As a military officer myself, if some journalists had sacrificed American lives to get a story and if I had to decide whether to risk the lives of American troops to save their worthless lives, I would think back to what Admiral Horatio Nelson did at the Battle of Copenhagen.
At that battle, when Nelson's commanding officer ordered him by signal flag to break off his attack of the enemy, Nelson put his telescope to his blind eye and said, "I do not see the signal." My response would be, "I do not see the journalists."