Aiding the Enemy

I don’t get it!

You are an American. Your country is at war. You are a reporter for an American newspaper. You are reporting on that war. You realize that the enemy’s only hope of victory is to convince the American public that we should give up and leave. You talk to one of the enemy. You give the enemy what they need more than anything, a conduit to deliver their propaganda to the American people. I JUST DON’T GET IT!

In this interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel, New York Times reporter Ian Fisher describes his perfidious discussion with an Iraqi evil doer.

Siegel asks Fisher, “ Do you think the man was addressing an American public which if it turns against the war upon hearing such things and hearing a fighter speak or reading comments in your paper; do you think that was the idea, that he was trying do political work on the home front?”

Fisher responds, “Yes, definitely. He was very interested that we were from the New York Times. He heard of it. He knew that it was big. He kept saying, ‘I have a message for the world. People have to know that we aren’t going to give up; know that Americans can’t rule us.’ He was pretty savvy that way.”

The transcription is mine.

This just isn’t right. There should be a severe penalty for aiding the enemy. Mr. Fisher and the New York Times should be kicked out of Iraq.

If you can stomach it, The NY Times published this article last week about Fisher’s conversation with the evil doer.