If Airman Schrieken had been an abortionist or homosexual,
    this story would be front page news for the New York Times
    and the lead story on CBS News with Katie Couric for at 
    least the next month. But since Schrieken is serving in 
    the military, even his hometown newspaper, the Columbus 
    Dispatch, has ignored this story. 

    Predictably, a law enforcement spokesman says that 
    Marren's suicide notes "were indicative of an individual 
    suffering from mental-health problems", but that raises 
    the question of how anyone could identify anyone suffering
    from mental-health problems amidst those devoted to 
    bizarre conspiracy theories and the virulent anti-
    Americanism of the antiwar movement. If anything, Marren 
    would have fit right in unnoticed.

    It is also worth noting that Marren was merely following 
    the logic of the anti-war movement's standard public 
    rhetoric. Their language is laced with suggestive 
    undertones justifying attacks against our military, 
    calling our armed forces fighting the War on Terror "baby-
    killers", constantly invoking the specter of Abu Ghraib, 
    and citing their grossly inflated statistics of civilians 
    accidentally killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such reckless
    and unbalanced rhetoric (they're not quite as adept at 
    keeping statistics on those murdered by terrorists) fuels 
    the hatred that drives someone like Marren to violence 
    against a member of our own military.