http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/435eywri.asp
Bill Roggio is well-known for his mainly anti-terrorism blog, The Fourth Rail. He has great knowledge of general military matters as well, as this article demonstrates. Note to John Simpson: read this article. This is called REPORTING and its what you and the hundreds of other soppy morons at the BBC are actually paid to do. Find out the facts, and then relay them in simple English to the public. They can then decide what spin if any they wish to put on the situation. If you start off with spin, and continue to spin and end with spin, we the public only know what John Simpson thinks. We aren't any clearer about what is really happening in Iraq.
"While the number of car bombings has increased, their effectiveness has decreased." Thats a useful thing to know. And one you would never get from the BBC who seem to be obsessed with not telling us the facts of this insurgency. The upper echelons of the BBC, probably all old hippies, seem to think that understanding a war is the same as morally agreeing to it taking place. They therefore do not expect their journos to actually get to grips with the various combatant groups, how the war is being fought, what the PR positions of the various parties are and what the politics of the combatant groups are.
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq. The MSM are obsessed with these anniversarys. I watched a long rambling incoherent report on ITV, who buy in their news from ITN. I have rarely witnessed such shoddy journalism. Early on, there was an extremely short interview with a family who had been evicted from their home so that a new COP (combat operations post) could be established in their neighborhood. COP's are like little forts that are used to dominate ground and deprive the insurgents and militia's of easy movement and deployment. They are absolutely essential in Baghdad, where large swathes of the suburbs are not currently under government control. The growing network of COP's is a big part of the new strategy. Sad though it may be for the one family who had to move so a COP could be built, for two or three thousand people it could mean the difference between permanently living in fear, and resuming a normal life. Where was this simple but crucial fact in the ITN report? Completely absent.
There was a two-question interview with Mr Maliki. The idiot journalist prefaced his first question with "I've only been in the country a few days..." and then in his post-interview analysis mocked Mr Maliki's answer for being Polyannaish and naive! Mr Maliki has been living in Iraq all his life, and is sitting atop a mountain of information, but its him who is naive and looking at the world through rose-tinted specs. Right! Because he refused to answer in a manner which pays homage to the "Doomed, doomed, we're all doomed!" MSM tropes, he's a lying stooge of the Americans.
I fantasize about recording all the amatuerish, inaccurate broadcast news reports, and forcing their creators to watch them again when all their dismal prognostications have been contradicted by the passage of time. Unfortunately, having met some of these people personally, I know what boundless reserves of denial and shamelessness these people have. Just like Bill Clinton, he can excuse every bit of laziness and bad judgement throughout his eight years in office with ease. It would be a pointless exercise.
Fortunately for me, there are now a whole host of Bill Roggio's, Michelle Malkins, Michael Tottens and Michael Fumento's who are doing the job the MSM gave up. I thank the lord every day for that.
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