There is no "objective reporting". Reporters are only interested in getting the "Big News" and the Pulitzer or something similar.
Nevertheless, I remained convinced that part of it is true. War is never clean but it's not a reason not to grant respect to soldiers fighting. I don't know war, don't want to know it and I'm equally sure that most troops are simply fighting.
As I said to an American friend in 2003 while visiting US: put two stickers on your cars: "Bring Them Home" and "Support Our Troops". At the time, these stickers were opposed, I never understood why as both make sence. It seemed that the British are better at understand it.
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