Sunday, June 01, 2008

Don't Look now, but we may be Winning

...and even the Washington Post is noticing.
THERE'S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks -- which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched with astonishment as the Iraqi government and army have gained control for the first time of the port city of Basra and the sprawling Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, routing the Shiite militias that have ruled them for years and sending key militants scurrying to Iran. At the same time, Iraqi and U.S. forces have pushed forward with a long-promised offensive in Mosul, the last urban refuge of al-Qaeda. So many of its leaders have now been captured or killed that U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, renowned for his cautious assessments, said that the terrorists have "never been closer to defeat than they are now."
The only fault I would find with this is the surprise in the lull in Iraqi news coverage in the MSM since the MSM has been rooting for us to lose all along. Whatever. I'm glad the WaPo is finally getting a clue. Maybe they'll start doing human interest stories from Iraq instead of ghoulish body counts. They could interview this little fellow, perhaps.


Photo taken from US Torture and Atrocities.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting flag. I'm kind of surprised that you're showing a picture of a boy waving a Ba'athist era one though (1991-2004).

The writing on it, proclaiming "God is great", is done in a script that was supposedly Saddam's hand writing. The new flag, since 2004, has a more generic script.

Incidentally, the hoist is one the wrong side too. Flags with Arabic script have the hoist to the right of the obverse.

The boy is obviously one of those 'tail-enders' we heard about. I trust the wee scallywag is now in Abu Ghraib.

K T Cat said...

Wow, an outdated flag. I guess that cinches it. We're losing.

Anonymous said...

Yes, outdated. In much the same way as a neo-Nazi with a swastika in Berlin would be outdated.

Or perhaps as a Klan meeting with a Confederate flag would be out dated.

Just more subtle.