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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (161910)5/13/2005 3:14:05 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
There is a story that the press is failing to cover in Iraq - it's the story of the amount of reconstruction that is getting done there, with the support of 95%+ of the people. It's the story of peace and quiet in the non-Sunni areas.

This is true. It was also very much the case in Rhodesia in the mid to late 1970's. If you read the western media, the place was falling apart. Yet violence was fairly isolated, and not that many people were dying. One took precautions, and generally fared OK. Of course, day to day ordinary life does not make for news. People dying does.

The problem in the long run is that a surprisingly small number of people dying spectacularly and unexpectedly although with continued regularity, causes places to fall apart. Pretending that life is normal, which it is for 95% of the time, does not change this.
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