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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (87880)	3/30/2003 1:46:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 281500

Barry Rubin comments on the coverage of the War in Iraq: In some ways, this is a crash course for Americans in getting the kind of international treatment which has long been dished out to Israel. For example: American forces risk their lives and make completing their mission more difficult in order to limit civilian casualties, but are portrayed internationally as brutal and bloodthirsty. US motives and methods are slandered and misrepresented. Honest and regrettable mistakes, for example when wayward bombs do hit civilians, are portrayed as deliberate crimes. Hatred of you is deliberately promoted, even though this attitude is undeserved. At the same time, the adversary's misdeeds are downplayed or go completely unreported. Other countries propose peace plans that ignore your interests and seek to steal away your battlefield gains. You are told to give up because total victory is not achieved in a relatively short time, and it is demanded that you compromise and make concessions to those who have shown a systematic failure to live up to their past commitments. jpost.com