HAS ANYBODY EVER HEARD OF REFUGEES RUNNING AWAY FROM AMERICANS? | 2004-11-11
Somebody is going to accuse me of being FOR the Vietnam War for this, but here goes.
The media always shows hordes of refugees in Vietnam and blames them on Americans. But I have never heard of any refugees who moved AWAY from United States troops since the Civil War.
I have never heard of refugees going AWAY from Americans. In Vietnam those hordes of refugees were always moving BEHIND American lines. In Korea the same was true.
The biggest picture of this media blindness was when the Iraq War began. A huge number of reporters sat on the northern border of Iraq while Americans troops moved into the south.
The media had always heard there were huge numbers of refugees when a war started, and that Americans were devils. It had never occurred to them that refugees don't move away from Americans.
It's never occurred to anybody but me.
So all those reporters sat there on the northern border of Iraq, waiting for the refugees, for critical days at the beginning of the war. No refugees came.
The media has forgotten this little incident. I talked about it at the time on WOL, but nobody noticed. It cost the media one hell of a lot of money.
And they didn't learn a damn thing from it.