Posted on 04/17/2010 1:29:07 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
No one reporting on the Global War on Terror has done a more effective or honest job than Michael Yon. For one thing he knows the military, having served in U.S. Army Special Forces. With his camera and his pen, he enabled readers to see aspects of war corporate media could or would not divulge.
On Saturday, April 10, Yon posted a message on his magazine-style website. “[A] message came from military that this embed has ended.” He headed off to pack his bags.
(Excerpt) Read more at theusreport.com ...
**It appears the Obama administration doesn’t want honest coverage of our retreat.**
Can’t say it any better than that...
I’ll miss Mr. Yon’s reporting... better than any talking head.
This not an administration that respects the truth.
Only bought and paid for journalists are allowed in their midst.
Damn them.
The answer is simple...Yon seriously embarassed a Canadian General a month ago that allowed a strategic bridge to be blown by the Taliban...I think in the interests of keeping the Canadians happy the Yon embed was ended
The answer is simple...Yon seriously embarassed a Canadian General a month ago that allowed a strategic bridge to be blown by the Taliban...I think in the interests of keeping the Canadians happy the Yon embed was ended
Quote from Yon: “It is a bad sign indicating that they think they are losing the war and don’t want anyone there to see it.”
More likely, the administration does not want to be exposed for its mistreatment of our own troops in the field. They talk to Yon. They don’t have much good to say since McChrystal took over. Their conditions, which were already bad, have gotten much worse.
The story will be told when they get home. They can’t keep it quiet forever. This is starting to remind me much too much of things I’ve heard from Nam Vets.
I guess you could use the word retreat, but most would say shift.
As is shifting away from a counterinsurgency mission to a hybrid of counterinsurgency and counter-terror
NBC was lamenting this same thing this past week in that they had had an imbed in the Korengal valley for a long time and the Korengal valley COIN mission was one of the first dating back to 2005-06. And NBC, this past week, thoroughly covered the military's destruction of those many compounds so that they would be of no use to the insurgents.
Many of the imbeds were located in the remote COIN ops, and as in the Korengal, there will still be one compound remaining dedicated to counter terror, but all of the COIN is being shut down.
In McChrystal's words, he will continue COIN in the "population centers, main roads, and broad valleys". So, in these locations, the imbeds will remain.
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