[elpadre]

Obama has announced a complete surrender to AQ (and Iran) in Iraq and the Taliban will now go on a full court press to kill an many US troops as possible to get Obama and the public to throw in the towel in Afghanistan too, IMO.

Our enemy does a great job manipulating public opinion.

[Deo volente]

The purpose of an army is to destroy things and kill the enemy. We shouldn't have our men and women riding around the Afghan countryside waiting to be blown up by suicide bombers hell bent on jihad.

Destroy the enemy or get out. Our soldiers are not security guards.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

This AP story is extremely biased against America. See how many “negative” and “hype” words the AP writers use to describe the war, public opinion, the Taliban “resilient” (one bomber?), etc.

This is the kind of leftist shit that AP has been putting out for years from both Iraq and Afghanistan.

A pure news story should not have hyped adjectives, non-related issued (i.e. public opinion), speculation (resilient), etc.

An old journalism trick is to scratch out all this types of words and then see if you find a “straight news” story or now. If the straight news story was there, then why were all these negative, extraneous words put in there and allowed to remain there by a copy editor?

Does the phrase “anti-American bias” ring any bells?

I saw this leftist shit while in Vietnam (from a handful of reporters for the New York Times, CBS, etc), not by most of the honest ones. It is time for this to stop.