The mainstream media has passed the point of no return. For the last week, the stories have focused on what various people have said or on favored narratives of the liberal reporters. These have always been big subjects, but at least the mainstream media used to also cover real news. Well not anymore!
Here's a short excerpt of a story from Reuters. Read it and then think about whether you had previously heard this news:
President Barack Obama has approved giving the U.S. military greater ability to accompany and enable Afghan forces battling a resilient Taliban insurgency, in a move to assist them more proactively on the battlefield, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the decision would also allow greater use of U.S. air power, particularly close air support.
The story goes on to discuss the impending cancelation of further scheduled withdrawals of American forces from Afghanistan and the possibility of increases in the number of troops in that country. It also explains that US forces will now engage in fighting with the Taliban, but it will still be called "support".
This is real news. The situation in Afghanistan is going from bad to worse and Obama is putting our young American men and women back into combat. Sure, he won't call it combat, but those who do the fighting and dying will know that it is combat. So who has covered the story? Not ABC, CBS or NBC. Not CNN or MSNBC. Not the AP. Fox News, on the other hand, reported it.
So why is the real news buried? Think about what this story means. Remember that president Obama came into office telling the American people that Iraq was a bad war but that Afghanistan was a good war. He would end the Iraq involvement but he would push major American forces into Afghanistan to win there once and for all. Once in office, Obama and his foreign policy team headed by Hillary Clinton quickly pulled all American forces from Iraq. That created the vacuum which was filled by ISIS. Obama and his team then resisted actually confronting ISIS and we got the present mess. In Afghanistan, Obama surged the number of American forces by 200%. At the same time, however, he announced that they would all be withdrawn in a few years. That told the Taliban to hunker down and wait for that withdrawal and that is just what they did. Now that most of the US forces have been withdrawn, the Taliban are back in more force than ever before. In short, Obama's (and Hillary's) Iraq policy was a total failure; so was Obama's (and Hillary's) Afghanistan policy. The mainstream media doesn't want to publish that in the middle of an election year, so they bury the story.
Here's a short excerpt of a story from Reuters. Read it and then think about whether you had previously heard this news:
President Barack Obama has approved giving the U.S. military greater ability to accompany and enable Afghan forces battling a resilient Taliban insurgency, in a move to assist them more proactively on the battlefield, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the decision would also allow greater use of U.S. air power, particularly close air support.
The story goes on to discuss the impending cancelation of further scheduled withdrawals of American forces from Afghanistan and the possibility of increases in the number of troops in that country. It also explains that US forces will now engage in fighting with the Taliban, but it will still be called "support".
This is real news. The situation in Afghanistan is going from bad to worse and Obama is putting our young American men and women back into combat. Sure, he won't call it combat, but those who do the fighting and dying will know that it is combat. So who has covered the story? Not ABC, CBS or NBC. Not CNN or MSNBC. Not the AP. Fox News, on the other hand, reported it.
So why is the real news buried? Think about what this story means. Remember that president Obama came into office telling the American people that Iraq was a bad war but that Afghanistan was a good war. He would end the Iraq involvement but he would push major American forces into Afghanistan to win there once and for all. Once in office, Obama and his foreign policy team headed by Hillary Clinton quickly pulled all American forces from Iraq. That created the vacuum which was filled by ISIS. Obama and his team then resisted actually confronting ISIS and we got the present mess. In Afghanistan, Obama surged the number of American forces by 200%. At the same time, however, he announced that they would all be withdrawn in a few years. That told the Taliban to hunker down and wait for that withdrawal and that is just what they did. Now that most of the US forces have been withdrawn, the Taliban are back in more force than ever before. In short, Obama's (and Hillary's) Iraq policy was a total failure; so was Obama's (and Hillary's) Afghanistan policy. The mainstream media doesn't want to publish that in the middle of an election year, so they bury the story.
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