[Harmless Teddy Bear]

But he had something published in the WaPo so he is a "journalist" and must be given special protection and we should go to war if he should happen to get himself offed by the people he is trying to get killed.

How do I know? The media told me so.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I would have bet the farm (and won) that the guy was an anti-American POS who should have been in prison. The Left, of course, immediately characterized him as a well-respected journalist murdered by America’s ally in the Middle East.