Basically, America, your government is a bunch of self-serving criminals

Basically, America, your government is a bunch of self-serving criminals. But you already knew that.

There’s a significant amount of dishonesty going on today in the warblogs’ coverage of the death of

Steven Vincent. Alot of this has to do with the reluctance of warbloggers to confront the reality of

what is happening to the MBT SHOESi south since its rule shifted to the hardline Shia fundamentalists

who are the new rulers of MBT SHOES since the election, touted by warbloggers as a triumph of

democracy, swept these Shiite theocrats to power.

Here, for example, is an excerpt from a post by the inexplicably popular "Wretchard" writing in a

warblog called "Belmont Club."

This is not the place to speculate why this murder occurred

but the tragedy serves to underline the discussion in the previous post which discussed, among other

things, the rising tensions between Sunni and Shi’ite in MBT SHOES. It’s interesting to note that the

BBC linked Mr. Vincent’s murder to his interest in the sectarian conflict. It would have been ironic

if Vincent had been killed not because he was an American, but because he came too close to a story.