Why would someone fabricate stories to denigrate our men and women in Iraq except in an attempt to demonize them as some want to do with the entire war? If you subscribe to the New Republic you can read this story as it was published. If you don't, then you have to depend on other's for accounts of what it says. I assume, given the sources, that they are accurate descriptions of the content of the story "Shock Troops".
The problem is that as you read what is contained in the story it soon sounds like tales from 'wannabe veterans or fake Rangers' that slime into the media from time to time. Little of it is credible, the terminology isn't right, the supposed situations seem more like something from a Francis Ford Coppola movie than an American army. Frankly, the story from a supposed soldier looks more like leftist pyrite (fool's gold) than reality. It ain't swamp gas one smells here, it's feces.
The Weekly Standard took a look at this story and finds it disingenuous at best. One who understands soldiers, and the sometimes macabre sense of humor that soldiers in a war zone can exhibit, Blackfive, is already getting lots of feedback on the tale that supposedly came out of FOB Falcon. He knows that even in that dark humor soldiers can exhibit some subjects for 'humor' are inherently off limits, such as those described in the New Republic story.
You cannot read about this New Republic story without your BS detectors are running on overload. It is what you would expect to find in Al Jazeera (who so far has not run it), written by Azzam the American. The irony here is that had there not been blogger interest and and critical look at this story it would have been accepted as fact. (It appeared in the print media, so it must be true!)
Let's not forget Peter Arnett's lurid tales of Operation Tailwind, Dan Rather's fabricated fonts, Winter Soldier's, fake General Lemmon, recently Jesse McBeth, or my personal favorite "Stanley “Stan” Maxcy Jr." All these stories were essentially 'outed' by bloggers, not the 'professionals' of the media.
Expect "Shock Troops" to be another piece of propaganda foisted upon naive and unsuspecting readers. As Blackfive receives his solicited feedback from his many readers in Iraq, I expect the story will be completely discredited.
Doubtlessly, we will hear some of these lurid tales read on the floor of the Senate or the House as they use the Defense appropriation bill as an excuse to whine about the war in Iraq. Like the 'professional' media, our professional politicians often seem seem unable to discriminate truth from bad fiction. But we already knew that, didn't we?
The problem is that as you read what is contained in the story it soon sounds like tales from 'wannabe veterans or fake Rangers' that slime into the media from time to time. Little of it is credible, the terminology isn't right, the supposed situations seem more like something from a Francis Ford Coppola movie than an American army. Frankly, the story from a supposed soldier looks more like leftist pyrite (fool's gold) than reality. It ain't swamp gas one smells here, it's feces.
The Weekly Standard took a look at this story and finds it disingenuous at best. One who understands soldiers, and the sometimes macabre sense of humor that soldiers in a war zone can exhibit, Blackfive, is already getting lots of feedback on the tale that supposedly came out of FOB Falcon. He knows that even in that dark humor soldiers can exhibit some subjects for 'humor' are inherently off limits, such as those described in the New Republic story.
You cannot read about this New Republic story without your BS detectors are running on overload. It is what you would expect to find in Al Jazeera (who so far has not run it), written by Azzam the American. The irony here is that had there not been blogger interest and and critical look at this story it would have been accepted as fact. (It appeared in the print media, so it must be true!)
Let's not forget Peter Arnett's lurid tales of Operation Tailwind, Dan Rather's fabricated fonts, Winter Soldier's, fake General Lemmon, recently Jesse McBeth, or my personal favorite "Stanley “Stan” Maxcy Jr." All these stories were essentially 'outed' by bloggers, not the 'professionals' of the media.
Expect "Shock Troops" to be another piece of propaganda foisted upon naive and unsuspecting readers. As Blackfive receives his solicited feedback from his many readers in Iraq, I expect the story will be completely discredited.
Doubtlessly, we will hear some of these lurid tales read on the floor of the Senate or the House as they use the Defense appropriation bill as an excuse to whine about the war in Iraq. Like the 'professional' media, our professional politicians often seem seem unable to discriminate truth from bad fiction. But we already knew that, didn't we?
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