The Corner  The one and only.  Double Standards That Kill   Over
at the New York Post, Arthur Herman has penned an outstanding
piece that outlines the double standards inherent in every
American conflict since Vietnam. Here’s the core point:  After
Vietnam, our politicians demanded that our armed forces be
trained to wield the most lethal weapons ever made, with the
moral and cultural sensitivity of Peace Corps volunteers. To
anyone who knows history, our troops have met this challenge
with overwhelming and unprecedented success — as our real record
in Iraq and Afghanistan attests.  But it has left our military
trapped in a strange double bind, one reflected in the furor
over this video. If Somalis drag our dead through the streets or
Iraqi insurgents dismember captured Marines or the Taliban gang-
rape and mutilate women to enforce their vicious version
of sharia law, the media treat it as irrelevant to understanding
who we are fighting, or why. They even suppress those stories
and images — such as the behead