Newsweek Debacle

[Redleg]

Both you and Panzer need to pay a little better attention to what people are actually saying Red.

Actually I read and quoted exactly what you stated there Goofball maybe its you who needs to be more clear and concise with what you are saying and what your statement means. Maybe its you who should read again what I stated before attempting to say I did not read something there. I could even get more defensive like you just did with this opening statement - but what the hell you should get the point by now.

I never said, or even implied that the U.S. military is responsible for the sloppy journalism of Newsweek. Nor am I excusing Newsweek. Apparently both of you missed this part of my first post, so here it is again:

What you fail to realize is that I am not discussing your intial paragraph but your last as it relates to the point that Panzer made.

The point of my post is that the U.S. military has a very poor record of late when it comes to the treatment of prisoners, and because of that stories like this one, whether they are true or not end up having the effect of nuclear explosions instead of farts in a duststorm.

Then you should of said that instead of what you did stated if that was your point. The initial paragraph says something totally different when its read.

If careless passerby flicks a cigarette butt on your driveway and it bursts into flame and burns your house down because you spilled an entire can of gasoline when filling your lawnmower and didn't clean up the spill, then yes, the cigarette flicker is clearly at fault and should be held accountable for starting the fire. However, your life would have been a whole lot easier if you had just cleaned up the gas spill rather than letting it sit.

doesn't apply to the point I was making about your initial comments.

If the U.S. military didn't have such a poor track record when it came to the treatment of (prisoners (particularly muslim prisoners), then its metaphorical house wouldn't burn down every time some careless writer flicked the equivilant of a journalistic cigarette butt.

And nor should it be blamed when the journalist does such a thing either. However it seems you are still attempting to point the finger at the United States Military for this journalists bad reporting. Its sloppy reporting on his/their part and they should be held accountable for it.