Good question, Chad. In my more
generous moments, I blame press laziness. If reporters link on to
CENTCOM news, they see a list of headlines that do seem to appear bleak. Each attack, each mishap and casualty rates a separate story and headline, while CENTCOM lumps all the daily humanitarian and security successes together on two different reports only. Each report could be broken down into dozens of separate positive stories. The list would then appear far different daily for the inquiring and careless press. Of course the Dems would then accuse the DoD of minimizing the casualties. The truth is just the opposite!