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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
We just ran a big circle around the comment that started our whole conversation 
Was the original poster implying that without CNN there, that our troops would resort to such tactics? Of course they wouldn't, so what does the original poster think we should be doing that we currently cannot?
Then I just got carried away proving that rape is a tactic of war, which had nothing to do with anything at all.  |
Brian,
The tactic of blaming the messanger rather than the message has been around for quite a while. Is there any wonder why the flag draped coffins are flown back at night to Dover, where only the military has access?
Who came up with the concept of imbedding the press in the first place?
In my humble view, if the people are uniformed of the reality, the unreality is much easier to sell.
I think the last number for killed reporters is 67. Kill the messangers. The story is still the same.
Jefferson said that the government derived its just consent from "informed" people that it governs.
Denying information makes a mockery of the premise on which this nation was founded.