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Originally Posted by Prudence
You don't think that the photos described, presented in that context go beyond individuals not acting "saintly"? I don't consider it my place to micromanage the military. However, some actions are sufficiently egregious that I consider it my right and duty to object.
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Agree, especially when it is the military that often times is the face of the United States and its citizens to everyone else.....
Not to shift this in another direction, but we can live in our own little isolated island for only so long. As much as it may suck, we live in a growingly more and more one world economy. What the rest of the world thinks of us as a society, can and will affect how it does business with us. And with the state of the amount of imports in relation to the amount of exports, well, we need all the good publicity we can get. A couple of bad eggs out there doing stupid things, is not good for our PR.
And back on the topic.....
Tis better for our media to report on this and make major news of it, thusly keeping the PR a bit better in control, then for them to have said nothing and have another countries media report on it, and have that country blow it farther out of proportion then our own media may or may not have. I think it is excellent PR for us to hear from our own sources firsthand and allow us as citizens to be outraged by the behaviour of our military peoples, so that the rest of the economic world may see that maybe they will want to do more business with us. Or do we like importing more then we export?
Or I could be entirely thinking way off tonight. But I like the argument, and I am sticking with it.