Take the "Iraqi resistance" attack on the Fallujah power plant in the news today. Iraqi "resistance"? Iraq isn't a nation protesting our "occupation". The Iraqi people are worried we'll leave before we've taken out the "resistance" - leaving them defenseless against their former torturers, assorted gangsters, despots and terrorist wannabes - the bad guys.
Iraqi "resistance" equals mostly a small % of regime dead-enders without a future located in former Ba'athist Party strongholds - and in small pockets across the nation. They're desperate, because our awesome troops are taking them out and they know they will not find sympathy or cover with their victims - their countrymen.
Iraq resembles the wild west, with frightened townspeople depending on our "sheriffs" to clean up the town and protect them. It in no way resembles Nazi-occupied France - except perhaps to the bad guys.
"Resistance", like "occupation," is an anti-American talking point straight from our enemy's well-worn playbook - Communist, Islamist, socialist and Dems. Our troops, our CIC, the newly freed Iraqi people and the free world deserve better from our press. Rant over.
...Fourth, for all the doom and gloom we are making amazing progress. If on the evening of September 11th, an outside observer had predicted that the following would transpire in two years, he would have been considered unhinged: Saddam Hussein gone with the wind; democratic birth pangs in Iraq; the Taliban finished and Mr. Karzai attempting to create constitutional government; Yasser Arafat ostracized by the American government and lord of a dilapidated compound; bin Laden either dead or leading a troglodyte existence; all troops slated to leave Saudi Arabia — and by our own volition, not theirs; Iran and Syria apprehensive rather than boastful about their own promotion of terror; and the Middle East worried that the United States is both unpredictable in its righteous anger and masterful in its use of arms, rather than customarily irresolute and reactive.
Finally, do not expect to read headlines like "85% of Baghdad's Power Restored," "Afghan Women Enroll in Schools by the Millions," or "Americans Put an End to Secret Police and Arbitrary Executions in Iraq." It is not the nature of the present generation of our elites — so unlike our own forefathers in postwar Japan or Germany — to express confidence in our culture, much less in the moral nature of our struggle to end the conditions that caused this war.
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