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2006-04-04 Iraq

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-04 01:08|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This Newsweek article is full of empty metaphors. They serve as a substitute for the raw numbers - which inconveniently contradict its whole thesis. We know that enemy propagandists are coming out with false reports of sectarian massacres - which are taken at face value by enemy-sympathizing reporters and Democrats. If Iraq is howling chaos, what would he call Chechnya, where up to a million Chechnyans have been displaced, and entire towns lie in rubble? What would he call Kashmir, where six decades after partition, Muslim terrorists have attacked Indian cities again and again, including government buildings? Newsweek's hysteria and tendency towards purple prose in place of numbers is worth of the Nation and Mother Jones. This isn't too surprising, I suppose, given that more and more writers from these two far-left publications are branching out into the mainstream media.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-04-04 01:32|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-04-04 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 What is real is Newsweek's inability to avoid rehashing drug-addled Vietnam war movies as a template for their Iraq commentaries. What is surreal is that Newsweek expects its audience to accept its demented hysterics as news.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-04-04 01:35|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-04-04 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I look forward to Newsweek's critiques of various players' mistakes in the upcoming Masters tournament. Go Vijay!

Posted by Perfesser 2006-04-04 09:25|| 2006-04-04 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Picture NATO troops in Bosniathere more than a decade and counting...

Funny how that's never trotted out as a "quagmire", isn't it.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-04-04 09:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-04-04 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Dump on Newsweak all you want, and I like to also, but I suspect there will be Americans based in Iraq in 50 years. And nobody will be bitching about it any more than they will be about the troops still in Japan, Germany, Italy, or the Grand Duchy of Fenwick.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-04 10:43|| 2006-04-04 10:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Why would be not be in Iraq for the foreseeable future? It's the MSM that's pushing to get all the troops out, but why?

Oh, I forgot, we be infidels, and the MSM doesn't want our infidel troops in Mooslim lands -- or, was that OBL that first said that?

Posted by Captain America 2006-04-04 10:58|| 2006-04-04 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7
If they want to see howling chaos, they should take a trip to New Delhi. And there isn't a Green Zone there.

Posted by Varun of Delhi 2006-04-04 13:59|| 2006-04-04 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 This article isn't completely biased or anything ..................................................

Posted by bgrebel 2006-04-04 15:39|| 2006-04-04 15:39|| Front Page Top

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