Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Remember Barbara Ferguson, our pal who writes for Arab News and claimed that all the servicemen she flew out with were against the war and the President? Well, maybe she ended up accomplishing something positive in her embedding with our troops. This is a very positive article, overall. I believe the embedding process is going to pay dividends for a long time to come, especially as some of these former embeds move on to other parts of their organizations.
Ferguson says that Marines are just like Arabs!
ArabNews: An Account of Marines' Incredible Gestures (Via Instapundit)
AT AN AIR BASE IN KUWAIT, 16 April 2003 — People are curious about being embedded in the Marines. This is my effort to set the record straight. Some readers suspect I was subjected to propaganda while living with these men and women. There was no propaganda campaign. If there had been, there would have been no embeds. Journalists wrote their own stories, and made their own interview requests and interviews. The Marines’ “PAOs” (public affairs officers) would set up the meetings, but not oversee them.
What happened to the majority of journalists living the Marine life is that we experienced it from the inside. I can honestly say that seven weeks as an embed has changed me forever. And I have often found many similarities between Marines and Arabs.
Why? Let me give you a few examples, all of which deal with generosity of spirit.[...]
What happened to the majority of journalists living the Marine life is that we experienced it from the inside. I can honestly say that seven weeks as an embed has changed me forever. And I have often found many similarities between Marines and Arabs.
Why? Let me give you a few examples, all of which deal with generosity of spirit.[...]
She can't resist a dig at Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz...but you can't have it all in a day.
