Globe Ready to Desert U.S. Troops

Globe Ready to Desert U.S. Troops

Acting As It Did in Vietnam Crisis

February 2002

The Boston Globe has demonstrated once again that it is anxious to desert U.S. troops just as it did in the Vietnam War.

Just before Christmas, the main story on its front page was, “US attack may have hit allies.” The subhead said, “65 killed, but strike defended.”

That headline jumped out at the thousands who glanced at the paper as they walked by newsstands or watched others reading the paper. What kind of idiots had we sent to Afghanistan?

The Globe said that the source for their headline was the Afghan Islamic Press.

But Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the U.S. air attack was made on a convoy of a dozen vehicles because they were carrying Taliban or Al Qaeda leaders.

The Globe believed the Afghan Islamic Press rather than Rumsfeld or U.S. troops in Afghanistan. It put the U.S. on the defensive in the first paragraph. It wrote that U.S. officials had “denied reports yesterday that the strike had instead killed dozens of tribal elders allied with the new Afghan government.”

Buried very deep into the long story was a statement from Marine Major Brad Lowell, “This convoy had Taliban leadership. We have accounted for all the munitions fired and are sure it was a military target. And it was struck.”

Observers noted that the Globe appears to want to find any mistake of any magnitude on the part of American soldiers in order to discredit them the same as they did in Vietnam.