CNN and their friends the “insiders’
Joshua sends us this video that CNN posted yesterday about the totally cool guy who shot Joshua’s cousin Christian on Oct. 2, 2009;
CNN is still clinging to that crap about cultural differences. Joshua wrote this letter to CNN;
My name is SSG Joshua XXXX I am with the United States Army. My cousin SSG Christian XXX was ambushed and wounded on 2 October 2009. Today you have posted a video with this attacker (who also wounded two and killed another two Americans). I’d like to know why you would give this man a stage to gloat on? Also, if this had been an attack inside of the United States would you have gone about it the same route? Exactly how many times have you allowed my cousin or any of the other three to tell their side of the story? Do you know how many Korans my cousin has burnt? The answer is zero, yet this man uses that excuse that he heard from the Taliban as justification for murder. Do you always go about your work treating insurgents as heroes? Sadly I used to promote your company as one that could be trusted, but in the end I guess you guys are just bummed you couldn’t get some video clips of these soldiers being killed and wounded?
By the way, the murderer is back in Afghanistan now after years of hiding out in Pakistan and Iran because it’s “safe” – fewer Americans in Afghanistan, he says – will CNN help the Afghan government track him down and finally punish him? Is the Afghan government even interested in punishing him?
Category: Terror War
Those are just rhetorical questions, right?
Yea those were, but the questions I sent to the Afghan embassy, to the White House and to both my Senators in California were not rhetorical.
Thank you, Joshua, for stepping up. What a horrid thing for them to do. (Hmmm. Initially the “them” there was aimed at CNN, but there is plenty of shame to be shared among the other idiots.)
Do we still have any MRV satellites in orbit?
I have honestly lived my life to the highest degree of honor, dignity and loyalty and so has my cousin. It feels disrespectful when this is aired three weeks before the anniversary of this tragic event. Im not quite sure why CNN felt the need to drop this now. My cousin didnt need this, he just got medically retired. Dropping this on him is just like stripping all his dignity and honor away.
Joshua, please tell your cousin for me that they cannot take away either his dignity or his honor because we who have it have plenty to share with him. They simply do not understand honorable behavior. And they have no respect for it.
Their loss, not ours.
Meanwhile, tell him that he has plenty of support out here among those whose opinions should matter more to him than that bunch of small, pitiful creatures. That is what I mean by “we’ve got your back.” We will stand strong for him when he cannot. Down the road he may have to do the same for me.
What OWB says.
Your cousin, hell.. ALL our veterans, are not alone. We who went before are there to help them now, if for nothing else to lend an ear or a shoulder to our new brothers and sisters.
Thanks for posting this, and give my regards to your cousin.
I appreciate the support folks. I just linked this article to my cousin so he can see it. He was one tough son of a bitch (aren’t all of us 11bs?) in the Army and I know he’ll do great things now that he’s out.
I used to think that CNN was a reliable news source until a few months ago, when I noticed that BBCAmerica had more up-to-date and more accurate stories, were less biased, and less likely to repeat what appeared to be gossip. Ditto Fox, which I always viewed as too conservative, but Fox has changed lately.
I don’t understand the lack of respect for deployed troops which is now being shown by the so-called major networks. They used to run a list of people who had been killed in attacks, now they ignore those losses as if they don’t matter. Even the reports of people getting a ‘welcome home’ motorcade are fading from the news.
I don’t know what is generating this attitude, but it is despicable.
I don’t know what happened in the media, besides money and numbers. But I can tell you what happened to American society, we grew infatuated with dumbshit and since that’s all were interested in seeing that’s all business want to air. Values and intelligence are no longer something to be strived for, that stuff is boring. What’s awesome now is the next viral video or someone’s face getting smashed in.
Joshua – you make some good points. Our society has become very permissive and people prefer to watch things because of their “shock value”, and not shows that are a bit more redeeming or offer a little more balance. News agencies like CNN post things like this, which will likely be followed by another YouTube video that will incite more violence. Americans are not savages, so we’re not taking to the streets and protesting over this green-on-blue insurgent.
@11. “[B]y another YouTube video that will incite more violence.” Was that an unfortunate choice of words or do you honestly believe that the unseen video incited the attacks on our embassies and a consulate?
@9 Short attention span theater….
Everyone on this forum is currently military or was military and knows someone military, it skews your perspective from the main herd a bit.
Most people I work with don’t know anyone but me who served and I have been out of the service for almost 30 years and I was nothing of note, these folks don’t want their kids serving and don’t really give a sh1t about anything to do with the military. While most Americans say they support and respect the military, and will donate appropriately, they don’t much care to see all that on the news every night.
There was a survey report issued last year that spoke about this. How the public currently is paying less and less attention to military issues. I suspect the changes that you note are part of 12 months post survey indicating that coverage of the military and its’ issues doesn’t give a ratings bump so there is less focus on those stories. The report was interesting for me because so many of my uncles, cousins, neighbors served in Vietnam that I didn’t understand that someone could not know anyone who served in the military. It appears the majority of civilians today don’t know anyone who serves, it creates a disconnect that in my opinion is a serious problem on many levels.
But what the hell do I know? Not all that much…
VOV, if things blow up in the Middle East, the attitude may change.
During World War II, the news was on radio, in the morning and evening newspapers, and in the weekly Radiotone news reports shown just ahead of and between movie runs. Everyone felt involved. But that war lasted on 5 years, didn’t drag on forever and served a purpose, part of which united Americans as a people, which does not happen now.
With Netanyahu pawing the ground in Israel, and the riots that have flared up, and the turmoil in Syria (which has fallen off the news agenda lately), things can still take a very dicey turn. Then the question becomes: will we be in it to win it, or will we just go and fool around?
http://www.kmph-kfre.com/story/19579823/killer-interview-fresno-soldier-sees-afghan-who-shot-him-killed-troops-on-tv#.UFllpIKZKOg.facebook?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7741151
Video of my cousin speaking up for himself.
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CNN… not Al Jazeera? This is the norm for CNN-showing the dead body of a US serviceman dragged through the streets of Mogadishu as his wife watched in horror from Fayetteville N.C., CNN and Time’s 1998 airing of Tailwind stating that US Special Forces were targeting defectors in Cambodia and used nerve gas (a complete lie), Anderson Coopers showing a US soldier get sniped in Iraq (his “snuff film”).
And now this?
They have an agenda and pimp the military for their own ratings… sensationalism.