Originally posted by Saurdaukar
I do indeed.
But its hardly necessary to reopen the wound multiple times following the healing of said wound.
There is plenty of 'breaking news' out there. This **** is already a week old and its been on the TV without pause. Why not focus on the investigation that began months ago? Why not have a talking head come in and 'analyze' the steps taken to learn about and contain the problem?
What do you think we have to gain by causing more damage to the war effort?
This is wrong for so many reasons, I don't know for sure where to start, but I'll try.
But its hardly necessary to reopen the wound multiple times following the healing of said wound.
The wound has not healed, it's bleeding freely. It's a trust wound. Our allies have doubts about our moral credibility, and our enemies feel that their hatred of us is vindicated. If we are not completely, and I mean COMPLETELY open and honest with exposing our dirty laundry, saying 'mea culpa', punishing the offenders with no special treatment, and fixing the problem for the future, then that TRUST can never be rebuilt.
There is plenty of 'breaking news' out there. This **** is already a week old and its been on the TV without pause. Why not focus on the investigation that began months ago? Why not have a talking head come in and 'analyze' the steps taken to learn about and contain the problem?
It's breaking news because hearing about these new pictures IS news. Without context, what's to prevent everyone in the world from thinking that the new pictures prove a
continuing pattern instead of an
isolated incident? You and I know that this was aberrant, but there are plenty of people out there who WANT to believe that the US is in the business of torturing innocents and killing puppies. The new pictures MUST be analyzed to death so we can make it clear that the guilty will be punished.
What do you think we have to gain by causing more damage to the war effort?
1. The United States of America is not the military. The USA
has a military, but it is a tool, not the entity of our country itself. As a result of this, the media, government, corporations, and everyone on the soil of our great land is best served by scrutiny where it is needed.
2. Liberty is like a flower, and the truth is light. As jerky and annoying as some reporters are, the fact remains that a vigilant media points light at places that would prefer to remain dark, and those dark areas are where individual rights wither.
Without their scrutiny, the country we live in would have many dark places.
I make no excuses for their personal character. I know that every human in this country, media included, has his or her own agenda. If I were to believe that every reporter is guided by a sense of patriotism then I would be a fool, but that's not important. To push the light metaphor one step further, a reporter is like a guy wearing a miner hat. No matter where he looks, his spotlight follows, and as my mother used to say, 'even a blind chicken finds a piece of corn occasionally'. Of course, she said it in german, so it sounded like swearing, but for me, that just reinforces my belief in the ideals that make this country great. People like my mom strike out from their homes and birthplaces and make the journey to the United States of America because there are so many things that make this land better then anywhere else.
If you suppress the media, then many of those things will wilt in the darkness and eventually die.
