Posted by Tina Grazier
People are beginning to notice…theres been a void, a remarkable absence of messagewhat in the world has happened to the hammering negative news about the war in Iraq??? Its off the front pages and off the top of every fifteen minute news segmentwhat happened?
Looks like there might be a very promising story to tellbut the news is all GOOD:
A Glaring Omission, by Abe Greenwald Commentary Magazine
After years of telling us the war on terror was creating more terrorists, the mainstream media has mysteriously woken up to the fact that Islamic extremism is on the wane. Newsweek is the latest publication to run a support-for-jihad-is-fading piece. Readers of CONTENTIONS should by now be familiar with the evidence: Iraqis have turned against radical clerics, Pakistani voters have rejected Islamist leaders, Turkeys ruling AKP party is trying to modernize Islam, etc. The critical thing is the shift in Islam, not the acknowledgment from Newsweek, of course. ** But there is an important omission in the sudden coverage of moderate Muslims: No one talks about the effect of the Iraq War. The MSM can dodge the issue all they like, but the fact remains that the Coalitions toppling of Saddam facilitated the first organized rejection of fanatical Islam in the Middle East. Back in November 2005, while everyone stateside was crying fiasco, a group of Sunnis in Anbar province joined forces with a clutch of U.S. Marines and began to wrest their country back from al-Qaeda and its sympathizers. That effort grew into a statewide political movement that saw AQI on the run within two years. The Sunni Awakening in itself would not have been enough to stave off the deadly threat of extremism in Iraq. Without Prime Minister al-Malikis commitment to take on fanatical Shia militias, both the indiscriminate killing and the political torpor would have continued to hamper any truly national progress.
Stay tuned and start digging in the closet for the fireworks and buntingwhen we do welcome home the last of our troops it should be in celebration of a job well done…some of us might want to reconsider our opinion of the Comander-in-Chief too.