Why doesn’t ANYONE ask the “Vanity Fair” person why they didn’t STOP the person who was killing our troops?????
On Veteran’s Day...
God help us.
Exactly my thought. *heavy sigh*
***Why doesn’t ANYONE ask the “Vanity Fair” person why they didn’t STOP the person who was killing our troops?????***
Because somebody might have shot back at the blasted cowards. They are nothing but leaches, leaching off the blood of our brave troops.
The consensus was it would be against the rules of journalism to do so.
EXACTLY
I think you know the answer ... Hate blinds.
Liberals appear to be more susceptible to BDS disease than normal human beings.
If you have ever seen the Ethics in America show (PBS) dealing with the media and the military you wouldn’t ask this question. It was brought up in the discussion. One of the anchors said he’s warn the troops and when asked what he’d do next he said he’d do nothing since he’d be dead. Then another of the anchors castigated him up one side and down the other for wanting to warn the Americans. The first anchor thought about it and said something to the effect I wish I could answer that way but I can’t. A crusty Marine officer then made a comment about how the very next day that same reporter who wouldn’t warn the Americans would get in trouble with the enemy and call on the American military to bail him out and the American military would go because it’s their job. The press came off looking like the jerks they are except for the one anchor who would have died to warn the Americans.
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That's not how I read the story at all. I understood the reporters to be embedded with the troops at all times, not forwarned of the villagers' betrayal, and being caught in the same attack themselves.
"We went from being the hunters to the hunted," said photographer Tim Hetherington who was with the troops when they were attacked last month.
WTF - where are you people coming from???
First off - the "Vanity Fair" person was embedded with the troops - that means, duh, he was with them exactly as if he were a member of the 173rd - how could he know anything ahead of time?
What do you people think - that he was out there on the Taliban side, chumming with them? Or that he was just hanging around the mountains by himself and watching what everyone was getting ready to do>
In addition, many of you keep referring to " the person who was killing our troops"
Did you listen to/watch the film with both ears and eyes open? It was a 3 sided ambush of MANY Taliban fighters...
BTW, the "Vanity Fair" photog broke his foot during the battle, but kept on going - later to be heloed out and operated on - and ...well, never mind, wouldn't want to overload anyone with facts