From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 12:01:13 MDT
On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 09:11 pm, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> For those who have no military experience, look at it from the grunt
> Israeli soldiers perspective (rather than automatically bleeding your
> heart all over the poor downtrodden Palestinians). For an American,
> think of Vietnam. Imagine you find an American reporter is traveling
> with a Viet Cong regiment you come into combat against. First off, you
> and your buddies are gonna be pissed in an "Ain't Fonda Jane" kinda way,
> and secondly, if the Viet Cong guys decide the American reporter is
> really a spy for the US forces and shoot him, then can still claim the
> reporter was shot by American troops, and no amount of denial by the US
> military will be believed by the left wingers back home in the US.
Mike, the current events are getting captured on film. The reporters
film themselves under attack. I see no reason to think that they are
faking it, or that these are being faked by terrorists to discredit the
military. This is especially true since the military doesn't deny the
events, but agrees they happen and claim that they should happen.
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