Senior counterinsurgency adviser Col. Bob Crowley noted that “every data point was altered to present the best picture possible … Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.”
But while the hard truths of war are still in evidence, what’s missing is the non-stop negative news coverage of the conflicts. Another thing’s missing: There are no protesters. No drum beaters at the White House. No mass protests in Europe.
Poor Cindy Sheehan isn't feeling the love anymore. Not from Democrats. Not from the media. Not even from other protesters.
Remember that nasty Iraq War?
Well, this may come as a huge surprise, but it’s still going on. A recent spike in bombings in stories buried deeply in the Washington Post proves it.
And that conflict in Afghanistan? Oh, it’s still going on, too.
Just the other day, an air strike on a couple of fuel trucks hijacked by the Taliban was hit by an allied air strike, resulting in 90 casualties, including a large group of civilians.
Then there are the “lurid photos” – as described by the Wall Street Journal – of Afghan guards and embassy workers mucking about like drunken frat boys. Shades of Abu Ghraib? Nah. Not when Democrats control the government.
But while the hard truths of war are still in evidence, what’s missing is the non-stop negative news coverage of the conflicts. Obviously, during the Obama administration negative news just doesn’t resonate the way negative news did during the Bush administration because, well, because it was the Bush administration.
Another thing’s missing: There are no protesters. No drum beaters at the White House. No mass protests in Europe.
It makes you wonder whether all those crazy parades were protests against war after all.
Homeland Security announced that the United States is not engaged in a “War on Terror.” At the same time, President Obama and the rest of the Democrat party declared war on American citizens, calling them “angry mobs,” “hooligans” and “civic vigilantes.”
While Fox News is covering car chases and missing girls and MSNBC is trying resurrect Air America on their network, much more important news is going around the world, virtually unreported, or at least underreported, by all U.S. networks. The best way to really learn what’s really going on in the world is to go to directly to the source. Yet it often requires translation. Thank God for Memri.org that non-profit organization providing translations of the Middle East media.
One recent story is a translation of the General Commander of the Iranian Army Ataollah Salehi who claims that It Will Take Us 11 Days “to Wipe Israel Out of Existence.”
Memri.org also includes a translation of the video into English, repeated here:
Following are excerpts of statements by Iranian military commanders, from a TV report which aired on LBC TV on May 3, 2009.