Navy SEAL Exonerated:

For once, good news:

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 31, 2004 file photo, Iraqis chant anti-Ame...

BAGHDAD (AP) - A U.S. Navy SEAL was cleared Thursday of charges he covered up the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the grisly 2004 killings of four American security contractors.

This so-called "beating" revolved around:

Photographs of Abed's face and body taken in the days immediately after the alleged attack show a visible cut inside his lip but no obvious signs of bruising or injuries anywhere else.

I'd like to make this observation if I might: if the above constitutes a "beating," then I would suggest the Navy SEALS don't know how to do their jobs.

I expect my terrorists to be subject to the legal definition of "mayhem" ("Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out an eye, or slits the nose, ear, or lip, is guilty of mayhem.") before the threshold of a "beating" is even remotely approached.

I dislike putting things in quite this term, but I can think of no other word than "pussified." Our military has been pussified, our schools have been pussified, our thoughts have been pussified, our law enforcement has been pussified, our American culture has been pussified.

With our current mindset we would have lost the Revolutionary War. We would have lost both World Wars. We would be speaking any major language other than English now.

Today, we won one for logic and testosterone.

There's nothing wrong with either item.

BZ