If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?
Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.
A Fake War on Terror features TV newspeople out at the airport cheerfully reporting on the busiest travel days of the year.
In a real War on Terror, real newspeople would ask:
What keeps the terrorists of the GWOT from creating a disruption at the back end of the airport security screening line?
In The News
On the web:
Legal Nonsense to Justify Non-Judicial Killings
by Jacob G. Hornberger
November 18, 2025
Related:
TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask
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Flag in the mud is a symbol of newspeople not asking questions over the past 35 years or so.