Journalists vs. Soldiers

Yesterday, I sat next to a right-winger as the television set aired a follow-up story regarding the particular journalists killed in Iraq one week prior.

He opined, of the journalists, "They're stupid. They shouldn't be over there anyway, so when they get killed, they shouldn't go crying about it."

I know that he would not express a similar sentiment regarding, for example, the U.S. soldiers in Iraq.