Right Side of the Rainbow

Dafydd says mainstream media are missing the point:

To most of us, the following two statements seem somehow, you know, connected:

• Deaths of American, Coalition, and Iraqi soldiers, along with civilians, have risen somewhat in the past week or so;
• The Iraqi Army, with U.S. air support, initiated a major offensive against the mighty al-Mahdi militia of Muqtada Sadr in the past week or so.

But to elite, new-school journalists, these two observations are completely discrete from each other; there is no connection, and the first is only explicable by concluding that we must be losing (or have already lost) the war. Why, what other possible explanation could there be?

I still have questions about the Administration’s management of the war in Iraq. But provided we give them clear military objectives, adequate reinforcements and proper supplies, I have no questions about the capacity of the U.S. Armed Forces to win a war.

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