Our Afghanistan Troops & the News Media

I really wish the mainstream media would get behind and support our troops fighting in Afghanistan.  Instead, at every opportunity they do whatever they can to discredit our soldiers in the most derogatory ways possible.  If  the troops so much as do anything that impairs the holiness of Islam and/or the radical Muslim terrorists it is splashed all over the newspapers and on television in graphic photographic images much like the Los Angeles Times did on this most recent incident. Yet the enemy can do whatever they want with impunity and it is not covered to the same extent.  It is usually buried in the back of the newspapers and only scarcely mentioned on television, if at all.

So let's get off the backs of our guys in Afghanistan.  War is not a Sunday afternoon church picnic.  It is HELL!   You do things (like kill people and break things) you would never think of doing back home in Rosebud, Illinois, or Brooklyn, New York, or Casper, Wyoming, or Brenham, Texas.  It's easy to sit on your pompous rear-end and criticize.  I wonder how the Los Angeles Times editor, Mr. Maharj, would act if he was thrust into combat in a war zone?  Lets dispense with the foolish notion our troops must be the poster child of "goody-two-shoes" for the rest of the world. . . they don't give a damn.  What they do respect is sudden and severe force.