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04/05/10(Mon)19:20 No.544356  >>544354
Worst case
scenario this is a few innocent being accidentally killed in the fog of
war.
But the video doesn't even appear to be worst case scenario.
It appears, in fact, that the video shows armed insurgents engaging or
about to engage US troops. The Reuters camera men had embedded
themselves with the insurgents. This makes them enemy combatants
themselves and should have been shot.
Reuters has a long history
of its local stringers embedding themselves with terrorist forces.
Perhaps they do this because they are sympathetic, perhaps they do this
to get "the story", but it matters little to those engaging insurgents.
When
you embed yourselves with terrorists you know the risk. You are
producing propaganda for them. You have become one of them.
Anything
less than this understanding is purposeful naivite about "objective
journalism". In war there can be no objective journalism. You're either
with us or the enemy. If you want to stay neutral stay out of the war
zone.
As for those who went in to pick up the bodies? Perhaps
they were innocents. I've no idea.
But you drive your van into an
active military engagement? What the hell were you thinking?
You
are stupid. Innocent, but stupid. You're asking to be killed.
And
if you brought children into the midsts of an ongoing military
engagement that makes you more than stupid: it makes you criminally
negligent.
"It's their fault for bringing their kids to a
battle," says one of the Americans on the video. Indeed it is.
People,
this is war. This happens in war. It can't be avoided. If you want to
end civilian casualties then end war. Start by asking armed Islamists to
put down their weapons. But you won't do that because your real
objection isn't war, it's America. Which is why anti-war activists
around the globe never protest al-Qaeda, only America.
They're
not anti-war, they're anti-American.
Again, watch it. It's
tragic, yes. War is tragic. |
