They Were Just Doing Their Jobs
August 26, 2015
I heard today on NPR that the two news reporters who were just killed “were just doing their jobs.” How true. And their jobs were honorable and needed. How unlike the lame excuse we are given about U.S. soldiers killing and maiming foreigners that they are just doing their jobs. Big difference in jobs.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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