hawk2
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By ungrateful, I'm not speaking of those who dissent. I'm speaking of those who create dissenters by filling the airwaves with misinformation motivated by malicious ideology. There are two groups who fit this category: those in the Media who believe that is immoral for the US to ever engage in war and those in politics who will do anything and say anything to damage the party in power.
This country has arrived at the point where it is political suicide for any president to take the country into
war....even to protect the citizens of this country. IMO, the 24/7 news cycle is the primary cause of this predicament because it creates an environment where every news organization must constantly compete for the next sensational headline. This competition has compromised the integrity of most jounalists. If one will take the time to read the content of the Jounalist's Code of Ethics, you will conclude that there is not relation to what is covered by this excellent code and the actions of todays journalists. This fact coupled with the non-accountability of todays media has led to unscrupulous reporting of misinformation. This information has led to the withdrawal of support for the Vietnam war which led in turn the complete cut off of funds for the South Vietnamess in 1975, which in turn allowed the North Vietnamese to overrun the South and win the war. This led to complete Chaos and hundreds of thousands of lives lost in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, after the North Vietnamese communists overran the country. The US military was completely demoralized and weakened almost to the point of destruction from within, and the US lost any thred of believeability that we would ever back our allies when put to the test.
Currently, the same result is being gradually forced upon the Bush administration and our awesome military by the same ungrateful element.
What happens when the next president will be too timid to risk the wrath of the ungrateful misguided media and real culprits, the malicious left wing socialists who want to turn this country into a Socialist state where the individual means nothing.
Those culprits deserve 100 years of slavery or execution by the sword......but what about the rest of us.?
Links:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...0,3204741.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
http:http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051...arning-the-lessons-of-vietnam.html?mode=print Lessons learned from Vietnam war by Melvin Laird, Sec Def under Nixon.
http://nujp.org/?page_id=7 The journalist's code of eithics
This country has arrived at the point where it is political suicide for any president to take the country into
war....even to protect the citizens of this country. IMO, the 24/7 news cycle is the primary cause of this predicament because it creates an environment where every news organization must constantly compete for the next sensational headline. This competition has compromised the integrity of most jounalists. If one will take the time to read the content of the Jounalist's Code of Ethics, you will conclude that there is not relation to what is covered by this excellent code and the actions of todays journalists. This fact coupled with the non-accountability of todays media has led to unscrupulous reporting of misinformation. This information has led to the withdrawal of support for the Vietnam war which led in turn the complete cut off of funds for the South Vietnamess in 1975, which in turn allowed the North Vietnamese to overrun the South and win the war. This led to complete Chaos and hundreds of thousands of lives lost in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, after the North Vietnamese communists overran the country. The US military was completely demoralized and weakened almost to the point of destruction from within, and the US lost any thred of believeability that we would ever back our allies when put to the test.
Currently, the same result is being gradually forced upon the Bush administration and our awesome military by the same ungrateful element.
What happens when the next president will be too timid to risk the wrath of the ungrateful misguided media and real culprits, the malicious left wing socialists who want to turn this country into a Socialist state where the individual means nothing.
Those culprits deserve 100 years of slavery or execution by the sword......but what about the rest of us.?
Links:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...0,3204741.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
http:http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051...arning-the-lessons-of-vietnam.html?mode=print Lessons learned from Vietnam war by Melvin Laird, Sec Def under Nixon.
http://nujp.org/?page_id=7 The journalist's code of eithics