Eric's Beijing Diary

I saw a disturbing interview on the Today show with the parents of one of the GIs who was murdered in Iraq. I was particularly troubled by something his father said: "Our son was over there doing a job. The people over there who did this, they are sons, and they were doing their job." Nonsense. Those two soldiers were brutally murdered. There is a huge difference between a killing a uniformed soldier in battle, and murdering POW's who have already been taken captive. This father was obviously in grief, but the moral confusion his comment evinces is just another example of the disturbing lack of moral clarity that has filled every page of this tragic war.