Monday, March 24, 2008

CNN Sensationalism

I saw CNN this morning, at lunch and then when I got home from work during the evening. I usually don't watch CNN but it's one of the channels I get in HD so it's a better picture to look at than a standard definition picture. Anyway, in each instance, their lead story was always the new death count in Iraq, which now stands at 4000. For one thing, I am offended how often they felt the need to remind us all how many have lost their lives in this war. Secondly, their attempt at persuasion for withdrawal can only work on those people who are non-thinkers. I'll explain more about non-thinkers in a later post. But just to make the quick point, the US forces lost 6603 men on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Are we such a soft country now that losing less than 1000 men per year since the war began should cause us to want to quit? What would the men and women of the 1940's think of us now? I'm ashamed for how squeamish we've become at the loss of a soldier. Men have fought and died for freedom in the country since before it's founding. It's what we do. If we did not do it, it wouldn't get done.

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