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May 19, 2004
Check out Omar's conversation with
Check out Omar's conversation with a taxi driver in Baghdad today on Iraq the Model.
Stories such as these are encouraging. But as Glenn Reynolds comments today, "...we're in a situation where it's likely that lots of stuff is going on beneath the surface that we don't and can't know about. Add to that the tendency of the media reporting from Iraq to focus on superficially bad news, at the expense of both good news and non-superficial bad news, and it's really hard to tell what's going on."
No kidding. Half of the stories make it seem like we're going to prevail, the other half are gloom and doom. Arnaud de Borshgrave has a typically gloomy editorial in today's Washington Times. My temptation is to believe the former. But I must admit that part of this is simply because the failure is so unthinkable.
Posted by Tom at May 19, 2004 4:16 PM
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