Secret kidnap victim Rohde escapes from Taliban

[MaggieMae]

It's more of the same...

I'll just reiterate what's already been said...

The Media; and I'm speaking of the Anti-American Socialist advocates of the NYT specifically; they're perfectly fine with endagering the lives of US troops, and the means of the American Government to successfully prosecute the war on our enemies; while advocating for the enemies positions, cloaking themselves in the 'right of the American People to know...' but where the lives of their family and friends at at stake... suddenly they're 'on the team'...

Screw them... what will interesting to read is this reporters piece, which will likely portray the Taliban as being misunderstood and the US war on them as some travesty against the downtrodden...

Should be a laugh riot.

ROFLMNAO... The Indoctrination is complete; you've earned your IDIOT Certification!

 

[MaggieMae]

Now, if at least 40 news outlets knew of the abduction of a child and kept it secret, for the safety of the child of course, wouldn't we be screaming that the greater good would be that disclosure would be more valuable in order to locate the child?

Not the same thing. A kidnapped child within the US is a completely different scenario than a kidnapped journalist in the Middle East.

I seriously doubt any Arabs are going to get all excited over an amber alert for a kidnapped Western journalist. We on the other hand, present the "there's no place to run to or hide" message because we as a society DO care about our children being kidnapped.

The case being made wasn't about the Arabs getting all excited, but that if the abduction hadn't been kept a secret, isn't is probable/plausible that special ops would have been directed to engage in a search and rescue mission?

And you know SpecialOps were not engaged...how?! Do you think some NYT team was searching for them all by themselves? The Taliban's structures all look alike--either crude residences or square concrete blockades, and they're all over Afganistan. To find their location would have taken covert intelligence, payoffs, by...CIA Special Ops.

 

[MaggieMae]

Yet the point of all this is the reality that our right to know is utterly dependent on what the News media wants us to know.

The "point" of the whole ordeal should instead be thankful that they are safe, however it unfolded.

After we give thanks can we examine the event from a few different angles or is the whole truth too big of a bite?

Knock yourself out. Oh, sorry, that's already being done.

Since this is the ONLY thread posted (that I've spotted) about the story and it has everything to do with that evil New York Times and not the ordeal those two men went through, I stand by my point.