October 18, 2005

The MSM's "Herd Mentality" on Iraq

Ralph Peters in the NY Post today:

The greatest tragedy imaginable for our "mainstream media" would be to have to admit that President Bush was right about Iraq.

A startling number of editors and opinion columnists have been wrong about every development in Iraq (and Afghanistan). First, they predicted a bloody, protracted war against Saddam's military. Then they predicted civil war. They insisted that Iraq's first elections would fail amid a bloodbath. Then they declared that Iraq's elected delegates would not be able to agree on a draft constitution. Next, they thundered that Iraq's Sunni Arabs wouldn't vote.

Most recently, the sages of the opinion pages declared that the proposed constitution would be defeated at the polls by the Sunni Arabs. All along they've displayed a breathtaking empathy with the Islamist terrorists who slaughter the innocent, giving Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a pass while attacking our president and mocking the achievements of our troops.

A herd mentality has taken over the editorial boards. Ignoring all evidence to the contrary, columnists write about our inevitable "retreat" from Iraq, declaring that "everyone knows" our policies have no chance of success.

That isn't journalism. It's wishful thinking on the part of those who need Iraq to fail to preserve their credibility.

I wonder how this current generation of "journalists" would have viewed the prospect of invading Nazi-occupied France and liberating Europe. But then, since no one will ever refer to them as the "greatest generation" why should anyone expect them to behave as one deserving of such praise?

Posted by: Gary at 10:40 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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1 It's totally true that the MSM is wayy to easy. And when something is genuinely concerning, they just ignore it because it suits them. I was watching this BBC documentary and they said that Al-Qaeda were attempting to procure weapons and other long-range delivery systems from the Russians, also that they were using Russian engineering to create "rocket-based propulsion" engines. They also claim that Al-Qaeda had GPS jamming equipment loaded into satellites, and they activated it in the beginning of the war on terror, paralysing our troops for a time, before we knocked it out. Why hasn't the MSM picked up on this, that Al-qaeda had space-based weapons and concrete ways to deliver them? Why hasn't there been a formal investigation and sanctions put against the Russians for aiding Al-qaeda in their space program? If Al-qaeda has space-based weapons, including satellite-mounted nuclear weapons, the war on terror cannot stop on Earth, as our safety is not from the ground, but from the sky. We need to press harder, and completely support our troops.

Posted by: Steve H. at October 18, 2005 07:44 PM (BZSai)

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