Thursday, June 15, 2006
Great news, and how it's reported
The huge 'take' of both documents and dead Mohammedans resulting from Zarqawi's death is wonderful news. For the last year or so, we'd been just sitting there waiting for the enemy to kill more of us. Our troops were certainly doing something in that time: building schools and water systems, but not destroying the enemy.
Now we're back in business!
It's sort of interesting (but hardly surprising) to note the headlines on this story in the Google news search. Essentially they fall into three categories:
The leftist media focus only on the scary part, the future danger:
US Identifies al-Zarqawi's Successor
Most foreign papers focus on the documents and the strategic implications:
Al-Qaida sought US-Iran war
Only a few - mainly Southern - TV stations and newspapers give a headline that encourages Americans to think about our progress toward victory:
Hundreds of raids net hundreds of insurgents
The latter form would have been universal in WW2. ¶ 9:21 AM
Now we're back in business!
It's sort of interesting (but hardly surprising) to note the headlines on this story in the Google news search. Essentially they fall into three categories:
The leftist media focus only on the scary part, the future danger:
US Identifies al-Zarqawi's Successor
Most foreign papers focus on the documents and the strategic implications:
Al-Qaida sought US-Iran war
Only a few - mainly Southern - TV stations and newspapers give a headline that encourages Americans to think about our progress toward victory:
Hundreds of raids net hundreds of insurgents
The latter form would have been universal in WW2. ¶ 9:21 AM
