Investor’s Business Daily - Iraq’s Golden Silence
Here’s an editorial from Investor’s Business Daily talking about something that I’ve taken notice to recently… the no news is good news trend in the mainstream media when it comes to the Iraq War.
Some of the good news that is being ignored or played down:
• On Monday came news that U.S. military deaths in Iraq fell to 64 in September, the fourth straight drop since peaking at 121 in May and driving the toll to a 14-month low.• Civilian deaths also have plunged, dropping by more than half from August to 884. Remember just six months ago all the talk of an Iraqi “civil war”? That seems to be fading.
• The just-ended holy month of Ramadan in Iraq was accompanied by a 40% drop in violence, even though al-Qaida had vowed to step up attacks.
• Speaking of al-Qaida, the terrorist group appears to be on the run, and possibly on the verge of collapse — despite making Iraq the center of its war for global hegemony and a new world order based on precepts of fundamentalist Islam.
• Military officials say U.S. troops have killed Abu Usama al-Tunisi, a Tunisian senior leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who was responsible for bringing foreign fighters into the country. Not surprisingly, the pace of foreign fighters entering Iraq has been more than halved from the average of 60 to 80 a month.
• Last month, 1,200 Iraqis waited patiently in line in Iraq’s searing heat to sign up to fight al-Qaida. They will join an estimated 30,000 volunteers in the past six months — a clear sign the tide has turned in the battle for average Iraqis’ hearts and minds.
• Finally, and lest you think it’s all death and destruction, there’s this: Five million Iraqi children returned to school last week, largely without incident, following their summer vacations.
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know my position on this. You should always try to find the real story about what is going on in the world beyond what’s being said in the New York Times, LA Times, Philly Inquirer, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NPR…
Hat Tip: Instapundit
