Arkin is an arrogant douchebag.

This scumwad needs a blow to the head with a blunt instrument. Mr. Arken, a self-absorbed namby-pamby pencil-necked-geek moonbat of the lowest order, is nothing but traitorous pond scum (with all due apologies to any pond scum I may have offended with that statement). Regarding this story by Richard Engel:

These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President's handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.

Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order.

Sure it is the junior enlisted men who go to jail, but even at anti-war protests, the focus is firmly on the White House and the policy. We just don't see very man "baby killer" epithets being thrown around these days, no one in uniform is being spit upon. (ed: Oh yeah, dipshit?)

So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?

Can I have this self-absorbed pencil-neck prick piece of excrement alone with me in a room with nothing but a baseball bat? Pretty pleeeeeeeeeze!?