Great article. It's a shame that all Americans aren't willing to share the appreciation for the military.
It turns out to have been an excellent idea to have embedded reporters - to put a human face on the folks they typically loathe.
Just one day on the front for these peaceniks/Sadamites would change a lot of perspectives.
"It turns out to have been an excellent idea to have embedded reporters - to put a human face on the folks they typically loathe." Let's remember that EMBEDDING REPORTERS is NOT a new idea. We did it in World War II. If you wanted to cover the war, you enlisted, went thru Basic, and became a member of your unit. This isn't all that much different.
That doesn't mean that it isn't a GREAT idea. In fact, many months ago there were several of us, including myself, who suggested exactly what Dubya and the Pentagon ended up doing.
Michael