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The intrepid Michael Yon drops a big bomb at the end of his piece in the Weekly Standard decrying what he considers military censorship of the war. Remember Michael Fumento's piece saying the only good reporting comes from embeds? Yon agrees and says it's the Pentagon's fault there aren't any embeds. (Well, ok, nine.) He doesn't explain why he thinks what he thinks, but dig this:

Early this spring, when I reported from Afghan farms about this year's bumper opium crop, people thought I was using that opium. Now it is common knowledge that the opium trade is fueling a Taliban comeback. Mark this on your calendar: Spring of 2007 will be a bloodbath in Afghanistan for NATO forces. Our British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch, and other allies will be slaughtered in Afghanistan if they dare step off base in the southern provinces, and nobody is screaming at the tops of their media-lungs about the impending disaster. I would not be surprised to see a NATO base overrun in Afghanistan in 2007 with all the soldiers killed or captured. And when it happens, how many will claim they had no idea it was so bad and blame the media for failing to raise the alarm? Here it is: WARNING! Troops in Afghanistan are facing slaughter in 2007!

Emphasis mine. How about we get some reporting on that?