Why did the snipers snipe? The loony left provides an answer.
Tags: snipers, leftwingMichael Neumann is "a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada." At (stifle it!) Alexander Cockburn's (stifle it!) Counterpunch, he offers unto the world "But What About the Snipers?" Let's listen and learn:
…Now suppose you were a pissed-off thug living in filthy water, with the dead floating by, with crying, dying, frightened, hopeless victims all around you. You might fire on a helicopter just to make it clear that being left to rot was not acceptable. Or, if you were calm enough to think things through, you might ask yourself: what leverage do I have? What do those who have power over thousands of helicopters and rescue craft, over hundreds of thousands of rescuers - those smug assholes asleep at the wheel - what do they want that I can deny them?
Just one thing, to me anyway, comes to mind: the snipers could deny Bush and his minions their face-saving operation, their little bit of success, their triage…
