The Other Side in Iraq

Victor Davis Hanson once again reminds us of the lopsided coverage of the war in Iraq by the global media:

It is an odd war, because the side that I think is losing garners all the press, whether by blowing up the great golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, or by blowing up an American each day. Yet we hear nothing of the other side that is ever so slowly, shrewdly undermining the enemy.

Hanson shows that Iraq is predominantly stable in the urban centres and it is only a matter of time before the insurgent terrorists are repelled by newly trained Iraqi security forces. These developments hardly believable based on the quantity of media coverage devoted to every sign of failure by the American-led forces or the Iraq government. Hanson also wonders why none of the media have investigated the whereabouts of the 100,000 criminals that Saddam Hussein released from prison, prior to his removal from power.

One searches in vain for the nobility of journalism anymore.

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Published:
February 28, 2006 / 5:16 pm
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Islam & the West, Western Civilization, World Affairs
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