Come on, Michelle! Don’t turn everything into something political! (UPDATED w/scaled back criticism)

Michelle Malkin cites to the touching reaction of Dong Yun Yoon, the man whose family was killed in the Marine Corps jet crash in San Diego County the other day. The man — again, who has just lost his entire family in the crash — asked people to pray for the pilot, who ejected safely before his jet crashed into the man’s home.

I like Michelle a lot, but her post strikes me as pretty insensitive. She took this man’s situation and uses it as the basis for a post titled “This is what patriotism looks like.”

A naturalized American from Korea loses his entire family in the military jet crash that wrecked his house and killed his infant daughter, toddler daughter, wife, and mother-in-law. But he refuses to blame the pilot or bash the military.

Huh? I can understand that Michelle’s instincts are to see the political in many things. After all, we frequently accuse the left of politicizing the non-political, and she has to be ready to rebut political arguments the left makes about non-political issues.

But being the first to politicize the non-political is not good, and especially so in this heartbreaking case. I have no doubt that there are lefties blaming the deaths of the man’s family members on the military-industrial complex, the warrior culture of the Marine Corps (thank God — literally — for that warrior culture), and perhaps even George W. Bush. Better to simply rebut them than to make our own political point out of this man’s grief and incredible (and apparently faith-driven) selflessness.

While you’re praying for this poor guy who just lost his family, please heed his call to pray for the pilot, too.

UPDATE: I have to scale back my criticism a little (a lot?) here. It looks like there may be some patriotic message in Mr. Yoon’s remarks after all. I missed this quote from him the first time around:

“He is one of our treasures for the country,” Yoon said in accented English punctuated by long pauses while he tried to maintain his composure.

So, it looks like Mr. Yoon brought it up after all. Sorry, Michelle. Though I would prefer we concentrate on the non-political aspect of this, the man’s patriotism no longer seems out of bounds to me.