Very Unusual Mainstream Media Video Clip on US Special Forces in Afghanistan

[Steven Hertzberg]

Very surprising report by CBS Evening News reporter Lara Logan in
Afghanistan (Thursday Sep 12).  She has US Special forces (who are
tracking Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan) on video tape discussing their
concerns with the direction of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
During the interview excerpts these US Special Forces made comments such
as:

"this is turning into another Vietnam"

"these kids are going to start dying for the wrong reasons"

"they're throwing rocks at us now, before they use to cheer and laugh,
and [were] glad to see us, and offer[ed] us tea."

Wow, very surprised to see this kind of report on the CBS Evening News
with Dan Rather.  As expected, the remainder of the broadcast simply
"touted the US Gov't line" for war in Iraq and continued military action
in Afghanistan.

See the real audio clip at:
http://origin.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/video_display_new.ht
ml?clip=/media/2002/09/12/video521870.rm

I find it interesting that the clip has the date of Sep 8th, but that
CBS waited until after Sep 11, 2002 to release.

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Steven Hertzberg 
San Francisco, CA