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To: Rollcast... who wrote (19455)	12/11/2003 3:09:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793639

‘It would be rather sobering,’ I wrote in August, ‘were Iraq to demonstrate it can get along without them.’ And what do you know? It’s remarkable how quickly a problem goes away once the people with a vested interest in there being a problem go away. The same thing would happen if the media fled Iraq. They have the same interest in a ‘Vietnam quagmire’ that the NGOs have in a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’, and if anything they work even more assiduously at promoting it. This is clearly true to some extent. If only we could determine how much.