Jun.25.2008
9:32 am
by BostonPatriot
McClatchy Publishing Michael Yon and a Question
Last week, whilst doing some dedicated web browsing, I came across a website that piqued my curiosity. As is so frequently the case, I set aside the primary purpose of my web search, and instead began poking around the site. As it turns out, I had landed upon the McClatchy Washington Bureau Guantanomo Inmate Database. My neck hairs were firmly on end by the time I completed my admittedly cursory survey of the site and returned to my original purpose. To be blunt: I suspect McClatchy to be a left-left oriented publishing outfit (San Francisco based?) and as such this site is immediately suspect. On the other hand, Michael Yon, to the best of my knowledge, has been and is a down the line “independent” journalist who has chronicled the Iraq conflict with relative objectivity and professionalism. I was therefore taken aback when I read this posting from his blog. I don’t know what to make of it but once again the neck hairs are standing at full attention. I am not ready to pull the plug on Mr. Yon but would like to get some feedback about this post/Yon, from you, the reader. If the comments attending the post are indicative, Michael has some ’splainin’ to do. Bottom Line Radio may have to swing into action on this one.Technorati Tags: McClatchy, Michael Yon, Media, blogtalkradio, bottomlineradio
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Michael Yon didn’t write this. This is a column by left-leaning Joseph Galloway, who writes for McClatchy.
Yon likes Galloway but doesn’t endorse everything Galloway says.
Michael Yon has an explanation today on his blog.
I gethis reasoning, but do not believe that Galloway’s is a good one to look at for an opppostion pointof view. And I do not agree with his interpretation of people on the Right and the Left. He thinks that just because we agree with echother and bounce off echother’s ideas and thoughts, we are stuck in a trap. I find the total opposite. We read and talk to echaother because we belive in the same things. It is the same thing asif you are a Cards fan, you talk to Cards fans more than Red Soxs fans. But we do not hate each other, we have different points of view
I still like Michael Yon, he has got ot be one of the best reporters of what is really going on over in Iraq, for good or worse, but I think he totally gets it wrong here.
@Stix1972 (R-IL) (VRWC):
Hi Dave; you must have been reading my mind. I just posted Yon’s rejoinder (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bottomlineradio/blog/2008/06/26/Michael-Yon-Joe-Galloway-A-High-Level-Discussion) and concur with you that he is the best we have out there in terms of fact-driven war reporting. I am not familiar with Galloway but if he is affiliated with McClatchey than I can broom him into the “MoveOn.Org” wing of the Peanut Gallery. As someone who subscribes to unilateralism (America should and must pursue its own geopolitical interests first), I can still accept Yon’s argument against “torture” - that it besmirches America’s global reputation for humanity. He also has the intellectual honesty to acknowledge that “torture” does in fact work (MoveOn.Org and others dogmatically assert the opposite) but that its costs outstrip its benefits. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly: he does not equate America’s behavior in this struggle with that of Al-Quaeda. He earns my respect right then and there. All-in-all, Yon reassured me in this post and I do tend to trust him. My last remaining question: what is “torture”; and is what the U.S. doing “torture”? Does anyone in fact KNOW what exactly the U.S. is doing vis-a-vis detainee interrogation, etc?
They are using sleep deprivation, cold or rooms, loud music, and using female interrogators. At least that is wht I heard they are using in GITMO,and I do not think any of those are considered “torture”. They used waterboarding on 3 high up terrorists, but they also use waterboarding in training for special ops, so I do not consider that “torture either.
I agreew we shouldnot use “torture”, examples of rubber hoses, hanging by arms and dislocating shoulders, shock, pulling fingernails, and various other formsthat our enemies useon our soldiers and innocent victims.