Will Kandahar become the new Tet?
From Michael Yon's "Facebook" page:
"The Taliban attack on Kandahar Airfield (KAF), Afghanistan was little more than a mosquito bite. Common and irrelevant. Almost. The Taliban won a serious media victory. As with Iraq, and now Thailand, much of the fight unfolded or is unfolding in the media. Thailand is already recovering from its recent media setb...acks.
Watching/reading international coverage of the KAF/Bagram attacks from Thailand, it would appear that major bases in Afghanistan are under high threat. Some people might blame sensationalist media. There was sensationalism. A few who are knowledgeable of the media machine under General Stanley McChrystal and Admiral Gregory Smith realize that the Taliban media victories are as much the fault of General McChrystal and Admiral Smith. When McChrystal/Smith eliminate voices who could put trivial attacks into perspective, what's left include sensationalists and the Taliban media machine.
Many such trivial attacks on KAF were described on this Facebook page as they unfolded. Attack started. Attack ended. No fanfare. No Taliban media victory. Go to lunch. Forgotten.
Yet even as the recent KAF/Bagram attacks were military failures for the Taliban, they were great Taliban media victories.
In Afghanistan, censorship favors the enemy.
General McChrystal/Admiral Smith: No Confidence."
Thanks for the input. Tet? Lord, I hope not. We won. Press, ala uncle walter said we lost. I will never, ever forgive what they did to our Vets from that era.
That is why I am fighting so hard against this PC insanity that threatens to bring us down like a house of cards. We have treason going on. bam does not want victory. Bad enough to be sabotaged by the media. But to be sabotaged by our own _resident is beyond abhorrent.