Sounds Like The Five O'Clock Follies Are Back

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Some history in case you are not familiar with the follies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._news_media_and_the_Vietnam_War



Afghan president to NATO: Release journalists
By Deb Riechmann - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Sep 23, 2010 21:15:09 EDT

In recent weeks, NATO has held briefings on the propaganda war and stepped up its own public relations campaign with news releases highlighting the captures of top Taliban leaders and emphasizing civilian casualties caused by insurgent attacks.