Knowledge Is Power

From SondraK, this article should be plastered on the walls and in the cubicles of every news organization that tries to cover the military in sound bites.

Basically, if you haven't been there you'll never know what's happening in the minds or actions of the combatants. You have deliberately not been shown what the enemy is capable of nor the stresses of continuous, hard-wired, sleepless combat on our troops.

Remember that old saw about "walk a mile in his mocassins"? Try doin' 72 hours straight in his boots - then come talk to me.