[M1911A1]

The problem is that during WWII, when the need to retaliate for was felt by our soldiers, it was simply done, and the press didn't proceed to have a field day with the results.

Like it or not, WWII GIs shot a surrendered Germans who they believed deserved it, and that was that. The ones who surrendered and survived were treated well as POWs, and that encouraged those still fighting to surrender.

There was no policy that advocated this sort of rough combat justice, but there was not a press microscope focused on our fighting men, either. We could learn some lessons from the way that was dealt with.

[Publius]

It wasn't that press didn't have a field day during World War II. There was strict military censorship of the press.

Skip to the middle of Profiling, Internment, Dissent and a Declaration of War to see what happens when we function under World War II rules.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"...and that encouraged those still fighting to surrender."

We won't see that in this war. This enemy is crazier than a sh*thouse rat.

I'm ready to release The Hounds of Hell...but I was ready to do that three years ago. *SHRUG*

[an amused spectator]

Like it or not, WWII GIs shot a surrendered Germans who they believed deserved it, and that was that.

Yes, exactly.

Our press are "citizens of the world" and a cutthroat crew of seditious scum.