The title just about sums this up. CBS: Why So Little Protest On Iraq?
Is that the reason for the lack of protest? Is it because so few Americans are personally impacted that the outcry isn't louder?
Or is it that Americans have become desensitized to gruesome pictures of the dark side of soldiers in war? The atrocities at Abu Ghraib and Haditha have shocked people for a few days but the images of My Lai are still seared in our brains. Will the words Abu Ghraib and Haditha bring back horror in 30 years?
Obviously CBS doesn't need a trial regarding Haditha, they've already pronounced it an atrocity on a scale of My Lai. And this below is a particularly telling bit.
Analyzing data from 91,000 interviews in fifty nations and the Palestinian Authority from 2002 to 2005, the authors conclude that "America's reputation was badly soiled in Iraq."
Yes, America should wake up every morning and wonder about what the Palestinian Authority thinks of it. Is this a joke? Perhaps Dotty Lynch never stopped to consider that a majority of Americans couldn't care less what Western Europe and a bunch of terrorists think. Nah, that can't be the case.
People at CBS News were touched personally and deeply by the Iraq war on Monday. But must it take a direct a hit for all Americans to get engaged and demand a serious re-examination from those in power whose policies have caused so much bloodshed and damaged America's reputation around the globe?
A direct hit? How quickly Dotty forgets. We lost over 3,000 people to Islamofascism on 9/11, which dear Dotty would prefer to forget, unable to even suggest a real means of combating terrorism - aside from snuggling up to the PLO, perhaps.
Sorry, Dotty - I feel bad for everyone who has died as a result of terrorism and our stand against it - which Iraq is a part of, whether you want to believe it, or not. But with over 5,000 lives lost in this fight so far, forgive me for pointing out, CBS's recent losses represent only two of them.
Get over it. Fortunately the administration and many Americans are willing to complete a fight liberals and the likes of CBS never had the stomach for in the first place. The least you could do is stop trying to tear it down and stay out of the way.
You'll still have your little perch to pontificate from when were done. If anything at all, that's the extent of what you've earned the right to care about. And it isn't all that much ... without the Marines you just denied due process to protect it.
Save the rhetoric for the prisoners of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, for which you seem so quick to cry, though they'd likely slit your throat if given half the chance. Sounds to me like you're just a silly, elitist, maudlin, ungrateful ... journalist.
Atlas Shrugs aka the curvy Superwoman costume has more.
Dude, it's called an opinion it's even in the url (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/30/opinion/lynch/main1664029.shtml). Now you can disagree with it that's fine, but it is wrong to say CBS says this and CBS that. It's not media bias. It's obvious you know how to read , now you just have to learn to comprehend what you read.
Posted by: junius | Thursday, June 01, 2006 at 01:58 PM