I use the image of hamburger. Our press and our weak politicians are turning our troops into hamburger. Casualties by the thousands hundreds of thousands we could take. That is if we were winning decisively. But seeing our troops used for temporary victories is like using them for the meat grinder.
We need leadership that can ignore the media and win the war. The American people will mistrust any politicians who demonstrate a willingness to run the war based on media pressure. A presidential candidate who promised to win the war on terror in one term, for example, could be elected.
Sooner or later (the 30,000 body bag in the war on terror?), there will come a breaking point. Unfortunately, only half of us Americans seem to think that 9/11 was worse than 1,000 Pearl Harbors. But that rage should tell the other half how serious a matter it is to ignore us. It ought to inform the media what their fate will be if they continue to fight against America's soldiers.
The media is our generation's meat grinder.
i agree, we need to kill them so fast that the news media doesn't have time to catch their breath. we should kill them so quickly that we stay at least a week ahead of the news media reports. don't let them keep one report in the news for days. make them file at least a dozen new reports per day to keep halfway current.