Drako posted this up a few posts. I read comments on that link that downplayed the need for him and other journalists to be there, risking their lives. Armchair chickenshits.
Noticed after the fact, mine is a different link, so I left it.
People seem to treat anyone involved in these politically controversial battles/wars/conflicts as if they are all the bad guys, regardless of the side they are on.
Hindsight is always 20/20, had we left Sadaam alone, who the hell knows what he may have done. Same if we had left Al Quaeda alone. Everyone thinks they know the correct course of action now, seeing as it hasn't gone "perfect," and has been drawn out far longer than expected.
But I respect every individual out there working to protect me and those people who choose to be dipshits at home on their computers, saying whatever ignorant BS they can spatter onto a comptuer screen, regardless if it was ultimately the "right" thing to do or not.
Fewer terrorists are a good thing in my mind, same with Sadaam not being in power. If the terrorists didn't have us to fight on a daily basis, who knows where they'd turn to, or how far out they could reach. If we left them alone and another tragedy happened, whose fault is it for not stopping them? Ours. If we try to stop them, and it doesn't go perfectly and the world doesn't be become a perfect place? Our fault again. I like the "better safe than sorry" approach in this case.
The fact of the matter is, these people are putting their lives on the line for me, get a (relatively) lousy paycheck, and many pay the ultimate price, and there's nothing I can do that will ever measure up to that, other than standing, fighting, and potentially dying beside them as their "brother."
/Rant
Tim Hetherington killed in Libya.
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