McCaffrey-One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex -NYTimes

[yellowwood]

"Through seven years of war an exclusive club has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. Its members, mostly retired generals, have had a foot in both camps as influential network military analysts and defense industry rainmakers. It is a deeply opaque world, a place of privileged access to senior government officials, where war commentary can fit hand in glove with undisclosed commercial interests and network executives are sometimes oblivious to possible conflicts of interest. Few illustrate the submerged complexities of this world better than Barry McCaffrey."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/washington/30general.html?hp

This is disgraceful.

[patrice]

1. President Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" was not just a figure of speech. nt

[spanone]

2. mccaffery and company LIED US INTO WAR. they are CRIMINALS. responsible for every death.

[rocktivity]

3. Aren't YOU a member of "Media Complex," Times?

Why else would you keep your mouths shut about this for seven years? Doesn't that make you accessories to war crimes? And your new slogan is "Where the conversation BEGINS?"

:mad:
rocknation