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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Cogito who wrote (77673)	6/26/2006 7:32:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 81568

Others have already pointed out that you're wrong about Mosul. The recent news from Mosul is not good, but Mosul was quiet for a long time. The current reports seems to say that the sectarian strife in Baghdad has spread to Mosul. This is something new the insurgency is morphing into. It's certainly a sign of ruthlessness but not necessarily of strength; slaughtering whatever helpless target you can lay your hands on, since you can't manage to kill troops, is not really likely to win friends or be militarily effective. If four bombs go off in Baghdad, and no bombs go off in Mosul, would it be good reporting to ignore the explosions and report that Mosul was quiet? No. That's not the way news works. I realize the news works by saying "Oh, a bomb went off, wow." but that's not how it ought to work if it were well done. If it were well done, in addition to daily reports, we would see analyses on the front page every few month that tried to make sense of the overall strategic situation as of now vs a few months ago, including maps that show how the areas of conflict have shifted. IOW, cover the war AS a war. We have seen way too little of that. Much easier to do 'police blotter' reporting.

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