Now, Trang Trong Duyet Says They Are Friends

Former Captor Says He'd Vote for McCain, by MARGIE MASON, on 27 June, 2008 at:
http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/former-captor-says-hed-vote-for-mccain/20080627155209990001

Tran Trong Duyet, the Vietnamese jailer who says he held John McCain captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend says he would vote for him.

At the same time, Tran also denies prisoners of war were tortured.

Duyet, 75, grew testy during the interview when repeatedly questioned about torture and why so many other former POWs (Prisoners Of War) say they too were mistreated. He preferred to talk about McCain as an old buddy.

And although they never saw eye-to-eye on the war that killed some 58,000 Americans and up to 3 million Vietnamese, he said they listened to each others' views.

"He's tough, has extreme political views and is very conservative," Duyet said. "He's very loyal to the U.S. military, to his beliefs and to his country. In all of our debates, he never admitted that the war was a mistake."




Soap Box Ravings finds it very interesting that Duyet refers to his interactions with POW (Prisoner Of War) John McCain, pictured above, as debates in which he, Duyet, listened to POW McCain's views.

Debates that regardless of how physical they became towards POW McCain he maintained his loyalty to the U.S. military, to his beliefs and to his country and during these same debates he never admitted that the war was a mistake.

ESPN's Bonnie Bernstein Says Palestinian Kids Want to Be Suicide Bombers, Apologizes .............WHY

Here is the full text of Bernstein's comments as posted by Michael David Smith on Jun 27, 2008 at:
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/06/27/espns-bonnie-bernstein-says-palestinian-kids-want-to-be-suicide/?icid=200100397x1204885082x1200218409

It's sort of like, you know, and this isn't -- I'm prefacing this by saying this is in no way an analogy to sports because I know we live in a hypersensitive society -- but I remember a while ago I was reading an article in the New York Times about Palestinian suicide bombers and I just remember being struck by the notion that from the point of birth, people in Palestine are taught to think that dying in the name of God is a good thing.

They grow up wanting to be suicide bombers. So bringing it back to sports -- and again, I'm not making the comparison or the analogy -- if a young talented basketball player is being told at an early age that they are destined, it is a good thing to focus on basketball and not worry about what's going on in the classroom, why are any kids going to be worried about what's going on in the classroom?

The article I read stated that she seemed to know that she would offend people, and supposedly it did.

Soap Box Ravings wonders why people would get offended by the truth. Upset, maybe, but offended is not real. Most of the major magazines including Time have repeatedly reported on children who have became Muslim martyrs.

My question would be "where are all of the offended people and the hoopla when Time or any other major news media reports on child suicide bombers"?. How do these children get to be suicide bombers? They are a lot children in the United States who look at their heroes and decide they also want to play.

The article continues to explain some Arab-Americans feel that her analogy was a poor one, but then those on the receiving side of the truth often feel that way. I for one believe the analogy was true and correct.