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August 31, 2006

Lebanon: You are There

Lisa has a video of combat in a Lebanese village, by an Israeli journalist embedded with the Israeli combat unit. That's embedded on foot, moving along with the soldiers, using night vision goggles. Explaining what is going on (I think dubbed in later, because it sounds too calm). Then computer simulations to explain even further exactly what happened. Most of it is translated into English.

I haven't seen anything like this from Iraq or Afghanistan. This is being a war correspondent, as it was done in the old days. Before "journalists" became pussies and started whining about their "access" and their privileges.

BTW anyone who wants to whine about how "racist" Israel is, can kiss my ass.

Robert posts a letter from an Israeli medic, using a more traditional narrative method to tell his combat story, including missed opportunities for lack of supplies - one of the issues being raised about how this war was conducted. Here the cliche "for want of a nail, a war was lost" is too accurate.

Robert also has some descriptions of individual acts of bravery during combat.

UPDATE: I just tried to click through to the video, and I got the message : "access from http://www.keshertalk.com/ has been denied." So my apologies if you had that experience. So just go to http://ontheface.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/8/29/2276029.html . It's really worth watching. I am going to assume that this is a technical difficulty rather than Lisa banning my blog, because there is no reason for her to do that and blog banning in general is . . . . childish. I sent her an email apprising her of the difficulty and we'll see what happens.

UPDATE: Lisa's reply is below. I think I am extra-sensitive to my own faults right now (such as aggressive tactlessness in blog commenting) so I will jump to the conclusion that other people are punishing me for them.

Judith | 08/31/06 at 11:01 AM | Categories: - The War of Dire Straits

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Lisa | September 3, 2006 10:31 AM

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