 Morley Safer, 60 Minutes journalist, dead at 84 Morley Safer, the legendary, Toronto-born reporter who covered such landmark stories as the construction of the Berlin Wall and the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 84, according to CBS News.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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RIP Morley.
RIP
He had quite the career. Incredible that he retired just last week, as though he knew it was time.
RIP Morley.
He was probably dying from something and decided to just work right up to the end because that's what he loved the most was his work.
Canadian too, eh. Apparently not too popular in the White House and Pentagon after his Vietnam reporting showing Marines torching villages.
If the village provided support to the VC it got burned.
In SWA if the village supported the Taliban then ground forces (and the embedded media) were pulled back to avoid the media painting the village as a bunch of poor victims and then the village would be reduced by artillery or airstrikes.
These days the Obama Administration just uses drones so as to make sure there's nothing for the media to report.
Canadian too, eh. Apparently not too popular in the White House and Pentagon after his Vietnam reporting showing Marines torching villages.
If the village provided support to the VC it got burned.
In SWA if the village supported the Taliban then ground forces (and the embedded media) were pulled back to avoid the media painting the village as a bunch of poor victims and then the village would be reduced by artillery or airstrikes.
That was on odd-numbered days of the week. On even-numbered, days, a parade of soldiers and trailing media entourage would hand out food and candy and medical supplies to show they were "winning the hearts and minds" of locals.
That said, I don't actually think any villages in Afghanistan were levelled simply because the Taliban used them...yes, they bombed Taliban fighters almost anywhere they found the fighters, often with civilian casualties...but I don't think they bombed a village full of civilians just because it was stashing food or supplies for the Taliban.
Everyone knows the Taliban, like the NVA, Viet Cong, and most other guerilla armies, would force villages to store their supplies and there was little the villages could do about it. Americans in Vietnam didn't care about that, but we've evolved into intelligent beings since then. So the same policy wasn't followed in Afghanistan, even though US pilots and officers still have broad leeway to interpret the ROE as it pleases them and still kill way more friendlies and civilians than any other western nation.
That said, I don't actually think any villages in Afghanistan were levelled simply because the Taliban used them...yes, they bombed Taliban fighters almost anywhere they found the fighters, often with civilian casualties...but I don't think they bombed a village full of civilians just because it was stashing food or supplies for the Taliban.
https://www.wired.com/2011/01/25-tons-o ... f-the-map/
And Obama did that one with Secretary Clinton approving it.