[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Good post. Thanks Stultis.

I have noticed lately a distressing tendency on the part of those who support the intervention in Iraq to rest their case largely on underreported good news.

 

...More to the point, one has to be prepared to support a campaign—or a cause—that is going badly

 

Sorry Christopher. I have noticed a distressing tendency on the part of the mainstream press to attempt to repeat what they did to our troops during Vietnam. Putting out the good news in the first place was to prevent the press from doing what they're doing now - working to make our cause 'go badly'.

 

For my part, the good news is not an attempt to ignore reality, but to portray the bigger picture, to defend the troops, to inform the world -  to counter the wilfull destruction of our efforts by a partisan press who played this deadly, anti-American game in Vietnam - inciting unrest on the ground, sowing dissent at home - getting our troops killed, extending the war, and assisting a deadly enemy spread a deadly philosophy around the globe.

Fact is, by ignoring most of the good news - the successes of the troops daily from day one - the mainstream press is complicite in the "unrest" in Iraq today. They do have "blood on their hands". They hyped bad news and handed their mighty pens to our enemies daily, and still treat our enemies as moral equivalents. Our FREE press had a REAL part in the war "going badly." By misinforming the world, America's FREE (thanks to our troops past and present) press helped  turn opinion both home and abroad against our efforts, as they did pre-war by promoting Saddam's apologists at ANSWER - and giving cowardly international leaders an excuse to pull out promised troops and $$$$.

We need an army fighting the culture war at home. Defending the troops. Perhaps Christopher can show us how to restate "why we fight" any more than we do daily to reach the  people who feed 24/7 on Rather, Couric and Oprah.

More to the point, one has to be prepared to support a campaign—or a cause—that is going badly

No question. And to call to account those who are aiding our enemies daily. Too few columns re. your destructive Dem. press peers over the past seven months, Mr. Hitchens.

I am glad you are on the side of the troops, and the war.

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[Alamo-Girl]

Fact is, by ignoring most of the good news - the successes of the troops daily from day one - the mainstream press is complicite in the "unrest" in Iraq today. They do have "blood on their hands".

So true. So very true.

[PhilDragoo]

Arguments about democracy and reform cannot be phrased in terms of U.N. resolutions—especially when two of the relevant regime's clients are among the permanent membership of the Security Council—but there is every reason to believe that the United States has chosen the right side in the region, in principle as well as in practice.

The generator missiles were half french, half Russian.

The UN routinely puts the likes of Syria or Libya at the head of its commissions.

We need the UN building for a decent USO for our warriors' R & R.

It's nice that Hitchens figured out the greens are full of crap--but then, some of us were never taken in.