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" I&amp;#039;m damned if I know what to make of Bradley Manning&amp;#039;s choice to live out his life -- including the next decade or so in a federal prison -- as a woman named Chelsea. I certainly respect his right to do so. I would hope that the military would do that, as well. God knows, the military justice system owes him a solid for the inhumane way they treated him during a good part of his incarceration. I am not sanguine about this, however. If Manning&amp;#039;s wishes are treated as a cause for psychological treatment, as the Reuters story implies that they will be, this is not going to end well for anyone. But the ever-so-secure-in-their-manhood flying monkeys of the right get to hoot and holler about it anyway, so there&amp;#039;s that. The more nuanced take on the matter is brought to you by Mark Steyn, on the website of the respectable longtime white-supremacist journal, National Review. Same soldier, different privates.  Mine&amp;#039;s funnier. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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