Reply #41: I like Chivers because he tells it like it is, and lets the chips fall where they may

[pinboy3niner]

I don't want accounts from 'journalists' who have an agenda favoring "my side." In anything--and especially in making policy decisions--we need accurate, honest information. The good, the bad and the ugly.

I can understand the frustration of ff's, expecially when their friends are dying and being maimed around them. They're paying a terrible price for freedom, and it's only natural for emotions to run high and for feelings of frustration to spill out. Chivers is simply reporting what he observes.

And I don't think he's a weapons expert. As a good reporter, he has researched issues and consulted experts to get at the truth--as he did with the Spanish cluster bombs used by Gaddafi forces.

Chivers is one of the correspondents to whom I pay attention when he's sending dispatches from the war zone. Whether or not I like what he's reporting, I feel I'm getting an honest account.