{"id":18082,"date":"2010-03-19T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18082"},"modified":"2010-03-19T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:26:35","slug":"a-follow-up-to-yesterdays-discovery-that-there-is-a-difference-between-an-infantry-battalion-and-a-chorus-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18082","title":{"rendered":"A Follow Up to Yesterdays Discovery that there is a Difference between an Infantry Battalion and a Chorus Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dutch are Deeply Hurt <\/a>by the comments from former NATO commander retired General John Sheehan.<\/p>\n

THE HAGUE, Netherlands \u2013 The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as “irresponsible” a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe’s worst massacre since World War II.<\/p>\n

Dutch officials, from the Cabinet to the military, were outraged by retired Gen. John Sheehan’s remarks at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story is okay until the AP decided to spin a little of the history, particularly the events in Bosnia.<\/p>\n

Dutch troops were serving in the undermanned U.N. peacekeeping force in Srebrenica when they were overrun by heavily armed Serb forces, who went on to turn the surrounding countryside into killing fields littered with mass graves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Overrun by heavily armed Serb forces? Hard to say they were overrun when they didn\u2019t fire a shot to protect themselves or the peace that they were sent to protect. Of all of the Dutch soldiers that were handcuffed to telephone poles in broad daylight in view of their comrades not one was wounded which is affair indicator of what a stiff resistance they offered the Serbs.<\/p>\n

But this final quote from the article is the most laughable of all.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands has a long history of accepting homosexuality, and gays have long been welcome in the country’s armed forces \u2014 which also allow labor unions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As was pointed out to me in an email today from a great modern philosopher; the Dutch also have a long history is getting their asses kicked by invading armies and are only behind the French in their speed of surrender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dutch are Deeply Hurt by the comments from former NATO commander retired General John Sheehan. … A Follow Up to Yesterdays Discovery that there is a Difference between an Infantry Battalion and a Chorus Line<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}