His father apparently contributed to A.N.S.W.E.R. through his son's business, which is just wierd. (Hat Tip: Justin Katz) There's a contributor list here, with the following entry:
Michael S. Berg, Teacher, Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc., West Chester, PA
So blaming Bush isn't exactly a new wrinkle. And just to reiterate what, to most people, would represent a few salient facts:
1. His son was in country of his own volition, presumably in knowledge that Iraq is a dangerous place.
2. If his son had remained in US custody awhile longer, though I'm sure he'd be walking around with a pair of women's panties over his head according to Sy Hersh, he'd probably still be alive.
3. So, one might argue that since Nick Berg was out of US custody partly because of the stink the older Berg made about his incarceration, it was Papa Berg who really set his son up to be snatched.
4. Although, if the accounts are correct the younger Berg was offered a free ticket stateside upon his release, but turned it down. So strictly speaking he placed himself in harm's way, as he had a perfect right to do. And we've come full circle.
It just might strike a few people, considering these facts, that blaming George Bush for Nick Berg's death is just a bit short of a full load. It's true his son wouldn't have been there were it not for George Bush, but he also wouldn't have been there but for Nick Berg. And if we can't blame Nick Berg for being complicit in his own murder, how the hell can we blame George W. Bush?
This is just immensely sad, because it's clear that about the last thing Nick would have wanted was for his death to serve the purpose of obstructing and undermining Iraqi Freedom. I still think the left is setting itself up for an enormous stumble. Aren't the ravings of the elder Berg a little like a "don't take this route" anti-drug commercial? I mean, for a normal person?
I'm still waiting for someone to suggest that Bush manipulated Zarqawi to commit the murder. And I'm half serious.
Posted by Demosophist at May 13, 2004 11:04 PM | TrackBack" it was Papa Berg who really set his son up to be snatched."
Say what? How does that follow?
I'm getting really tired of the sniping at Berg's father. Anyone who scores political points off him is stooping even lower than they say he is - he at least has an excuse in his grief. Leave the poor guy alone.
Posted by: Yehudit at May 14, 2004 12:44 AMIn fact, yours was the latest of many, and the last straw. So I posted about all of you ghouls.
Posted by: Yehudit at May 14, 2004 12:56 AMJudith:
I began somewhat ignorant. Then I took my first breath. Not that much changed, really.
The issue isn't what Michael Berg does, but how the press is using what he does. And to simply aquiesce to that rather transparent regime, on the basis of maintaning moral purity, seems tantamount to the moral stand taken by anti-war advocates who oppose a war against a totalitarian state. Michael's first impulse was to politicize the death of his son, to use it in service of his own political ends and in opposition to the political commitments of his son. While that might be a moral failing of some sort, it would have occasioned nothing but a compassionate response from me were it not that his agenda converges with the agendas of those wishing to sell the idea that this Operation Freedom is a doomed enterprise. And in case you haven't been watching the polling data they're succeeding. If Michael's first impulse was to rant against God or the modern world, or even me or my family, it wouldn't have raised a peep or jotted a tittle. But this was not about "scoring political points," it was about keeping political points from being scored dishonestly. It was about preventing a grief stricken man from doing real material damage to his neighbors and to the people his son wanted to help and serve. I'm sorry, but the man was genuinely destructive, not innocuous, so spare me the moral indignation.
I daresay he hasn't stopped being destructive, either. So this will almost certainly not be the end of it. But for his sake, and ours, I hope it is.
Posted by: Scott (to Judith unapologetically) at May 14, 2004 09:28 AM" it was Papa Berg who really set his son up to be snatched."Say what? How does that follow?
Well you have a point there. That was unfair. It could be true, but even if it is Michael Berg is still blameless. If there's an issue, it may be that an unresolved and erroneous sense of guilt may have provoked him to lash out at Bush.
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