“Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?” Marine Sergeant Major Dan Daly (USMC 1899-1929), Belleau Wood, France WWI.
NBC and the legacy media, unlike a lot of the grunts I met in Iraq, would reply YES!
In legacy media’s world, only bad things happen in Iraq, which is why when the NBC nightly news ran a story about kidnappings in Iraq the fact that ransom kidnappings are a global phenomenon was left out.
Mexico had 3,000 reported kidnappings in 2003.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4702173.stm
The Christian Science Monitor puts the number of kidnappings in Mexico as high 4,000 each year and it is an organized crime.