To: jlallen who wrote (7318 ) 11/1/2001 7:56:07 AM From: jttmab Read Replies (1) | Respond to When it comes to evaluating crediblity, I pick the DOD over CNN and the other networks..... latimes.com Pentagon officials have said repeatedly that the war effort is succeeding. "We're pretty much on our plan . . . we're in the driver's seat," Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at Monday's news briefing. But congressional critics, and even some U.S. allies, question this assertion. They wonder if the U.S. campaign is stalling, perhaps even backfiring, given continued resistance by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, the accidental bombing of civilian targets, and the failure to capture Osama bin Laden. Major news organizations have journalists aboard several U.S. warships in the Arabian Sea, as well as in narrowly circumscribed areas of Afghanistan and in a number of surrounding countries. But the media have had no direct access to military units on the ground or to the sites from which they have been launched.
