What's Wrong With These Guys?

I read the reporting of Bush administration/US military friendly reporters like Michael Yon and Bill Roggio. They seem to believe that by killing large numbers of Iraqis and blowing up their homes, businesses, mosques and hospitals, shutting down commerce and educational facilities in their neighborhoods and ceasing public services and utilities, that we are somehow "teaching them a lesson". They seem to believe that sometime very soon, the majority of Iraqis will respond to this "punishment" and remediate their behavior, becoming the kind of citizens that General Petraeus and the American occupying authority would like them to be. They seem to believe that the reason that the Iraqi people have not already become "good citizens", is because of outside agitation by forces hostile to the benevolent liberation of Iraq by their American allies. They seem to believe that the reason the war is not supported at home is because the occupying forces have not been successful enough. They see no moral issues with unilateral invasion and occupation of a sovereign country at all, nor with the diaspora and genocide of it's citizenry that has ensued. They also believe that the lack of support for the wars of aggression in the Middle East by the American public, is a serious failing, unpatriotic and possibly treason.

There are many journalists covering the American wars in the Middle East. They come from Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Africa, most of the countries of the Western hemisphere, as well as large numbers of the indigenous variety. They represent every imaginable news service, television and radio network, newspaper and magazine, that make up the World's informational media. There are large numbers of American journalists documenting the Middle East wars. Every one of these reporters, from all over the world and vastly different audiences, tell a much different story than Mike Roggio and Micheal Yon, who cater exclusively to those Americans who still support the Bush wars. They tell a story of populations decimated, uprooted from ancestral homes, living under constant fear of violence and death, hunger, civil chaos, despair and rising rage. They tell of a geo-political open wound spewing corruption and a rising insurgency that is gaining support at every unfortunate turn of events. They tell of a World looking on in horror, as a super power, with fifty times more military capability than the rest of the World combined, reels drunkenly, seeming out of control, pummeling the life out of remote nations that posed them no threat, and did them no harm.

I read Mike Roggio and Micheal Yon, in the hope that I might gain some insight as to why the Bush administration is doing these things and why they still have any support, though admittedly small, within our government or among the public.