Why is it we don't know?

I've written about it before, but I am more than annoyed at the American media and its dismal coverage of the War on Terror. Why is it that the only place you can hear any specifics about battles in Afghanistan and Iraq is years later on the History Channel?

I would tend to think that this is for a number of reasons. This first is the liberal bias in the media. Why would they report on heroic soldiers excelling under horrible conditions when the crux of the evening news spiel is that our soldiers are demoralized and angry?

The second I think is a kind of Vietnamization. Not, not that kind - a new kind. I think that the baby boomers (people my parent's age) are forever jaded by Vietnam. In these people's worlds the military is all bad and always bad. All of the work they do is evil, and every battle won is just a set up for another Vietnam-like battle lost. We live in a society where a whole generation despises the military and can't get past the war-protesting hippy days of their youth. It's an interesting phenomenon, but the fact that people think that the US military is terrorist, that they're murdering children in Iraq, and that a draft is always imminent is clear evidence of this anti-military paranoia.

Watch Shootout when it's on the History Channel. It will be your only chance to see the heroics of our soldiers in combat.