Navy Seals

...fighting a politically correct war is suicide

While seemingly pervasive political correctness within our armed forces during peace time is a major problem, political correctness in theaters of military operation during war may be suicide.

Consider the ongoing persecution of 3 elite Special Operations warriors, Navy Seals who delivered to justice a known terrorist suspected of unspeakable crimes. In an incredibly warped alternate universe, these 3 Special Operators find themselves the victims of a convoluted hyper-reaction to a minor incident which allegedly occurred while concluding their mission. While simple laymen like myself are not privy to the protocol or silent code used in the military to determine when to let a situation slide or when to call a man on the floor, it seems unwise to me to blithely punish our valuable warriors at the expense of morale. For we observers on the outside, what appears to have occurred is all we can examine when making even a limited critical analysis. Is it a mistake for the US Navy command to charge on toward prosecution of these brave men, ignoring the option of dismissing charges? Using seemingly inexplicable upside down reasoning they must believe morale will be better served among our military AND civilian population by punishing our heroes!

In the meantime three highly trained, valuable military assets await their fate, in large part it would seem, as victims of a knee jerk reaction based on political correctness...and our enemies laugh.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, the high value target captured by these 3 Seals is the suspected mastermind of the bombing, burning and desecration of the bodies of US contractors working for our military in Fallujah, Iraq. Poor Mr. Abed...almost assuredly guilty of planning the ambush which culminated in the hanging of the charred bodies of our countrymen on that bridge in Fallujah... complained about a bit of rough treatment en route to his cell. Likely he was following the Al Qaeda handbook:

"At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison."

The identity of the Master of Arms, 3rd Class, apparently the main witness for the prosecution of Navy Seal SO2 Matthew McCabe has not been disclosed to the public. McCabe denies all charges and he along with two other Seals who captured Abed, SO1 Julio Huertas and SO2 Jonathan Keefe refused non-judicial reprimand, preferring a trial to clear their names. Charges include dereliction of duty and lying to investigators, with SO2 McCabe being the only Seal charged with assault on Abed.

There’s been an outpouring of support for these brave young men, including the following support group “Support the Navy Seals who Captured Ahmed Hashim Abed” on Facebook, link follows:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=201355981560

While historically our military branches have been charged with the responsibility to fairly judge their own and equitably mete out punishment or commendation, political correctness appears to be tainting the honest dispensation of both. This alarming development should really be no surprise to any, as political correctness continues to adversely affect the daily lives of us all.

The simple truth is that political correctness dishonors all with its false promise of “fairness”. It demands we suspend common sense judgment and disown our natural gift of discernment, that most valuable ability to determine right from wrong, good from evil.

When our military is required to place political correctness above discernment, that my friends, is suicide.