Originally Posted by cato

I would expose the Americans for the butchers they are. Expose the deliberate targeting of innocent civillians, the murder for oil, Haliburton's occupation of Arab lands, and show the world America's genocidal war against Islam. I would naturally seek out the heroic resistance fighters, and document their righteous war of liberation against the Crusader occupiers, and their collaborators.










J/K
Despite the phenominal achievements of GEN. Petraeus' tenure, the real story isn't the U.S. military at all. For a young guy with balls of steel, the beat to walk would be with the Sunni tribal militias operating against AQI as part of the Anbar Awakening. That would be a tough, tough job, with the very real chance of getting (badly, and slowly) whacked by very bad people. Much, much more dangerous than embedding with U.S. forces, but with the payoff of getting a personal and up-close view of the phenomenon that turned the tables on the worst of the worst that Salafist Jihadism has produced.

It is an ugly war, being fought out in those deserts, and those tribesmen deserve more recognition than the occasional blurbs in the daily "Iraq" section of the NYT or WP. If that were to prove impossible, I'd hook up with an Iraqi infantry unit fighting the good fight in the Triangle of Death or somewhere in Diyala. Of course making sure I've got an outstanding international medi-vac insurance policy, 'cuz those brave SOBs are taking casualties.

Cato