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They simply announce a death, and the "tragic consequences" while NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER providing the meaning and purpose as to why those people died.

They would answer that the justifications of the war - and its results - are also reported on by ABC, and each person can form their own opinion. Is it your opinion that ABC has failed to adequately cover justifications and results?

This is really a tough one. Context is everything. The nightline broadcast was certainly colored. I don't watch ABC to know if in total they are balanced. I do think the particular nightline broadcast wasn't balanced. The problem is, we are at war. We really are. Most don't see it, or believe it. And I'm not wearing a tin foil hat as I type this. Look at history, look at what the Islamists are saying, and doing. We are at war, a war unlike any we've experienced. Being at war changes things. I think, as an American, your first responsiblity is to your country, and your countrymen. And THAT makes it stickier yet. Of course opposition should have a voice. Herd mentality produces things like what happened in Nazi Germany. Where is the line? How do we define it? That's not easy, I'm not sure. But I think that nightline went too far. To present an arguement against the war that is reasoned, and based on logic, that is what I think is acceptable. To simply appeal to emotion, to say, these people died, without the context, is to appeal to every sane person's revulsion to war. War is evil. War should be something that people hate. But, war is, at times, a necessary evil in a less than sane world.