Wednesday, May 18, 2005
The Revenge of the MSM.
Kevin Drum warns the Pentagon that it will regret raising questions about Newsweek's article on the Koran incident:
By the time this is all over, I suspect the Pentagon is going to be sorry it ever made a fuss over the newsweek item in the first place. Every reporter in town is now going to start investigating this stuff, and the results are not likely to be pretty. Stay tuned for a fusillade of deeply researched stories about allegations of religious desecration by American troops starting in about
a week.
Is this the professionalism of the MSM? You challenge one of our guys and we'll dig and dig until we find something to get even. Does Kevin suggest that the Pentagon and others should have remained silent in the face of an erroneous Newsweek article?
Undoubtedly, "allegations of religious desecration by American troops" can easily be found. As many have written, Al Qaeda trains its followers to make such claims. A Training Manual found in England included suggestions that captured Al Qaeda agents complain to courts of mistreatment. The real issue is not the existence of such allegations but their validity.
In addition to training its agents to make claims of mistreatment, the Training Manual also teaches Al Qaeda to torture and murder captives in order to obtain information.
# posted by Thomas A. Becket : 10:02 PM
