Quote Originally Posted by Alexi
Quote Originally Posted by smartdude
nor does America attack civilians.
Yeah, about that... The media's always highlighting bad US military blunders that hurt foreign civilians, while all kinds of left-activists try showing how America is inadvertantly responsible for non-Americans dying.

Psychotic fundamentalists with guns seem to love this stuff because, to them, it justifies going out and killing the average Western civilian.
Oh, like terrorists need some kind of justification. It's justification enough that the West exists. And in any case, I think a lot of terrorists (and potential terrorists, nothin' quite like having your home blown up and your family killed to turn you over to the dark side) are, oh, I don't know, seeing the stuff in the middle east first hand or at least hearing first hand reports from their operatives? They hardly need to watch CNN to figure out what's going on. No, the the so-called "liberal media" is a convenient whipping boy, but it's not the problem here. The problem is that the US is trying to fight a "war on terror" via conventional means, and the funny thing about that is, smart bombs may be smart, but they can't tell a terrorist apart from any other civilian-lookin' guy running around in the desert. Apparently some our own troops can't tell the difference between a wedding party and a terrorist camp. So until we invent mind-reading homing beacons, fighting terrorism with a conventional army is, in a word, retarded.

You'd think the US government would have learned something about the futility of fighting a "war on [vague concept]" during the War on Drugs, but noooooo.

I think it's good that the media are are publicizing the military's mistakes. If the US wants to be the world's policeman, it should behave like a proper police force and not the Rodney King-era LAPD. Rumsfeld would be overjoyed to sweep anything and everything under the rug, and I for one am happy that the media aren't letting up. Hell, I hope they pound him and other inept and/or corrupt leaders even harder. Feel free to call me a left-activist for thinking that we shouldn't act like idiot barbarians. I'll take it as a compliment.