The Pentagon must change its policy of not showing " the killing of the enemy" and start releasing videos and footage of us annihilating the enemy.
No need to. Its obvious. These people, in trying to create support, are giving away valuable intelligence about their own methodsa and activites that will help our guys better protect themselves while killing more of them...while the Iraqi people keep voting and setting up their own government.
"The Pentagon must change its policy of not showing " the killing of the enemy" and start releasing videos and footage of us annihilating the enemy."
Presidents start wars and then try to keep the blood and guts of war from the American civilians. To show an attack by American troops on an enemy where we obliterate them would be announced by the MSM as an unecessary slaughter, too much force was used, the enemy wasn't given a chance to surrender, on and on.
If we showed our troops who were killed or wounded in the same newscast as a balance, then the White House is afraid that Moms and wives wouldn't permit their sons and husbands to even join the military.
Then the women would have an honest picture of just what the men endure on a combat mission and that would be just too frightening for them, or so the politicians who have difficulty with the truth themselves seem to think.
No, it's much calmer and more controlled to show a man who is being released from the hospital with just one leg and a smile on his face than the terror in his eyes and what is seen when that leg was first blown off.
Heaven forbid the public would see a medic taking care of a wounded soldier when a wounded native child is laying across the street with similar injuries.
The risks the soldiers take to protect each other and kill the enemy are horrendous, gory and vicious. Every soldier comes home with visions that they wish had remained on the battlefield.
The last thing a man wants his mother or wife to see is for him suffering while he's pinned down by crossfire. A man dying in pain isn't what we want our American women and kids to see on TV unless it comes from Hollywood. In our society, war is just to ugly for the non engaged public to see.
I don't think there will be any media changes in the Pentagon, no Sir, I don't.
Absolutely. As it is, the American people are relying on the MSM for information. And, of course, the MSM is bent on showing our efforts in the worse light. That is leading many to erroneously conclude that the war is a failure. This is just what our enemy wants.
The successful part of the story must be told if we hope to have any sort of support from the American people for this war.