The Hypocrisy of War

Fifteen British soliders have recently been banned from speaking to the media for a price regarding their kidnapping in Iran.

Officials banned further paid interviews as critics complained that the
fees, reportedly as high as six figures, were unseemly and a slap at families of
military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.The appearance of the first
paid interviews also brought new criticism that the 15 crew members yielded too
easily to Iranian pressure to make confessions and apologies. Some worried the
crew's actions revealed a loss of Britain's famed "stiff upper lip" in tough
times."The sailors and marines held in Iran have been so compliant and have
already said so much that they have caused excruciating embarrassment to many
people in this country," a retired colonel, Bob Stewart, wrote in The Times
newspaper.

Nothing says freedom quite like muzzling the truth and someone's ability to speak. You'd hate for citizens to hear from the soliders about the realities of war, instead of hearing rhetoric from government spinsters about how great is it and how the good guys are winning. Sometimes the truth hurts, in which case authoritarian governments are forced to clamp down.

Aren't soliders supposedly fighting for liberty and freedom? Good thing they're afforded that same right at home. I guess that whole line about freedom was just a farce.