Tonight ABC Nightline will show some of the most graphic/gruesome film of the Afghanistan War.
Watch it live or set your TIVO. I reasonably believe tonight's broadcast is a repeat of a previous broadcast of November 12, 2007, of which I posted a Previous Diary Here.
Per an e-mail alert I received earlier today, tonight's Nightline broadcast report was announced as follows:
Afghanistan Update
Dramatic footage shot by journalists embedded with the 2nd Platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team shows American troops being set up for fatal ambushes after meeting with village elders -- elders who are often suspected of tipping off Taliban fighters to their whereabouts. While the soldiers struggle to win the "hearts and minds" of these villagers, Taliban and al Qaeda fighters have women and children sit on the roofs of buildings so the soldiers can't return fire. A new ABC News poll released today shows that despite missions like these, Afghan's disapproval of U.S. efforts in their country is on the rise. ABC's Brian Ross reports.
The video was shot by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sebastian Junger and Vanity Fair photographer Tim Hetherington on assignment for Vanity Fair and ABC News. Junger's article is in the January 2008 Vanity Fair, available on newsstands today [December3, 2007].
Although I view MSM reporting with a significant degree of mistrust, I suggest a viewing of this report is essential for one to appreciate what the U.S. is facing in Afghanistan and how the U.S. is prosecuting the fight/battle, choose your own noun.
Watching this report demonstrated for me the fact that an occupation by foreign forces is not an answer to curtailing terrorism and may in fact be creating more terrorism than than which it is seeking to stop.