“a poor day here in my view”.........I concur.
It was a poor day and many of the comments were awful. However, many of those posters had a valid point. We can’t prescribe our values onto others. This is the main problem with our foreign policy in the Middle East.
Outside of the usual crude peanut gallery remarks, I won’t disagree with those who said she had no business being there. They don’t respect women like we do in the Middle East, but media executives are so stuck on stupid with political correctness that they endanger their employees instead of denying assignments that may not be politically correct.
I appreciate the honesty of her remarks and it mirrors what I hear from friends who are or have been deployed there recently. We are not winning enough hearts and minds despite the sacrifices we have made there. We will never create Western democracy in these nations because there are not enough educated people and too many Islamists. Despite this fact, we continue to waste lives and money trying. Islam is stronger than any desire for Western culture and values and it would take something drastic to change that - possibly many generations.
I think for many who made snide remarks it was less about Lara and more about the foolishness of the progressive media to send a female into a Muslim mob with no law enforcement presence. This idiocy is also permeating our military.
I can tell you from experience that most young men in the Infantry would die like lemmings trying to save a female soldier. It was that way 20 years ago and it is that way today. It is genetically hard-wired into most non-metrosexual young men and no amount of politically correct policy will change that.