so the trip to mogadishu was…r&r?
richard engel, our beloved desert iguana is now embedded with the 82nd airborne division in afghanistan and is once again delivering some amazing reporting (see video below). just a couple weeks before engel took a trip to mogadishu,somalia one of, if not the most dangerous place(s) on earth to see what life is like there in the place most famous for blackhawk down. he likened reporting there to ‘reporting on the moon’.
engel is one of my favorite reporters and i have this dream of meeting him and going out with him on a date someday but with all the work he’s done covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the general happenings in the middle east, i’m beginning to wonder if engel’s next trip should be to intensive therapy at an undisclosed location. another reporter the passionate michael ware had to quit his job at cnn a while back because the network would not give him time to deal with his ptsd. anyone who watched wares reporting on cnn could detect that something ‘wasn’t right’ with ware. the war clearly took a toll on him.
so richard, if you want our date to be perfect, please take a little time to ‘take care of you’.
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It’s a wonderful thing when reporters actually get to do their job and report.
Working for a news organization helps. LOL