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Preview: Quiet Professionals

January 28, 2010 11:15 AM

60 Minutes spent over two months with a Green Beret unit as they trained a group of Afghan soldiers and then went into battle with them against the Taliban. Lara Logan reports, Jan. 31, 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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by squid1999 February 21, 2010 8:14 PM EST
RetMSG,
Don't waste your time and words trying to explain the dynamic decision making process involved with sustained combat operations because most of the audience watching this trash "television journalism" has never experienced anything beyond what they see from the liberal mainstream media.

Contrary to some previous comments posted, most Americans believe in the dedication, devotion to duty, and the intestinal strength and fortitude of the U.S. military, and particularly the special operations community. HOOYAH to you and the men and women who serve today!
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by retmsg4chang February 9, 2010 11:32 PM EST
Those who would criticize and belittle the soldiers who now serve give tacit aid to the very same enemy who would just as soon kill you because you are from the West and, in particular, the United States. It is not hard to discern your individual limited combat experiences (if, indeed, you have any). War, has no predetermined outcomes. The professional trains constantly and, if fate looks favors him, he survives one more day with nothing to torment his soul. Pride is almost always accompanied with pain and sometimes the pain is from knowing that the decision one makes didn't produce the results that we hope for. You "Monday morning" QBs need to get off your sorry behinds and join those who risk all to keep you safe. If you can't, shut the Hell up.
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by tman20081 February 4, 2010 9:15 AM EST
I must say I am appalled at the recklessness of these troops and the serviceman who discharged his weapon and the richochet that struck those children that man should be up before a tribunal or court martial.How could a person with proper training, especially a so called Green Beret not know to take into consideration the posibility of richochet? Why didn't he discharge his weapon in the air? These guys are scared and their fear is making them reckless. These guys deserve all the angry blow back they receive from the Afghani community. I don't think anything will come of this, these guys think they're untouchable!! I for one am outraged by this story and the air of unaccountability that surrounds these guys - they think their guns are some phallic representation.
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by karoke77 February 1, 2010 7:56 PM EST
These guys are ARMY, not Marines.
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by redserpent1 January 31, 2010 8:38 PM EST
i've not watched 60 minutes in over 10 years & decided 2 take a peek ...This war coverage is the quintessence of why the legacy news media is in rapid collapse. In olden days when the "college kids" who did not join the military reported on the newsmedia it got not disagreement cuz they controlled all the reporting. New technology has turned the tables , Yet, yet the established "legacy" news venues have not caught on. I am a veteran, my son is in the Army and been 2 Iraq awainting 2d tour, have friends who'v been 2Iraq ...there is a great divide between reporters and soldiers ...This coverage is so slanted to force fit some facts to support a pacifist ideology, nothing wrong with the ideology except when ignores reality ...the source, motivation and forces behind 911 are a reality
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by Rosenblumtv January 31, 2010 7:29 PM EST
I just watched this pile of garbage on 60 Minutes
This is not journalism
This is pure fluff.
Ms. Logan, who looks like she is on a hot date in almost every shot, never once asks a hard question and never once raises a hard issue.
It's all 'quiet professionals and heroes' until, entirely by accident, the 60 Minutes crew gets their 'hero star' shooting and nearly killing two innocent kids.
ANd you wonder why the Taliban is so popular?
But instead of using this godsend as a point of departure, Ms. Logan continues to slather on the crap.
It's terrible non-journalism all over again.
Didn't you people learn anything from Iraq?
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by cas10025 January 31, 2010 7:28 PM EST
i find Lara Logan's tone in questioning of these marines insulting, especially her remark to one marine being a garage attendant. does she think this was a career choice this man made and, if so, is the something wrong or common about it? in some areas of this country at this point in time this is considered a good job. perhaps he was just starting out in his life's journey. what did Lara Logan on her journey to being a 60 minutes reporter or was she born into this?
cas10025
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by davidhunternyc January 31, 2010 7:26 PM EST
I am just sick to death of the infotainment segments on 60 Minutes. I have yet to see it, but the next segment is going to be on Shaun White or Beyonce. Whatever. The segment on the green beret's is real news. When one green beret accidentally shot that boy in the chest, it was raw and real. Damn, 60 Minutes is suppose to be a news program. My damn email is going to land on deaf ears. There is just too much money to make on inane commercials.
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