Wednesday, September 14, 2005
'It's great that we can... actually help Americans'
Buck at smijer & Buck linked to a Democracy Now transcript that involved an interview with some soldiers patrolling the streets of New Orleans.
There was an incredibly telling exchange buried deep in the breathless questions about a dead body on the street. (I'll say up front that I'm typically skeezed by some of the "indy media" efforts. Advocacy, good; documenting reality, good; passing advocacy off as objective journalism, bad.) Amy Goodman was asking soldiers where they were stationed and about their service, and this exchange occurred:
There was an incredibly telling exchange buried deep in the breathless questions about a dead body on the street. (I'll say up front that I'm typically skeezed by some of the "indy media" efforts. Advocacy, good; documenting reality, good; passing advocacy off as objective journalism, bad.) Amy Goodman was asking soldiers where they were stationed and about their service, and this exchange occurred:
AMY GOODMAN: What's your name?I don't know if he meant that the way it sounded to me, but man, does that ever sum it up well. This whole tragedy makes it more plain that we are not doing all we can to "actually help" Americans.
MATTHEW COHEN: Matthew Cohen, Captain, U.S. Army.
AMY GOODMAN:Wyoming also.
MATTHEW COHEN: No, I'm from California.
AMY GOODMAN: Where?
MATTHEW COHEN: San Francisco.
AMY GOODMAN: Where were you in Iraq?
MATTHEW COHEN: We were in southern Baghdad.
AMY GOODMAN: When did you come out?
MATTHEW COHEN: We got back last March as a unit. basically the whole company came back in late March.
AMY GOODMAN: How does this compare?
MATTHEW COHEN: I'll tell you, Ma'am, this is great to be down here. It's great that we can kind of come out and actually help Americans.
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