Posted on 07/03/2017 8:46:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I agree, it is pathetic...but commendable.
It took balls for ignats to say out loud, what most reporters would have ignored.
So, in my book, David Ignatius, a little prick that I hate, gets kudos from me.
Uggghhhh
Warriors recognize other warriors and respect them....
...David Ignatius—ostensibly a competent journalist—apparently felt the need to apologize to his Establishment overlords—in advance—for praising President Trump?
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He actually apologized for _reporting_ that others were praising Trump after attempting to establish how uncomfortable he is with the need for accuracy.
The editor who wrote the headline made it as ambiguous as possible with the word “Fighters”, which could mean anyone on any side. A more honest headline would have been “U.S. military”. And then you read they cheered “Trump’s name”, which evidently isn’t the same thing as the man himself or his policies or a victory.
If he had independently praised Trump, he would now be on the naughty step. If the headline has been simple, direct and honest, that editor would also be in a time-out or fired, as they were at the NYT.
Note that Amazon Prime membership includes a free subscription to the WaPo. I’d like to see an analysis of their subscriptions that factors that in. Maybe it would show Bezos can’t even give his swill away.
Yeah, it is beyond pathetic.
Actually, Truman kicked it off in 1950 with aid to the French.
Ike got it rolling with "advisers" in 1955 and he kinda took the whole training thing over the next year when the French decided to get the he11 outa Dodge.
Kennedy gets the credit for getting actual ground forces involved in 1961, and we were off...
Hussein not wanting to destroy ISIS is like Bishop Wuerl not wanting to destroy Rome.
There were many more companies in training than usual at Fort Ord when Dien Bien Phu fell in 1954. After that, US policy changed. One notable event was that a score of train engineers, who had been drafted to work on the Vietnamese railroad, were demobilized and sent home. Some draftees were discharged, others who were slated for infantry were scattered around as the Cold War was still on.
Amazing. Not the report of battlefield successes, but that they printed (reported ) those successes at all. But read the headline, it implies it is the ISIS Muslims who were cheering.
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