Good News From Iraq
Dean
Got a note from Art Chrenkoff this morning:
Dear Dean
The fact that so many people, and not just the Sunni sheikhs, now want the piece of the Iraqi action perhaps tells us more about the true situation and future prospects in Iraq than most current news reports. As the old saying goes; victory has many fathers, defeat is an orphan. That the waiting room of the Middle Eastern maternity ward is getting increasingly crowded with paternity claimants is a good - if an indirect sign - that the things in Iraq might be going better than one would think based on the mainstream media coverage.
Of course. Despite an unparalleled string of history-making successes, the news media has as usual given us little but fear and death and despair when it comes to Iraq. Although I'll give them some credit: after having the undeniably stunning success of the Iraqi elections rubbed in their faces, many of the news media suddenly seem to have decided that maybe they can find something positive to say after all.
I assume it's short-lived, but I'll take fair-weather patriotism over no patriotism at all I guess.
Anyway, everybody: be sure to click here to read Art Chrenkoff's Good News From Iraq: Part 22.
(50 lashes with a wet noodle for any twit who comments without clicking the link and reading it first.)
* Update * Oh, and don't miss Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's editorial in this morning's Wall Street Journal: The Task Ahead.
