Shock Troops story "Elementary my dear reporter"

Thomas Lipscomb "veteran investigative journalist and publisher" chastises both the New Republic and the Weekly Standard over shoddy journalism concerning the former's "Shock Troops" article:

Looks like The New Republic has been had again. And this time it is
so obvious it is embarrassing.
Of course with journalists today being the
gentle allergic-to-combat darlings they are on both left and right... they can't
be expected to know something as simple as there ARE no "square back" 9mm
cartridges... or that anyone who tries cute tricks like the "diarist" describes
with a Bradley has a very good chance of flipping his vehicle like a turtle
exposing his lightly armored belly or leaving himself an immobile target in
enemy country...Meanwhile, The Weekly Standard is full of indignant blather from
Editor Bill Kristol, but fails to do a thing to advance the story or blow it by
having it gone over by its own experts.

Lipscomb may be right about Kristol, but consider who's poor judgement has the worse implications. One may embarrass a repeat offender of made up articles, the other might further damage the war against Al Qaeda terrorists who want to kill us. A war whose outcome is already hanging by a thread.

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