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TheHeretic -> RE: Dover Air Force Base....opinions on coverage (2/16/2009 9:17:51 AM)
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First, to the question of the OP about whether the media should have general access, I say no. Respect for the families certainly isn't the only reason the policy is in place, but it is a damn good one.
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Some respect has to be given to the families but a simple way to keep the cost of our foreign entanglements fresh is to let people see cargo planes unloading flag draped coffins.
Ok. Cost. I'm relating very well to 'cost' this morning, as I sit here writing checks. I see the cost of my electricity, but the benefit of that is all around me. I'll feel the cost of the BestBuy bill when we cook something simple and boring on a night we'd both rather just call for a pizza, but then we'll have a game or two of Nazi Zombies and it won't be an issue. There is the trash bill. The benefit of that is what isn't piling up in my yard. And I'll write the check for what I refer to in my budget as the 'dumbass fine.' It's an old debt, that I never should have gotten myself into, but did. It was a weird time. It's money that should be going into savings, but if I stopped paying them, there would be far more expensive consequences.
That's the problem with showing such powerful images of the "cost of our foreign entanglements." Unless we provide equally vivid images of what we are getting/not getting in return, it becomes nothing but a tool of propaganda.
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