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		<title>The Road to Hell: Part II</title>
		<description>Discuss The Road to Hell: Part II</description>
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			<title>J.H. says:</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/the-road-to-hell-part-ii.htm#comment-4911</link>
			<description><![CDATA[To Rationalist: you seemed to take my comments of S.A.'s post awful personally..... which makes me wonder if your not S.A. trying to stick up for yourself. Is the glass half full or half empty for S.A. who really cares, he injected his own personal "how I was a hero and done wrong kind of story in the comments sect." He became fair game, he are some of his own words: as a recovering conflict reporter myself having 'embedded' with all sorts and sides in wars that best war correspondents are those who don't even call themselves that. That's why, when I see correspondents on CNN or Fox dressed in desert-sand ballistic vests, hyperventilatin g about the crack and whine of bullets, it makes me ill. They're often careerists leaching He would be better keep those type of personal hero/hate issues to himself. I would rather read SGT. ROCK than to have smoke blown up my..........]]></description>
			<dc:creator>J.H.</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Rationalist says:</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/the-road-to-hell-part-ii.htm#comment-4903</link>
			<description><![CDATA[To J.H.: Being dumb isn't patriotic. It's just dumb. I'm surprised you could even make it through S.A.'s post above, judging by your almost illiterate response. Glad you are at least reading Michael Yon, though. He'll expand your mind beyond what seems like your normal 'reading' fare: Sgt. Rock comic books.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rationalist</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>GreenWolf70 says:</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/the-road-to-hell-part-ii.htm#comment-4897</link>
			<description><![CDATA[...with reporters. And I have ever since an AP reporter in Sarajevo invented some facts and put my name to them. Mr. Yon, however is quite different. I hear the soldier in his reports and appreciate his points of view (although, I do wish he would hit Barry McCaffery with some hard ball questions about politics and Barry's war reports) and I get news about the war that we do not see anywhere else. That is not a hit on Mr. Yon but a realization of the sorry state of the US media. The Big Three network news organizations should lose their status as news organizations and be referred to as "Tabloid and Political Entertainment organizations". Maybe to hit home they should not even be allowed to attend news conferences, unless its celebrity news.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>GreenWolf70</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>J.H. says:</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/the-road-to-hell-part-ii.htm#comment-4895</link>
			<description><![CDATA[S.A. save the long comments on your pass personal issues, there is a war going on and for now no one cares if the glass half full or half empty; War or Military correspondent. Say thank you Mr. Yon for the risk you take with your life to give up any true news from the war.....for your risk please call yourself whatever you like. S.A. don't tell me what you did, just tell me what you did lately......I know what Mr. Yon did becuase I can read about it all over the news today! Mr. Yon great job at being a "IN HARMS WAY CORRESPONDENT!! !"]]></description>
			<dc:creator>J.H.</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>S.A. says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Interesting post. But it does raise questions: Is there a difference between a 'war correspondent' and a 'military correspondent'? And why is this even important? I would argue that it is impossible to call oneself a true 'war correspondent' by focusing mostly on the uniformed forces involved--that is, by spending most of your time embedded. That is like calling oneself chef--but only focusing on cooking sauces, or desserts. Warfare today is, sadly, mostly a civilian horror show. The vast majority of war victims--those maimed, blown up, massacred, sniped, targeted for mass death--aren't soldiers; they're civilians. We have lost more than 4,000 brave troops in Iraq. At the same time, there have been TENS OF THOUSANDS of Iraqi civilians violently killed in that war zone by all sorts of belligerent parties. The same hugely lopsided death ratio goes for Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Vietnam, Korea, World War II--pretty much every in modern times. (Basically, ever since uniformed armies stopped popping off at each other on set-piece battlefields, and started targeting civilian population centers.) So any journalist who claims to be a war correspondent by only telling the military angle--good, bad or indifferent--is missing a huge part of any war's real story; missing its vast human sweep; its larger tragedies and triumphs. Indeed, covering, say, the Iraq war from the inside a 3rd Marine Bradley, or on foot patrol with the Army's 4th ID, is covering only a relatively tiny piece of war's truer, more complex (and yes, more violent) mosaic. This is why I would call Mr. Yon primarily a military reporter, not a war reporter. I say this with all due respect, because he's a smart, ballsy guy and my hat's off to him and his good work. But again, especially in today’s murky civilian-target ed wars, like those involving terrorism, he's missing most of the picture. I'm not suggesting this is bad. We all go where our strengths lie. But it's war from a smaller window. Finally, as a recovering conflict reporter myself (having 'embedded' with all sorts and sides in wars over the past 15 years--the KLA in Kosovo; the Ethiopian army in a land war that most people never heard about but which involving a quarter million men; the brutal Mai Mai militias of Congo; the 350,000 war refugees fleeing Mogadishu; the Pesh Merga; the Northern Alliance; the US Army in Iraq, the thousands of raped women wandering like lost souls in the war zones of the Congo) I have often found it strange, in my experience, that best war correspondents are those who don't even call themselves that. Those two glamorous words—‘war’ and ‘correspondent’ --draw attention to the reporter in a slightly unsavory way. There is a good equivalent in the military world: the best fighting men and women are usually those individuals who go about the business of war quietly, professionally, without making a big deal about how dangerous their job is. That's why, when I see correspondents on CNN or Fox dressed in desert-sand ballistic vests, hyperventilatin g about the crack and whine of bullets, it makes me ill. They're often careerists leaching off the bloodshed of others--troops or civilians--to advance themselves. The absolute finest war correspondents, in my humble opinion--the 'few dozen' that Mr. Yon mentions above--are the one's you've never heard about. That’s because they don't go around advertising themselves: these are the heroic, no-showbiz types like Hrvoje Hranjski, shot through the chest in killing fields of Congo (and still working); Chuck Sudetic who toiled bravely for years in civilian slaughterhouse of Sarajevo; and, until his recent hostage drama in Afghanistan, the relatively unknown David Rohde, who has covered the Balkans, Iraq, the Intifada and Afghanistan, and who single-handedly , and at great personal cost, exposed the genocide at Srebrenica--and who I'm pretty sure has never bothered to call himself a 'war correspondent.' My apologies for this extra-long note.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>S.A.</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Kevin ONeill says:</title>
			<link>https://michaelyon-online.com/the-road-to-hell-part-ii.htm#comment-4888</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I enjoy your commentary, even when it's unpleasant news. You're writing the unvarnished truth. I appreciate it. I agree with keeping news of kidnappings quiet, and I agree with the NYT decision (I don't agree with much of what that rag does and says) to remain silent about David Rohde. He was one of their own. But why couldn't they have kept quiet about some of the stuff they printed that jeopardized OUR own, even when asked by officials of the government to withhold publication? How many days did they go on and on about Abu Ghraib? Why did they tell the world how we were tracking Al Qaeda finances? Etc, etc. In the old days they wouldn't have printed that stuff. I don't think most people are upset so much by the fact that they were silent on Mr. Rohde as by the fact they were silent about that but blabbed to the world about stuff that hurt our troops and our country, thereby giving aid to the enemy. IMNHO that's unforgivable. IMNHO if that's not treason, it should be. Keep up the good work. God bless and protect you.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Kevin ONeill</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>K C says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading an amazing book Invisible History Afghanistan's Untold Story. You and Your fellow writers through your words and photo's are giving us another chapter to the sadly invisible History Of a sadly torn country. Thank You. If you have not read this book please do, for us to be able to fix a torn country we must understand where this country has been and why.... with your help I am so understanding. Again - If I ever won the lotto you would have my 10% tithe. Stay Safe and stick to your better judgment.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>K C</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ron Crawford ...Infidel says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm going to quote you back to you, "War correspondence must be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Among the journalists, photographers and writers of the world—of which there must be millions—the true war correspondents are the “special forces.” How many true war correspondents have been produced in this generation? The number must be limited to the dozens." Amen, Michaell and you are among the elite of that number. Your courage and heart shines through. Semper Fi. You demonstate and live a new standard of honor among journalists. Your miloitary training and innate character and morality give depth to your observations... I thank you for your contribution and am so glad that a man of honor is doing the job of reporting on the actions of our men and women of valor. The American soldier is a hero that goes unsung. You are serving your country in a way that few could. Thank you.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ron Crawford ...Infidel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ron Crawford ...Infidel says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I quote your own words back to you, " War correspondence must be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Among the journalists, photographers and writers of the world—of which there must be millions—the true war correspondents are the “special forces.” How many true war correspondents have been produced in this generation? The number must be limited to the dozens.". .... And of that dozen of the "special forces" I pray for your safety. Thank you for your special courage and gift of journalism. This is a first for me....honoring and respecting a journalist, normally among the fifth column of "enemies within". Michael, you are a special treasure. Semper Fi, brother.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ron Crawford ...Infidel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Valerie says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael...what you write about...the horror of it....the human suffering....th ank you for telling us. God bless you for willingly exposing yourself to the dangers so you may inform us...and remember we admire and appreciate you. Bless you always and keep you safe.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jennifer MackInday says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael - thank you for the continued coverage. Keep the dispatches coming and stay safe.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jennifer MackInday</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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