Am I alone in thinking Richard Engle's sell by date is in the past?

[Stinky The Clown]

He needs a good, long time out.

[secondwind]

1. I'm cutting him some slack.........he's been out there every day and night, since God knows when....

[Stinky The Clown]

2. I think he's lost objectivity

He's too personally invested. Not a good thing for a reporter.

[Paladin]

4. That's putting it charitably. (nt)

[jrthin]

11. Yep. nt

[targetpractice]

3. There was another post just now about this...

... I agree. He needs to step back a bit.

He's invested and it shows in his reporting.

[hlthe2b]

5. He's very clearly an adrenaline junkie... Yet he's just old enough that extreme sports are not a

viable alternative... Those addicted to continuous danger have one hell of a hard time returning to a more normal life.

[rickford66]

9. Correct. He will just find another war to cover.

[Caliman73]

6. He needs to do some self reflection.

If he wants to keep in line with his 20+ year history of war reporting, maybe he can start looking into Why the US has been at war or military conflict for ALL but 16 years of our history. We have been a country for 243 years and have been involved militarily somewhere in the world (or at home) for 93.4% of our existence.

Maybe he can look into that and see if it is worth it in the lives we have taken the lives we have lost, and the money we have spent.

[Nevilledog]

13. October 15, 2019

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Schooley
@Rschooley
Since the last one.
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NewsBusters
@newsbusters
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel called Biden surrender in Afghanistan "the worst capitulation of western values in our lifetimes." https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2021/08/30/engel-afghanistan-debacle-worst-capitulation-western-values…
4:54 PM · Aug 30, 2021

[vapor2]

7. I was shocked

when he asked a group of Afghans if they felt betrayed working for the US but no sign of being evacuated.

[PortTack]

8. TRMS used to have him on regularly, but hasn't for years. Your assumption is spot on

[Polly Hennessey]

10. I wonder if his kidnapping in Syria affected

him more deeply than he understands. Probably not as it happened in 2012. That seems a long time ago. He has lost his objectivity. Did he think we would never leave. He must have understood that the Taliban would eventually prevail. That they would play the long game. Time has always been on their side.

[2naSalit]

12. Time out starting today wouldn't be too soon.

His addiction has got hold of him.