The first article[4] tells us that approximately 100 members of the US 101st Airborne Division, fluent in Arabic, talked the enemy into surrendering. These soldiers rode in the Apache helicopter gunships that were involved in the longest helicopter-borne assault in history. They told the Iraqi troops that they would be slaughtered if they didn’t give up. “They got the point,” one soldier is quoted as saying. This all sounds very unremarkable, except when you read the editor’s note: “The following dispatch was subject to US military censorship.” Now why would they want to censor such a mundane tactic, except out of embarrassment that the US Army fighting forces had fallen to the level of a cheer-leading squad?... in which case they would have nixed the thing entirely.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:24:30 +0000
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