I spoke to one of the reporters, a young man named Julian. He was in his early thirties and a star in the German media. The experience of traveling with the caskets had affected him. He told me he’d been one of the more outspoken voices in the German press supporting the war, putting him in a small minority. That’s funny, I said. In the United States, only a minority in the media were opposed to escalating in Afghanistan.
“I supported this, and what if it doesn’t work?” he asked. “I know these soldiers; I have spent time with them in combat. So to have it be a waste…What would that mean?”
It was interesting: Julian was prepared to take ownership of the position he took and the consequences of it. I’d rarely heard an American journalist express any such regrets or take responsibility for the policies that had promoted. Maybe it was a European thing.
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