked to that bridge to photograph those bodies, thus giving Abed and his fellow terrorists a much larger platform by which to broadcast their "message." You might remember how Markos Moulitsas eulogized those murdered Americans with those two little words, "screw 'em."

Much like the New York City trial of Khalid Sheik Muhammed, the treatment of these three brave Navy SEALs in this fashion is the re-gouging and liberal application of salt to a wound just barely beginning to heal. If our brave men and women in the Armed Forces are rewarded with such contempt for their heroism, it will be small wonder if fewer and fewer of them enlist. The decision to prosecute these enlisted men can be traced back to the limp wristed policies of liberal, self-loathing civilians. When simply arresting a villain like Abed has become for our protectors an act of altruism, it makes me wonder how much more abuse our protectors will take before they decide that we can fend for ourselves.