As someone who spent a year in Southern Afghanistan, outside the wire of our Forward Operating Base frequently, I am asking the media on the ground in Libya to show the men who are actually fighting the battles. Showing “freedom fighters” walking down the street in t-shirts with only their weapon and the one magazine in the weapon, you are not going to convince the hundreds of thousands of American service men and women that these guys are rebels that are actually fighting battles. It is so obviously staged by the media that it is an insult to anyone who has watched a John Wayne movie that these “rebels” never fired a shot that wasn’t in the air or at a mystical mirage in the distance. Obviously, NATO ground troops including either U.S. Special Forces or CIA operators are fighting the battles.
