Agreed. My dad used to tell me stories of journalists interviewing each other in Belfast and in the Middle East. This is at least part of the problem. Another part is that we don't have enough Arabic speakers. Yet another is that we didn't listen to the people who did have a clue.
Dana On 8/16/05, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As for control of the territory -- do *we* have it? I think not. Yeah, > >we crushed Fallujah. Did we crush the insurgents there? I am not sure. > >Maybe they had the resources to get out. Maybe all we did was make a > >lot of civilians homeless. This is all speculation of course. I don't > >really know. > > No, we didn't crush them, but we removed their grip on the town. > > >The thing that is scary is that I suspect the people running the > >American side of this don't know either. > > > >I remember seeing some stories about a reporter from, I think the > >Washington Post, who went over there with an Arabic speaker, and the > >story he was getting from the Iraqi troops (on our side) was vastly > >different than what was coming out through official channels. Sorry, I > >don't have a link. > > The biggest problem right now is the lack of on the ground reporting. An old > friend of mine who is a journalist (and a raving liberal who makes most > people on this list look like moderates) told me that a friend of his father > (also a journalist) was killed in Iraq covering the war. The insurgents are > targeting journalists specifically, so most journalists never get outside the > Green Zone in Baghdad, and therefore we get a very limited picture of what is > going on. > > There are some Iraqi publications online, even some in english, if you can > find them. I read a few things and found them relatively low on reporting and > high on opinion, which is no better than what our media is giving us. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Now thereâs a better way to fax. eFax makes it possible to use your existing email account to send and receive faxes. Try eFax free. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=63 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169763 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
