'Jesus Scopes' in Line of Fire

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by SPF2245

Gunner, it isn't the medias fault for pointing it out, it's their negative spin that gets old and creates problems when there wasn't any.

See, I disagree that "there wasn't any problem until the media created it."

The media didn't cast that inscription on the scope. When some Iraqi militant gets ahold of one of them and passes the info back up the chain and to the Arabic press (conservative and radical), it makes us look like hypocritical @$$holes to the entire Muslim world and beyond. Telling the world we're stomping out religious tyranny while bearing symbols of our own is counterproductive. The military not just permitting this but officially sanctioning it is incredibly inappropriate - and better our news making an issue of it and pointing out that it's not representative of the US official position than al-Jazeera making into something else.

You need to be able to distinguish between the media reporting things you find unpleasant and uncomfortable and their "creating problems." The media didn't create Watergate or Iran-Contra, either. Or the Bay of Pigs. Nor did they "create a problem" by following up on the nonexistent WMDs that got us into the larger part of this intractable mess.