Today’s Must Reading
The NY Post has Ralph Peters’ column up from Iraq. To say that he doesn’t have a high opinion of the Agenda Media is understatement. Here’s a glimpse into his column:
The reporting out of Baghdad continues to be hysterical and dishonest. There is no civil war in the streets. None. Period. Terrorism, yes. Civil war, no. Clear enough? Yesterday, I crisscrossed Baghdad, visiting communities on both banks of the Tigris and logging at least 25 miles on the streets. With the weekend curfew lifted, I saw traffic jams, booming business, and everyday life in abundance.
Yes, there were bombings yesterday. The terrorists won’t give up on their dream of sectional strife, and know they can count on allies in the media as long as they keep the images of carnage coming. They’ll keep on bombing. But Baghdad isn’t London during the Blitz, and certainly not New York on 9/11.
In other words, Col. Peters is suggesting that we ignore the Agenda Media and start searching for the truth about Iraq. Col. Peters characterizing the ‘reporting’ as hysterical and dishonest is meant to be a hard shot at the nincompoops who act like they’re the authorities on Iraq. It should be noted that Col. Peters isn’t a Bush apologist by any stretch of the imagination.
No one’s fleeing the Black Death, or the plague of terror. And the people here have been impressed that their government reacted effectively to last week’s strife, that their soldiers and police brought order to the streets. The transition is working.
Most Iraqis want better government, better lives, and democracy. It is contagious, after all. Come on over. Talk to them. Watch them risk their lives every day to work with us or with their government to build their own future.
Imagine that. Iraqi people prefer order in their lives. They even prefer freedom over living under a tyrant. Worse yet (in the Agenda Media’s eyes), this freedom thing is contagious. Does this mean that we should put the Agenda Media on suicide watch? I’m sure this isn’t what they wanted to hear but I’m equally positive that it isn’t that big a deal to them since they make most of their ‘reports’ up anyway.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
March 1st, 2006 at 4:16 pm
“it isn’t that big a deal to them since they make most of their ‘reports’ up anyway.”
Unlike the White House, whose assessments have been proven spot-on before and throughout the war.
With Global Warming in mind, it is altogether appropriate that your position resembles more and more that of a Polar Bear on a melting ice floe.
March 1st, 2006 at 4:37 pm
I’d rather with people who were wrong than with people who are liars. ANYTIME.
March 1st, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Media is about selling. What makes a better story. Which front page story will make you buy the paper. Civil War in Iraq or Traffic Jams in Baghdad.
It is terrible but it is the market at work.