Anyone who was around then was amazed at how deftly an unremittingly hostile press managed to shift the blame for the war from Kennedy and Johnson onto Richard Nixon. 0bama will happily withdraw from Afghanistan as soon as there is someone onto whom to shift the blame - the media who will do it have already had a full dress rehearsal in demonizing Bush. Whoever the Republican candidate turns out to be in 2012 had better not be talking about any "secret plans to end the war."
I don’t think the MSM will be pro troops until they start dying off and are replaced with younger and much less rabid anti-Americans. And before you tell me that the next generation is filled with hippies, well, after this economy there won’t be too many socialists left.