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Temper, the keeping of.

By The Armorer on July 20, 2006 | | Comments (4)

A comment by John the Baptist on this post:

I used to teach in a Jewish high school, and some of my former students are in the IDF or reserves. Please pray for the peace of Israel and His chosen people - all I keep picturing this week is the sight of those terribly young faces that used to grace my classroom now walking patrol.

On a related note, one of the MSM "news" shows tonight had an interview with an American from Detroit in the IDF (a redleg, John!), and the *&*%*^%^ reporter carefully guided the interview to a question about what he thought about his artillery rounds killing six-year old little girls. He stayed far calmer than I did (oops, down one more TV...), but did make a short speech about how careful they are with target selection and the general nature of war, and then noted, "Where do you think Hezbollah is aiming?"

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By Trias on July 20, 2006 7:29 AM
The reporter won I think. Wanted to show the military as unfeeling and uncaring (a fear many liberals have) and succeeded.
 
By Cricket on July 20, 2006 1:19 PM
I don't think the reporter won. At least one person wasn't taken in. In documenting this war, many good things have been left alone, simply because of the anti war bias. But where the media has jumped the shark is in not reporting on the non combatant selectivity of terrorist groups. Terror groups select non combatants precisely for the shock value their deaths will bring. They are cowards and want to make others die for their religion. It isn't going to work as long as we have free speech and the internet to put another side out there. One aspect of this story is gaining ground here in the south and that is the Al Qeada collaborators and terror cells that are being rounded up and disrupted. Strangely enough, I have been allowed to go about my business and take care of my family because of men and women who protect my freedom 24/7. Something the MSM no doubt, will have trouble telling the American public. I find that a supreme irony, considering the NYTs publishing of classified material that helped the jihadists. On the otter heiny, maybe they will start reporting on it so the terrorists will know who has been caught and then they can start whining about how their 'rights' have been violated. Good grief.
 
By Cassandra on July 20, 2006 8:58 PM
I wonder if anyone asked that reporter about the sniper photo in the NYT last Sunday? About what reporters and photographers "think" when they are snapping photos of insurgents while they are "targeting" their own countrymen? Or isn't that a fair question?
 
By Cassandra on July 20, 2006 8:59 PM
Here's an even better question: what did y'all "think" of Eason Jordan while you all were reporting that Saddam was harmless, while he was torturing your Iraqi stringers, just so you could keep that Baghdad bureau open? Business as usual?