Stumble it!A good soldier, methinks.
posted in Politics by themaiden |In e-mails to his family, Westhusing seemed especially upset by one conclusion he had reached: that traditional military values such as duty, honor and country had been replaced by profit motives in Iraq, where the U.S. had come to rely heavily on contractors for jobs once done by the military.
“He was sick of money-grubbing contractors,” the official recounted. Westhusing said that “he had not come over to Iraq for this.”
“I cannot support a msn [mission] that leads to corruption, human rights abuse and liars. I am sullied,” it says. “I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored.
And for this he is faulted.
Westhusing struggled with the idea that monetary values could outweigh moral ones in war. This, she said, was a flaw.
“Despite his intelligence, his ability to grasp the idea that profit is an important goal for people working in the private sector was surprisingly limited,” wrote Lt. Col. Lisa Breitenbach. “He could not shift his mind-set from the military notion of completing a mission irrespective of cost, nor could he change his belief that doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do should be the sole motivator for businesses.”
Yes, he cared about doing the right thing. That is one damnable flaw.
He couldn’t see the profit motive in killing people and destroying the lives and property of those not killed. What a bastard this man was!
Is the corruption really as deep as this? Does it really reach this deep into the hearts and souls, into the minds, of America? Of the world? If so, then we are doomed far more thoroughly than I previously believed. Call it an epiphany.
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