Sunday, February 20, 2011

Digger's death at the hands of "legitimate" insurgents "necessary"

With the death of sapper Jamie Ronald Larcombe 23 Australian soldiers have died in Afghanistan. It is perhaps unseemly to broach this so soon after Larcombe's untimely death in the service of his country but I would like to ask a question of Antony Loewenstein: Antony, do you mourn the deaths of Australians serving in Afghanistan, or do you view soldiers' deaths at the hands of "legitimate" insurgents as a "necessary" prerequisite to the desired defeat of coalition forces?

Perhaps either the host or one of the panelists could ask this question of Loewenstein the next time he's on The Drum pitching the view from the fringe Left.

Update More Loewenstein idiocy:
Here’s an idea; don’t sell weapons to any state that kills its own citizens (including Israel)
This brings to mind two more questions for Loewenstein: have you ever considered remedial English instruction; and, which Israeli citizens has Israel killed?

3 Comments:

Anonymous Dan Lewis said...

Loewenstein, who wrote an (albeit unsuccessful) book on blogging, has never actually engaged in an inter-blog discussion with any of his critics.

He's read this post for sure. But won't reply, as usual. His ego won't let him.

So he'll pretend that he never demonstrated a total ignorance of the difference between Palestinians versus Israeli (or Arab Israeli) citizens.

It would be terrific if he were called on his errors and foul views more regularly in a manner in which he couldn't simply ignore it. Sadly, the luvvies at the ABC would go easy on him.

8:20 PM  
Anonymous Richard Ryan said...

IMAGINE! the might of the Russian army could not conquer Afghanistan, with the loss of over 15,000 of its soldiers, due to the Americans supplying surface to air missiles to the " freedom fighters" later they were called terrorists. Australia take note.

11:52 AM  
Blogger Anita said...

"So he'll pretend that he never demonstrated a total ignorance of the difference between Palestinians versus Israeli (or Arab Israeli) citizens.”
He also either lies or has a total ignorance of Jews vs Israelis when it comes to his repeated claims of Israel’s Jewish only roads.

8:06 PM  

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