CBS correspondent Lara Logan
covers the reaction in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February 2011. | CBS News photo.
BY LAURA WASHINGTON.
LauraSWashington@aol.com
...Logan stepped way out of the “objective,”
journalistic role. The audience was riveted as she told of plowing
through reams of documents, and interviewing John Allen, the top U.S.
commander in Afghanistan; Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban
commander trained by al-Qaida. The Taliban and al-Qaida are teaming up
and recruiting new terrorists to do us deadly harm, she reports.
She made a passionate case that our government is
downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as
a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. We have been lulled
into believing that the perils are in the past: “You’re not listening to
what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your
arrogance, you think you write the script.”
Our enemies are writing the story, she suggests, and there’s no happy ending for us...Read article here.
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