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Vietnam was the first war to give us reporting in virtually real time. Iraq is the first to give us virtual reporting. That doesn’t necessarily make it biased against the war; it does make it biased against the truth.
Had the MSM never been allowed in Iraq, the insurgency would have dried up and blown away like a fart in a tornado about 3 years ago. Without the massive aid and comfort provided them by the NYT, the LAT, CBS, and the host of cut-and-runners who always materialize when the war isn’t fun any more, al Sadr et al. would have packed it in and just bided their time until they could exploit the popular vote to take over by legal means what they couldn’t by suicide bombing.
Incidentally, the same comment holds true for ‘Nam. And if you’ve ever been to Hawaii, you see evidence everywhere of the Japanese strategy of waiting. In the post-war years they have purchased what they could not achieve by military conquest.
Posted by on 12/03/06 at 04:10 PMAs Steyn said, they (the media) are either terribly naive or semi-traitorous.
I don’t think they are naive.
Posted by on 12/08/06 at 09:49 AM
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