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Bloggers from the wingnut right are now turning on the two Fox News journalists who were released from captivity several days ago. Why? Because they didn't have the good sense to get themselves killed. Glenn Greenwald has his take on this here.

One paragraph from Greenwald's piece about one of the wingnut bloggers who criticized the two newsmen as being "men without chests," David Warren, is illustrative:

Our foreign policy is driven at least as much by psychological factors as political ones -- at least. So much of the bellicose, tough-guy warmongering to which we are subjected on a daily basis -- all the talk about not wanting to be weak, scared, appeasers who run from fights -- is generated by the same forces that account for David Warren, someone who calls journalists in Gaza "cowards" while he lounges around listening to Ella Fitzgerald and whining about his sore thumb, someone who demands that other men risk their lives and more and more people be incinerated so that he can finally feel strong and courageous and powerful while he sits around complaining about Earl Grey tea ("Earl Grey is an especially contemptible tea, for it was first blended in the kitchens of the notorious Whig statesman").