Firepower 5 was there, watching an Newsweek’s apology on FoxNews as the murderous riots played out in the world around him.
I watched the video that Fox was running while they concurrently talked about the story. “That’s Ghazni!” said the Operations Officer of the unit that is stationed here. Sure enough, it was Ghazni City, just over the wall from where we were sitting. Rocks were being thrown at policemen and Afghani troops who were answering with automatic weapons fire. Cars were in flames and buildings were being looted.
“We [Newsweek] regret that we got any part of our story wrong…”.“That’s Rocky!” excalimed the Operations Officer. General Rahkim (sp) was the Chief of Police in Gahzni. On the television, his image staggered forward a few paces, began to fall, and was caught by two of his policemen. “They brought him in yesterday,” the Ops officer told me “the bullet went traight through him, back to chest. The medics managed to save him.”
“…and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence…”
Go read the whole thing. His post is titled “Privileges and Responsibilities” and he does address how those apply to the matter.
It’s a bit surreal watching this occur in a country where the freedom of speech is newly re-discovered. Even when it turned violent, it was a more honest and above board exhibition of free speech than what I saw in Newsweek.