Anyone who can use "wee boy" and "connoted" in the same sentence has more than proven his manliness.

Funny, you call 'game over,' when there are serious questions about the credibility of the alleged investigation by the Army. Where is the intense parsing, the extreme skepticism, the "truth" bar raised into the stratosphere? Or are YOUR partisan blinders colored a deeper shade of rose than you accuse Foer of?

And, if you're RIGHT, there ought to be plenty of time to dissect your victim, when the issue is settled, rather than this craven rush to judgment that you seem so enamored of.

Worse, there is something of the latent sadist in joining a concerted attempt to deprive a man of his job, his reputation and his career.

For someone who harps so excessively on "manliness" a la "by men who are -- unlike Foer -- fully grown men," it would seem that you know little about the manly virtues of moderation, of temperance, of mercy and of kindness.

Rather, your post is cruel, filled with girlish backbiting and the schoolyard sadism of the bully of questionable masculinity.

Of course, the hallmark of the coward is the craven swagger of the bully. Would you care to rephrase your vitriol? Or will this stand in your historical record?

No I wouldn't care to. For all your carping you are, I regret to say, quite simply wrong.

First, the picture of Foer had me smiling. It screams "Smarty pants", and epitomizes the urban, passive-aggressive, creative class twits of a certain age that I see lounging about all over my SF bay area city during regular work hours...just so many of them...
Second, it goes back to "The facts didn't fit the narrative" thing that we are seeing increasingly.
The dudes just got caught.

This Lovely Cabal

The game of gotcha has been going on in American politics since our Revolutionary War. Washington was betrayed not only by Arnold, but also by other generals and congressman who attempted to make him look bad for their own advancement. This has gone on and on and now here we are. The Socialists rotate all things and ponder how they can make maximum use of each issue. Mrs. Clinton can be quoted on all sides of just about everything.

Bush is the Socialist's enemy, not those who kill innocent civilians for political purposes. And our military is becoming the enemy, just like in Vietnam, merely because they do what their Commander-in-Chief tells them to do.

Socialists believe FDR was a great world leader. Under his administration over 400,000 Americans were killed during World War 2 in about four years of fighting. My question is this: would he not have been a better leader had he lead the free nations in taking pre-emptive action in the 1930's to remove Hitler from power and lost many less American lives?

And should the Republicans have played gotcha with each American, German, and Japanese death? Perhaps the America First crowd could have dragged out a mother of some serviceman killed at Pearl Harbor, taking FDR and his administration to task for allowing her beloved son to be needlessly killed. Truth is FDR sucked as Commander-in-Chief until mid 1942. He put us on a collision course with Japan (some say on purpose-read: Day of Defeat) and lost at Pearl Harbor and the First Battle for the Philippines. He got 3336 Navy and Marine personnel alone killed in those two battles. Way to prepare for the war Mr. President!

Gotcha!

Perhaps when the Socialists retake the White House they will want to battle terrorists and the countries that support them.

Will gotcha be played as well as it is now?

Hart,

For the sake of argument, let's grant that the Army has engaged in a massive conspiracy to slander Private Beauchamp. Beauchamp's diaries would still be BS. It doesn't take an official Army investigation to prove it. It only takes a little common sense and objectivity.

Start with a simple question. Could an incredibly noisy 50,000 pound tracked vehicle with 30 inch tracks sneak up on a sleeping feral dog, swerve, and cut it in half. Of course not--not ever.

Set aside that experienced Bradley drivers and the OEM say that it's impossible.

That has been done and redone most ably by men who know, by men who served, and by men who are -- unlike Foer -- fully grown men.

Yeah, I know. It would have ruined the flow. :-)

Yes, For someone who harps so excessively on "manliness" a la "by men who are -- unlike Foer -- fully grown men," it would seem that you know little about the manly virtues of moderation, of temperance, of mercy and of kindness.

It is neither temperate, nor merciful, nor kind to let children continue in their errors of behavior. The result is always a spoiled group of children -- much as we see today playing in the fields of The New Republic.