Winter Soldier Syndrome
The tale of Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the discredited “Baghdad Diarist” for the discredited New Republic magazine, is an old tale:
Self-aggrandizing soldier recounts war atrocities. Media outlets disseminate soldier’s tales uncritically. Military folks smell a rat and poke holes in tales too good (or rather, bad) to be true. Soldier’s ideological sponsors blame the messengers for exposing anti-war fraud.
Beauchamp belongs in the same ward as John F. Kerry, the original infectious agent of the toxic American disease known as Winter Soldier Syndrome. The ward is filling up.
At least I think that’s what he’s saying in this ramble.
Prior Crittenden re Kerry: “Useful Idiot.”
“Useful” is a term many might be hard put to associate with John Kerry. But Gateway and Mudville find an application:
Prior Crittenden re Beauchamp: Jayson Beauchamp, United States (Winter) Army
… stay tuned for Beauchamp’s new career. Jayson Blair wrote a book blaming the NYT of racism and himself of being a crazy drug addict. He’s now all about advocacy for the mentally ill. Beauchamp, with his background as a war zone liar, would make a great Winter Soldier.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:05 am Comments (3) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007
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August 8th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Beauchamp sounds like another self -serving dissembler, definitely in the style of John F’n’ and his Senate testimony when he returned home from Vietnam.
These people seem to be about self-aggrandizement, accompanied by a nearly unimaginable arrogance that they will get away with it.
Reminiscent of another guy named Scott (Ritter), who, I recollect, also made up some rather fantastical stuff in service to the importance of his own ego.
I don’t read TNR, but they should stop trying to dance around trying to rationalize this thing.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
I look for Beauchamp to become exactly that as soon as his tour of duty is up. I don’t think we’ve heard even a smidge of the fables he’s destined to cook up in his lifetime, half of which will be to explain away his confession of lies.
August 8th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
John Kerry has shown more than your run of the mill arrogance. His climbs to the same treasonous heights as Kim Philby, and the rest of those traitors who decided that they were the ones to set their nation straight. This is what Kerry did, and probably has done more quietly in his senate career. I wouldn’t trust that bastard as far as I could throw him. Beauchamp isn’t in his league of arrogance. I read his stuff and thought “pipsqueak”. He’s on a slightly higher level than the ant.