Fall into Summer
Swallow sightings continue, as the turnaround in war reporting persists. AP reports 2007 was the deadliest year for US troops, but getting better. The report includes a lengthy discussion of surge strategy, how it worked, positive results, the fact that those who died contributed to bringing this about:
BAGHDAD (AP) — With just under two months left in the year, 2007 is on course to be the deadliest year on record for American forces in Iraq, despite a recent sharp drop in U.S. deaths.
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“It’s due to the troop surge, which allowed us to go into areas that were previously safe havens for insurgents,” (Maj. Winfield) Danielson said. “Having more soldiers, and having them out in the communities, certainly contributes to our casualties.”
… no yeah-but, no al-Qaeda resiliency, no bullshit-alert cue words such as “insists” or “maintains.” Apparently U.S. military spokesmen, Bush strategy are not to be viewed as entirely full of it any more.
Face-value reporting on the Red Crescent report notwithstanding, maybe someone got the memo on institutional arrogance.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:43 am on Monday, November 5, 2007
6 Responses to “Fall into Summer”
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November 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
History has begun its relentless revision, and this time, not to the liking of the defeatists. There will be much scurrying from the light by those whose printed and broadcast opinions led to the deaths of the valiant.
November 5th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Unfortunately RebeccaH, because those defeatists control the very media that should ask for an accounting, there won’t be. Those who should have answered for the reeducation camps and the killing fields, still refuse to acknowledge their participation in creating them.
(Ref. Kerry campaign)
November 5th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
But we forget, MikeH, that a new generation is coming. Every generation re-examines. We may not see the accounting during our own time on the field, but it will come, and I believe wholeheartedly that it will not be kind to those who could have stood tall and didn’t.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Don’t get too excited, the AP weasels will likely revert to form.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:35 am
There is much reevaluation going on already. Subscriptions are falling for all but a few newspapers and news magazines, as they ought.
The pendulum used to swing regularly in this country, but that was before we raised the last several generations under the “guidance” of the progressives that made the 60’s and 70’s such a grand time. These days we many more people who drank the kool-aid. Too many have no fundamental education to fall back on, but are steeped in the useless transnational agenda of PC codes, instead of respect for persons, a diversity that isn’t, an intolerant multiculturalism that rewrites the history of the West, and a deadly, man-hating environmentalism–all of which seeks to destroy the Enlightenment and reverse the Industrial Revolution. These people have no context in which to judge the world and are militant in their ignorance. It has all happened so slowly that, like that frog in the heating water, we barely realize what we’re in trouble.
November 8th, 2007 at 1:53 am
Hear hear!