August 20, 201412 yr Not a topic on here yet about this tragedy. His parents have been the model of what i could only hope to be after that happened. So why does our President trade 5 brutal Taliban leaders and fighters for a AWOL traitor soldier and not for an American Journalist who is IMO worth a thousand times more than the traitor.
August 20, 201412 yr Author Sounds like they have another one too. And they will also kill him or force a trade like the Taliban did. Because now they can.
August 20, 201412 yr You couldn't pay me enough to be a journalist covering any war torn country. Press tags, heck Red Cross tags on someone, for that matter, are no longer respected on the "front lines". These people don't care; they will kill you just for being there; especially if you are an American or an ally of ours.
August 20, 201412 yr You couldn't pay me enough to be a journalist covering any war torn country. Press tags' date=' heck Red Cross tags on someone, for that matter, are no longer respected on the "front lines". These people don't care; they will kill you just for being there; especially if you are an American or an ally of ours.[/quote'] This... I understand journalist have a passion but the money isn't worth being in the ME with limited protection.
August 20, 201412 yr You couldn't pay me enough to be a journalist covering any war torn country. Press tags, heck Red Cross tags on someone, for that matter, are no longer respected on the "front lines". These people don't care; they will kill you just for being there; especially if you are an American or an ally of ours. My grandfather was a medic in WWII. At his graduation from medic training, they gave him his helmet with the Red Cross emblem painted on the front of it, and then followed that immediately by handing out brass scouring pads and instructing everyone to remove the Red Cross from their helmet because they were used as targets by enemy shooters.
August 20, 201412 yr My grandfather was a medic in WWII. At his graduation from medic training, they gave him his helmet with the Red Cross emblem painted on the front of it, and then followed that immediately by handing out brass scouring pads and instructing everyone to remove the Red Cross from their helmet because they were used as targets by enemy shooters. Same with the Medivac choppers in Vietnam.
August 20, 201412 yr I feel physically ill when I see the still image from the video of Foley on his knees right before his beheading. It's sick and disgusting.
August 21, 201412 yr He had been embedded with the Indiana National Guard on one of their deployments in the Middle East. Members have spoken highly of him and his reporting.
August 21, 201412 yr The Blaze has a story that Obama approved a rescue mission to save James Foley, but they could not get a fix on his location. He gets credit for that effort, but what grade will he eventually receive on fighting ISIS? A retired US Army officer on Fox News this morning believes that we need to do more than bomb a few trucks of ISIS, but to go after their depots and headquarters.
August 21, 201412 yr Author Nice job trying. At least he tried or at least the military asked him if they could.
August 21, 201412 yr And then he went back to his golf game. While it has no impact on anything it certainly was a poor decision. Of course Scarborough says it shows to the terrorists that think they can get the US to pay ransom that this president is cold-blooded.
August 22, 201412 yr Today in a Defense Department briefing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stated ISIS is better funded , more dangerous and has better a military tactics and arms than any group we have seen to date. Could Obama's "JV" comment with the potential of a Islamic Caliphate in Syria and Iraq be Obama's biggest foreign policy blunder to date ?
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