The Manning Verdict: Obama's Defining Injustice

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. "unconvincing as a heroic figure and burdened with complexes". Hmmm, I wonder what he means exactly.

>>>The 25-year-old soldier, a man who is unconvincing as a heroic figure and burdened with complexes, is the most recent casualty in a hysterically prolonged "war on terror.">>

Manning's plenty convincing to me.... and we're *all* burdened by complexes.

Consider, for instance, the complexes of a POTUS who is persuaded that he knows all there is to know about how to fix public schools despite having avoided like the plague any actual connection to them both as a child growing up and as a parent of school-aged children;

AND a civilian professional academic and politician with no personal military experience whatsoever who looks down his nose at a young army private from, frankly, more modest background and means than that known by said president, and finds himself faced with an excruciating moral dilemma: blow the whistle on human rights crimes to which he's been alerted or adopt the Eichman-like posture favored by such as the president: remain silent and therefore complicit.