Back In Circulation
Greyhawk in the sand:
Care package arrives. Care package is opened. Cookies are found - the home made sort, this particular batch made by my mom. They are now being distributed, by ones and twos, to those who are moments away from being outside the wire.
They have a big mission tonight. “Might even make the papers”, one says to me, “though nothing we’ve done so far has…”
Unfortunately, if so it will be as a story of failure. The mission itself will succeed, of course, perhaps with or perhaps without a bit of the old ultra-violence, but the mere fact that the mission was required will be touted as a failure. I predict this out loud, knowing the listener well enough to know he knew it anyhow, and that such things aren’t his motivation.
“Yeah” he agrees, “you’re right.”
There is something worse I could have pointed out - making the papers is a certainty only if one of our guys gets killed. He knows this, too, but neither of us chooses to express that thought out loud.
“You want a cookie?” I ask.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:29 pm on Monday, August 13, 2007
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August 14th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Too many of the MSM editorialize, giving opinions on what they don’t understand, about events they know nothing about, Live from their narrow political tunnel. They claim to be a vital service to the country. Fourth Estate, or Fifth Column?