Writing that implies that an organization, or city, or country has an emotion such as impatience is a manipulative kind of writing.
We have long been manipulated by statements such as “Washington feels that..”. And it’s always beneficial to the democrat position, of course. We are generally good in this community at pointing out different kinds of manipulation in media, but some still get right past us.
The US military is an extremely professional organization, almost to a fault, and to imply it is “impatient” is (a) nonsensical, (b) dumb, (c) manipulative.
And yes, there are too many arab names in the byline. A highly disproportionate number, and it is because the Saudis spent much of the 90’s buying as much US media as they could, as they felt it was the best use of their defense budget.
READ the articles. TALK to guys IN the Military. PAY ATTENTION! I have. This is what it is, and I don’t care WHOSE name is in the byline, see. I KNOW real live people who might not stay that way if this continues, and so do most of us who have been following this since day 1. Now, if you can’t add anything constructive, shut up!
It was McChrystal who hid the Pat Tilman truth. It was under McChrystal that Marines died asking for aircover and none came. It is under McChrystal that Women Marines are forced to wear headscarves. Don’t EVEN talk to me about “professional to a fault.”