Two columns in today's papers illuminate the great divide in how our media views our troops. The vast majority of the media has a disdainful attitude towards the troops (one of the best essays exploring this dynamic is Robert Kaplan's The Media and Medievalism -but there are exceptions : Fox News ( which has programs that honor our troops-Colonel Oliver North's series "War Stories with Oliver North", for example) the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post are notable and honorable exceptions to this prevailing view of the military. Then there are the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. New York Post columnist Ralph Peters has served in the military and associates with soldiers-indeed, he has carved out a reputation of being one of the columnist most familiar with our military. He researches the military and volunteered to serve our nation. In this column, he asks the media to please not insult our soldiers and calls our current forces "history's best-behaved...(Read Full Post)