Not weighing in on the Glen G stupidity of arguing over hypothetical’s...

However, I'm wondering if this will matter for those that want to chest-thump and flag-wave, but the guy who took the photograph, Joao Silva, isn't an American. He was born Portuguese and lives in South Africa. He works for the NYT as a contract photographer.

Notice all the right-leaning blogs calling him a NYT photographer? Leaving out the very critical detail that the man is not an American citizen and thus doesn't owe any allegiance to the US. NYT, of course, is a different story.

So a non-American is standing there and take pictures of someone shooting at American soldiers? Yeah, we don't like it, we are the good guys and it’s our guys getting shot at but if the guy isn't American, why can't he take pictures? That would be a worthy debate.

I can understand getting upset with NYT IF they contracted this guy to go out and SPECIFICALLY take pics of a sniper shooting at US troops (and that should be looked into as that would be like putting a contract out on our troops i.e. treason) but most likely this guy went out, "embedded" himself into local population, figured out who to talk to and took some pictures they allowed. Shopped them to NYT who paid for the most provocative ones.

If it were me, I would be alerting the soldiers, but then I'm an American. Mr. Silva isn't.

Sorry, continue with the flag-waving....

Thank you for yet another irrelevant comment. We know that Joao Silva is not an American, and that has absolutley no bearing whatsoever on Greenwald's comments.

Glen Greenwald has proven time and again what a bottomfeeder he is, so honestly his position fails to surprise or dismay me; personally I'd probably faint from shock if he admitted (in an honest, genuine manner) that he wouldn't, but would somehow find a way to notify our troops or botch the sniping instead. But as we all know, such pipedreams merely distract us from the point at hand, which is figuring out how best we can help our national and international interests, as well as supporting our troops abroad.

irrelevant...hmmm, only to the chest-thumpers. If you are going to hype the FUD, expect someone to distinguish fact from fiction soon enuf. From the Liberal Elite link you provided, Real Ugly American states:

"Would you as an American allow this to happen? Furthermore personally profit from it? Either financially or by gaining praise from your fellow feckless, unconscionable, amoral peers?

Without question Mr. Silva is all the above and more.

You tell me what is the proper degree of separation to make it journalistically ethical to stand by and watch someone murder another American?"

So RUA is basically mis-informed, but don't let the facts get in the way of hyperventilating over the answer to a hypothetical scenario based on criteria that turned out to be inaccurate.

The accurate question would be to ask if Greenwald would stand there take pictures of a sniper shooting Brazilian (or one of your choice) troops? And then of course, most Americans wouldn't care how he answered cause they don't care about the question...

whats the toddler threatening reference about?

I did point out in the post that Silva was not an American Matt.

I didn't realize there were rules to posing hypothetical questions.

I in fact did ask greenwald if he would have taken the picture and he said yes.

Pretty sure he understood the question as we had an extensive email exhange after the fact.

Loyalty test: Time to declare war on the enemy

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DianaWest/2006/07/21/loyalty_test:_time_to_declare_war_on_the_enemy?page=full&comments=true#postComments