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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (13495)	8/20/2007 1:43:08 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

According to an analysis by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, news coverage is not only shifting from Iraq to the campaign trail; the coverage itself is focused on the debate rather than the actual war going on. “It’s a lot easier to cover it as a political debate in Washington than to cover it on the ground in Iraq,” Tom Rosenstiel, the project director, told The Times. The Lede has a follow-up question for readers: Is it also easier to follow the war through the two-sided prism of politics, rather than the more complicated situation described in daily coverage by reporters based in Iraq? How do you form your opinions on the war? The truth about the military situation in Iraq is elusive because armchair commentators are mired in military history books that bear little relevance to what is actually going on. It took the soldier/authors of the Times OpEd to finally shed some light on the war. Give Arabs credit: they learned from the first Gulf War that donning uniforms and engaging in some sort of dress parade war with rules is going to hand us victory. Increasing our troop strength, or pining for a bigger force in the first place, leads nowhere. “Asyemmetrical war” is not the right term either: it’s more like hellish chaos, the last situation we need to put our troops in. This is what any rational assessment of our predicament has confirmed. Installing martial law to bring a semblance of order is the necessary first step. In order for this effort to have legitimacy, all US troops should be withdrawn. — Posted by Mike Roddy thelede.blogs.nytimes.com