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Doing the Afghan Spin
You did realize we've been kicking butt and taking names over in Afghanistan, right?
The last two weeks have seen an ambitious Taliban offensive shot to pieces. As many as a thousand Taliban gunmen, in half a dozen different groups, have passed over the Pakistani border, or been gathered within Afghanistan, and sent off to try and take control of remote villages and districts. The offensive was a major failure, with nearly half the Taliban getting killed, wounded or captured.
Of course, if you're reading headlines like "U.S. Voices Regret for Deaths of 16 Afghans", and "Thousands of Afghan villagers flee battle zone", you can be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
American Colonel: “You know, you never beat us in a single tactical engagement.”
North Vietnamese General: “That may be true, but it is also irrelevant.”
In this day and age, the international media decides the winners and losers of all wars. One side could go to any length to spare innocents, and the other side could go to any length to target them, but the media can smear any saint and sanitize any sinner... witness the people lining up now to defend Saddam Hussein.
If America loses heart in Iraq, the media will be the unchallenged overlords of the entire world... and they will not be kind overlords, either.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on May 25, 2006 04:54 PM