A brief note on Vietnam/Afgan thingy purely as a clairification: When I said it was mainly a war between oppossites of ideaology I mean of course between comunist and democratic/capitalist systems....which is the only reason the USA even bothered picking up after the French there, ( to oppose the spread of communisim in east asia) which if we had intervened sooner on the vietmanese peoples behalf against the french occupation their whole country might have came out a lot differently...especially since old Ho Chi Min (like the Afgans) was once upon a time one of our best of buddies.

In 1941, Hồ returned to Vietnam from living in France and the United States (He based his revolution on our own and that of the French btw) to lead the Việt Minh independence movement.

From wiki:
"The "men in black" were a 10,000 member guerilla force that operated with the Viet Minh. He oversaw many successful military actions against the Vichy French and Japanese occupation of Vietnam during World War II, supported closely but clandestinely by the United States ( wow who would have thought...this is just like in afganistan btw) Office of Strategic Services, and also later against the French bid to reoccupy the country (1946–1954). He was also jailed in China for many months by Chiang Kai-shek's local authorities. After his release in 1943, he again returned to Vietnam. He was treated for malaria and dysentery by American OSS doctors. In the highlands in 1944, he lived with Do Thi Lac, a woman of Tay ethnicity.[13] Lac had a son in 1956.

After the August Revolution (1945) organized by the Việt Minh, Hồ became Chairman of the Provisional Government (Premier of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and issued a Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that borrowed much from the French and American declarations.] Though he convinced Emperor Bảo Đại to abdicate, his government was not recognized by any country. He repeatedly petitioned American President Harry Truman for support for Vietnamese independence, citing the Atlantic Charter, but Truman never responded."

Just think of it...if America had acted differently the Vietnam war could have been perhaps avoided.

And I agree "journalisim" should be more than just posting whatever may come one's way.

Yet also...I see very little actual journalism being practiced anywhere and lots and lots of propaganda everywhere instead.

And I allready said all I need to say about the whole green eyed monster picking on America thingy.