The Resurgent Milestone
Now that the MSM have been all but forced to acknowledge that we’re winning pretty handily in Iraq, theyv’e decided to shift the narrative of defeat and woe to Afghanistan. Today’s headline features the old familiar “milestone”, which is often “grim”.
I don’t blame the MSM for using the old “grim milestone” cliche. it worked pretty well for them for a few years in Iraq, hacking down public opinion to the point where defeat looked like a real possibility. Luckily for us, we have a President with the resolve to keep fighting the war until it was won and a military just stuffed to the gills with brave and smart soldiers who refused to accept the MSM narrative of humiliating defeat.
It looks like we’ll have to fight the same battle with the likes of the New York Times until at least after the election. Then again, the Times had never hesitated to run a hit piece or two to damage a candidate on the eve of an election.
(via memeorandum)
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And how does any of what you wrote here address the situation in Afghanistan or what we should do about it? I mean, other than elect Presidents with the "resolve to win" or somesuch.
What does the Times propose, Xanthippas? What has is ever proposed but surrender or retreat or some kind or another?
If you're hot to find someone do porpose useful ideas, why not kvetch to the Times whose article is pretty sparse on the details of winning.
I'm pointing out, as I think I made clear, that the same defeatist language the Times and other media outlets used for years about iraq is now migrating to Afghanistan. I'd be willing to bet you money that should Barack Obama become President, hundreds of reporters aroudn the nation will suddenly forget the words "grim milestone" even existed.
Jimmie – "What does the Times propose, Xanthippas? What has is ever proposed but surrender or retreat or some kind or another?"
What it always suggests, which happens to coincide with its only purpose in existing – elect more democrats.
More to the point, Xanthippas, what would YOU do about Afghanistan?
Well?
The focues of this article is clearly NOT about the strategy in Iraq. It's an article about how the conflict has grown deadlier for our soldiers, and the heartache that their families have endured watching their sons and daughters fight in a largely ignored conflict…largely ignored by people on the right, most especially.
It does not follow from pointing out that a lot of soldiers are getting killed in a conflict that's getting deadlier, that we should withdraw. The editors of the NY Times have repeatedly called for more focus on Afghanistan, as you would know if you did more than read what somebody else says they say.
MarkJ,
See here.
Be prepared to read for awhile.
No, it's about defeatism in Afghanistan, a war that the MSM largely ignored in its obsession with winning a defeat in Iraq. Now that their attempt to torpedo things there have failed, they have a new place to try.