Foreign Correspondence

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it is crumbling day by day and more and more hollow and inane will these propaganda visits to Iraq become to those that were sitting on the fence nodding in feint agreement with U.S. policy.
I await the day when that terminally ill with optimistism globalization freak Tom Friedman, formerly moderately worthy columnist now turned hack typist blithering we can do, we can democracize the M.E. into a new great world(he was opposed to Iraq invasion but converted immediately after the fact on his "we must ALWAYS look for the silver lining in every dark cloud" entrenched thought process).
The speech i heard from Seymour Hersh( in which i was delighted to pick on his very sharp wit, his sense of humour, and how he reports the darkness without having his life-force turn dark also) talked about the near total collapse of U.S. journalism to get the real story out.
He mentioned someone named Andy Goodman that he says at least has gotten news out about the collapsing moral of U.S. troops and that more and more see themselves in an operation FUBAR, i haven't tracked down yet.
< And as Vietnam demonstrated, once you lose the moral of your troops you have the lost war, it just takes time for the fact to catch up to the Fools on the Hill.
I my next post i will give an example of the brute force of censorship as it has been now been applied to NewsWeek.