Great news from the - get this! - NYTimes
Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, both of the Brookings Institution, have often been vehemently against Bush and his work in Iraq. Until now. They just got back from that beleaguered nation, and they have this to say:
Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
“[T]he surge cannot go on forever,” they say, “But there is enough good happening on the battlefields of Iraq today that Congress should plan on sustaining the effort at least into 2008.”
This good news isn’t from some wacko conservative rag. It’s from the New York Times.
Posted by Harrison Scott Key on Jul 30, 07 02:42 PM on the WorldMagBlog
Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
“[T]he surge cannot go on forever,” they say, “But there is enough good happening on the battlefields of Iraq today that Congress should plan on sustaining the effort at least into 2008.”
This good news isn’t from some wacko conservative rag. It’s from the New York Times.
Posted by Harrison Scott Key on Jul 30, 07 02:42 PM on the WorldMagBlog
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1 Comments:
Its not so odd that the New York Times or any other "liberal" outlet(as you all would call them) has a story like this. Its odd that for the most part, most of the right wing, conservative outlets have not told the entire story of the Iraq War up to this point(this blog included). I rarely watch Fox, but I still found out somehow about all of the accomplishments the US was making in Iraq as well as the difficulties. How does the right wing criticize the left for not telling the entire story when they do not do it themselves? The NY Times article is only news because it has been so bad over in Iraq. If the right can promote a story about how the situation is in Iraq now, what does that say for how the situation was prior? People just want the truth. You cant withhold bad information hoping that some good will come along or vice versa. How about both sides just tell people what is going on and let them decide for themselves how well things are going? With all that has gone on over the years, where are the other stories on this blog about the war? We have an occupying force of over 200,000 soldiers in Iraq, how long do you think we can maintain that? And if that is what it takes, how is that success?
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