Newsweek gets b*tchslapped by the U.S. government

[opebo]

People died because of rioting due to this story.  Do you personally believe it is better to publish stories like this, knowing people will die, or not to publish stories like this to prevent such deaths?

Obviously it is better to print stories and let the chips fall where they may.  Free speech often leads to revolt against tyranny - that's one of its main attractions.

[opebo]

Hopefully the government will realize that if they want to "torture" these people or whatever they want to do, they gotta kick the media out of these areas and punish whoever leaks this stuff. If we learned anything from Vietnam, hopefully it's that we can't allow the media to cover the war.

That's right.  The media wanted us to lose Vietnam, and they want us to lose this war too.  They'll do everything in their power to make it happen, so we can't trust them.  The media must be treated as an enemy, and manipulated warily if possible.

Any reasonable person wants the aggressors to lose this war.