{"id":3821,"date":"2010-09-29T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2010-09-29T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T14:07:30","slug":"the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"The Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regards to <a href=\"http:\/\/afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/27\/background-u-s-soldiers-charged-with-murder\/?hpt=C1\">stories such as these<\/a>, of U.S. military personnel committing crimes and atrocities, take care to note &#8220;The Difference&#8221;. While murderous actions of terrorists are considered the norm, such acts, when committed by U.S. soldiers, justifiably result in outrage here in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>As graphically illustrated, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/little-girl.htm \">Michael Yon&#8217;s photograph<\/a> of a U.S. soldier cradling an Iraqi girl, mortally wounded by the normal actions of terrorist insurgents, there is a difference between us and those who would wage terror on the innocent.<\/p>\n<p>Image \u00a9 2005 Michael Yon<a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/bieger-and-farah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3822\" title=\"bieger-and-farah\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/bieger-and-farah-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bieger-and-farah-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bieger-and-farah-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bieger-and-farah.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regards to stories such as these, of U.S. military personnel committing crimes and atrocities, take care to note &#8220;The Difference&#8221;. While murderous actions of terrorists are considered the norm, such acts, when committed by U.S. soldiers, justifiably result in outrage here in the U.S. As graphically illustrated, by Michael Yon&#8217;s photograph of a U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51,59,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-iraq","category-rusty","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}