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A reader wrote to me the other day about the investigation of Marine Cpl. Joshua Belile for a rap song that he performed and that was later put on the Web, and I said I didn’t know enough about the issue to have an opinion. But here is a lot more information on the case at Michelle Malkin’s site. She compares the lyrics of Belile’s rap song with those of a much longer and also very violent and profane rap song recorded by GIs for which they were praised by the liberal media. Belile’s song describes Iraqi civilians using a friendly girl to trap an American soldier, and a gun fight ensues in which he blows them all away. It’s very vivid and intense, with a chorus that’s a kind of satirical “Arab” equivalent of the famous refrain of Vachel Lindsay’s poem “The Congo”(which, if you can believe it, my class read in a public junior high school in the 1960s:

Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,
And all of the other
Gods of the Congo,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.

In a somewhat similar way, Belile’s song invokes the primitive fanaticism and violence of the Islamic world with which our soldiers in Iraq must deal every day. Indeed, have Arabs never engaged in the kind of treacherous behavior Belile describes?

The fuss about Belile seems like an exercise in white guilt-mongering rather than a proper application of the military’s code of conduct. To paraphrase what I once said about Iraq and democratization: I will support a war for national defense; I do not support a war for political correctness. Not one American soldier should be placed in harm’s way in a war waged on behalf of, or under the rules of, political correctness.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 15, 2006 01:49 PM | Send