Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Obama Stands In a Proud American Tradition

The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

-- Attributed to General Philip Sheridan

If it's dead and it's Vietnamese, it's VC.

-- Saying among American soldiers in Vietnam

Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants...

-- The New York Times, today (link to Greenwald's discussion of the article; part two here.)

And to think some people think Obama's not American enough. (See also.)

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